I am busy painting views of Venice, a superb town as I have no need to tell you, but somewhat disguised by the usual painters of the area who have to some extent disfigured it by making it appear as a region warmed by the hottest suns...Venice on the other hand, like all luminous regions, is grey in colour, the atmosphere is soft and misty and the sky is decked with clouds just like the sky over Normandy or Holland -- E. Boudin to Durand-Ruel



Eugene Boudin (1824-1898)
Venise, le quai de la Giudecca
Signed, dated, inscribed 'E. Boudin Venise '95' lower right
o/c, 18 1/2" x 25 3/4"



E. Boudin
La plage de Trouville
watercolor over pencil on paper laid on board
6 1/2" x 10 1/4"

Young Dalyrample was sickly.


He invented a complex inner life.