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THÉODORE GUDIN (PARIS 1802-1880 BOULOGNE-SUR-MER)
Lot 89 Property of an American Collector

THÉODORE GUDIN (PARIS 1802-1880 BOULOGNE-SUR-MER)

A seascape

Closed4 July 2023

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THÉODORE GUDIN (PARIS 1802-1880 BOULOGNE-SUR-MER)
A seascape
signed, dated and inscribed ‘T. Gudin Nice 1875’ (lower right)
brush and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, on light brown paper
22 x 31.1 cm (8 5/8 x 12 1/4 in.)

Private collection, England.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 November 2000, lot 150.
with Emmanuel Moatti, Paris and New York (Master Drawings 1600-1900, 2001, no. 35, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.

Specialist note

Dating from the end of Gudin’s career, this small wash drawing was made in Nice in 1875, five years before the artist’s death, when he was focusing on the atmospheric variations of the seascape, and less on narrative subjects he favoured in his youth, such as battle scenes and fires. After his early training in the navy, which left him with a taste for the sea, Gudin joined the studio of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and became friends with Théodore Gericault and Eugène Delacroix. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1822 onwards and quickly completed several commissions for King Louis-Philippe and his family.