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Everything that is painted directly and on the spot always has strength, a power, and a vivacity of touch one cannot recover in the studio... Three strokes of the brush in front of nature are worth more than two days of work at the easel [in the studio].

Eugène Boudin

If you have passed one month among the people condemned to hard work in the fields, with black bread and water, and you then find that gang of golden parasites ['nos petites poupées', he called the women from Paris; the rich and super-rich to spend their summers in Deauville and Trouville.] with such a triumphant air, you can't help feeling a bit of pity.

Eugène Boudin

Nature is richer than I represent it... Nature is so beautiful that when I am not tortured by poverty I am tortured by her splendor. How fortunate we are to be able to see and admire the glories of the sky and earth; if only I could be content just to admire them. But there is always the torment of struggling to reproduce them, the impossibility of creating anything within the narrow limits of painting.

Eugène Boudin

Eugène Boudin

Eugène Boudin

Born: July 12, 1824

Died: August 8, 1898 (aged 74)

Bio: Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores.

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