The Dunes at Tourgeville

Eugène Boudin

1880

Gift of Mrs. George R. Robertson in memory of her son, inv. 1920.16

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

A coastal landscape painting depicts a grassy dune area with a distant village and a wide, cloudy sky. Several figures are scattered across the scene, some seated in the grass and others near a horse-drawn cart on the beach. A coastal landscape painting depicts a grassy dune area with a distant village and a wide, cloudy sky. Several figures are scattered across the scene, some seated in the grass and others near a horse-drawn cart on the beach. A coastal landscape painting depicts a grassy dune area with a distant village and a wide, cloudy sky. Several figures are scattered across the scene, some seated in the grass and others near a horse-drawn cart on the beach. Through his young friend, Monet, Boudin’s work became a most significant factor in the development of Impressionism. His own thinking was formulated by the example of the Barbizon School pai