# Seaside, Port of Honfleur

- By: Eugène Louis Boudin (French, 1824-1898)
- Date: c. 1860
- Medium: Pastel on blue wove paper
- Classification: Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions: 18.5 × 25.9 cm (7 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Helmuth Bartsch Endowment
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/187703)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/68679127-b7b5-6359-dbca-9d1635f6280b/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Boudin was a native of Honfleur, one of the most picturesque harbor communes in the French region of Normandy. Self-taught, he started experimenting with pastel in the 1850s. This sort of landscape, likely made en plein air, would prove extremely influential to the young Claude Monet.

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