Eugène Boudin

French painter (1824-1898)

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Lived 1824–1898, aged 74France

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France rank#51
Artists rank#133
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1824–1898
Aged 74

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Updated 2026-06-01

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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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. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "King of the skies".

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