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Light and air become the subject matter of Impressionist landscape painting.
Eugne Boudin
French, 1824-1898
The River Touques in Summer (La Touques, la rivire en t)
ca.1890
Oil on canvas
Lent by the Steven and Dorothea Green Collection
Born along the northern coast of France, the son of a mariner, Boudin loved views of water and wet, luminous skies. His feeling for light and atmosphere link him to his older friend, Camille Corot, and to the younger Claude Monet, who learned to paint at Boudin's side.
Boudin's peaceful and spacious landscapes, based on simple compositions and painted outdoors, inspired the Impressionists in the 1860s. "We do not reproduce the world so much as the element which envelops it," he said, describing the new landscape painting of the Impressionist era.
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