The Beach at Trouville

出生于霍夫勒，是一个水手的儿子，布丁试图描绘他所熟悉的世界：诺曼底海岸的海滩、船只和多变的天空。他还把第二帝国时期涌向特鲁维尔等时尚海滩度假胜地的高雅社会人群作为自己的臣民。尤其是女人们的衣服，在他画的数百幅画布上，色彩鲜艳的图案与蓝色、灰色和米色的范围形成了鲜明的对比，这些蓝色、灰色和米色的范围随着天气条件的变化而变化。在这里，他选择了一个相对较低的角度，使大海几乎看不见，但却突出了风的感觉，画中的人物前面的那只小黑狗正斜倚着。从生活中攫取的场景感，加上生机勃勃的灯光效果，使尤金·布丁成为印象派的先驱，事实上，正是他在莫奈十七岁时将莫奈引入露天绘画。

Born in Honfleur and the son of a sailor, Boudin tried to paint the world he knew so well: the beaches, ships and changeable skies of the Normandy coast. He also took as his subjects the elegant society crowd which flocked to fashionable beach resorts such as Trouville during the Second Empire. The women's clothing in particular provided brightly coloured motifs which contrasted with the range of blues, greys and beiges that changed with the weather conditions in the hundreds of canvases he painted.Here he has chosen a relatively low angle leaving the sea barely visible but accentuating the feeling of the wind, into which the figures and the little black dog in the foreground are leaning. The sense of a scene snatched from life, reinforced by vibrant light effects, makes Eugène Boudin a forerunner of Impressionism, and indeed, it was he who introduced Monet to open air painting when the latter was only seventeen.