Works by Eugene Boudin June 6, 2007

In honor of the centennial of Gallery benefactor Paul Mellon's birth, a special exhibition of 40 paintings and works on paper by French impressionist Eugene Boudin (1824-1898) has been organized, based on the Gallery's extensive collection of works by the artist, one of the largest and most distinguished in this country, acquired largely through gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. Small-scale paintings of tourists at fashionable Normandy resorts, a suite of six 1858 graphite drawings of the rural Brittany coastal region, carefully worked studies of terrain devoted to shipping and agrarian pursuits and images of peasant laborers and port workers from Normandy and Brittany are among the works presented.