Eugène Boudin (1824 Honfleur - 1898 Paris) Fishing boat on a Normandy beach Boudin is considered a pioneer of Impressionism and one of the first open-air painters. After 1850, he belonged to an artists' colony near Honfleur with Gustave Courbet, Johan Barthold Jongkind and Claude Monet. In 1874, he took part in the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris, which, in addition to Monet, included works by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas. Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Pencil/paper. R. and blue monogram stamp (Lugt 828). 15.9 cm x 23.5 cm. Provenance: German private collection. Pencil on paper. Stamped with monogram "E.B" (Lugt 828).