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Eugène Boudin

1824 - 1898

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Eugène Louis Boudin (French: [øʒɛn lwi budɛ̃]; 12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "King of the skies". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugène Boudin is the 204th most popular painter (down from 151st in 2019), the 677th most popular biography from France (down from 466th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Painter.

Eugène Boudin is most famous for his paintings of the seashore and landscapes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Eugène Boudin ranks 204 out of 2,023. Before him are Agostino Carracci, Niko Pirosmani, Maurice Utrillo, Johannes Itten, Han van Meegeren, and Lucas Cranach the Younger. After him are Thomas Gainsborough, Hendrik Goltzius, Sonia Delaunay, Francis Picabia, Rosso Fiorentino, and Charles-François Daubigny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Eugène Boudin ranks 9. Before him are Alexandre Dumas fils, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Kirchhoff, Stonewall Jackson, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Maria Alexandrovna. After him are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Paul Broca, Dayananda Saraswati, Pierre Janssen, Carl Reinecke, and Wilkie Collins. Among people deceased in 1898, Eugène Boudin ranks 12. Before him are Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Johann Jakob Balmer, Syed Ahmad Khan, Ivan Shishkin, and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Ferdinand Cohn, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Garnier, Félicien Rops, and Theodor Fontane.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Boudin ranks 677 out of 6,770. Before him are Auguste de Marmont (1774), William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071), Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Frontinus (30), and Alfred Jarry (1873). After him are Chlodomer (495), Lucien Febvre (1878), Jean Nicot (1530), Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (-90), Robert Hossein (1927), and Paul Bocuse (1926).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Eugène Boudin ranks 54. Before him are Maurice de Vlaminck (1876), Gustave Caillebotte (1848), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), Suzanne Valadon (1865), Aristide Maillol (1861), and Maurice Utrillo (1883). After him are Francis Picabia (1879), Charles-François Daubigny (1817), Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), Jan Gossaert (1478), Raoul Dufy (1877), and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824).

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