About This Artwork

Eugène-Louis Boudin
French, 1824-1898

Washerwomen at the Edge of the Pond, 1880/85

Oil on panel
7 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (18.4 x 24.8 cm)
Inscribed lower left: E. Boudin
Gift of William Hobson Green, 1978.108

Schmit, Robert 1436

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824–1898 (Paris, 1973), vol. 2, p. 67, no. 1436, ill.

Ownership History

Diot, Paris [according to Schmit, 1973]. Leicester Galleries, London [according to label on reverse]. G. H. Cross, London; his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, March 28, 1973, lot 3, to Arte Moderna. Galerie M. Rousso, Paris [according to a letter from William Hobson Green dated January 24, 1977(for 1978) in curatorial file; stated that he had acquired the picture from Rousso “several years ago”]; sold to William Hobson Green, River Forest, Illinois; given to the Art Institute, 1978.