Beach at Trouville

Provenance

Dieterle, Paris. Paul Gerson, New York. Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere [d.1940]; (his sale, Christie's, London, 19 December 1941, no. 34); purchased by (Arthur Tooth and Sons, London and Paris) for Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris, by 1952;[1] sold 15 August 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA. [1] According to annotated copy of the sales catalogue in NGA curatorial files. This is almost certainly the picture recorded as Boudin, "At Deauville" in Arthur Tooth records, volume XXI, London Branch Stock Inventory, p. 85 (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, accession no. 860679), which was sold with another Rothermere picture to Molyneux on the day of the Christie's sale.

Beach at Trouville

Boudin, Eugène

1864/1865

Accession Number

1970.17.12

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall (including surrounding strips of wood, approx. .005): 27 x 49.1 cm (10 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.) | framed: 41.3 x 63.3 x 9.5 cm (16 1/4 x 24 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection