Eugène Boudin

To be lauded as ‘the first French landscape painter to paint outdoors’, followed by the label of ‘the master of the sky’, by the great French poet Charles Baudelaire no less, renders the humility and down-to-earth nature of Eugéne Boudin all the more impressive.

Discover the extent to which Dutch 17th century masters influenced Boudin’s work, how he lived with and became a lifelong friend of Claude Monet, and how his art afforded him the luxury of travelling the world - fertile grounds for inspiration and subsequent depiction through the eyes of such a towering talent.