“The True Cradle of Impressionism”: Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet, and the School of Honfleur

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Essay on the colony of artists that formed at Honfleur on the Normandy coast. It shifts the focus away from Paris as the birth-place of impressionism and discusses the importance of Eugene Boudin in bringing together the artists such as Courbet, Troyon, Jongkind and Monet who, through example and collaboration anticipated many of the key aspects of Impressionism.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTowards Impressionism: Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet
EditorsSuzanne Greub
PublisherHirmer Verlag
Pages57-76
ISBN (Print)978-3-7774-2973-1
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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