The Beach
Framed: 15 1/8 x 19 3/8 x 1 1/4 inches (38.42 x 49.21 x 3.18 cm)
Regards sur une collection: XIXe–XXe siècles, Galerie Schmit, Paris, May 13–July 18, 1981, no. 5, as Sur la plage de Trouville.
The Bloch Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June–August 1982, no cat.
Manet to Matisse: Impressionist Masters from the Marion and Henry Bloch Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9–September 9, 2007, no. 3, as The Beach (La plage).
Painters and Paper: Bloch Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 20, 2017–March 11, 2018, no cat.
With Galerie Cadart et Luquet, Paris, by October 15, 1867 [1];
Hembert collection, Paris;
With Raphaël Gérard, Paris, by 1963 [2];
With Rogers and Co., by December 7, 1966 [3];
Purchased from Rogers and Co. at Barbizon and Nineteenth-Century Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Sotheby’s, London, December 7, 1966, lot 98, as La Plage à Trouville, by H. M. Cohen, 1966 [4];
With Galerie Schmit, Paris, by February 17, 1981–March 26, 1981 [5];
Purchased from Galerie Schmit by Marion (née Helzberg, 1931–2013) and Henry (1922–2019) Bloch, Shawnee Mission, KS, March 26, 1981–June 15, 2015;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.
NOTES:
[1] Alfred Cadart (1828–1875) and Jules Joseph Luquet (b. 1824) formed a partnership in October 1863. They published etchings and operated a gallery together at 79 rue de Richelieu until October 15, 1867, when they dissolved their partnership. In November 1867, Cadart went into business with Léandre Luce at 58 rue Neuve-des-Mathurins. See Monique Nonne, “Alfred Cadart (1828–1875), marchand de tableaux modernes,” Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art français (2009): 363–73; and Janine Bailly-Herzberg, L’Eau-forte de peintre au dix-neuvième siècle: La Société́ des Aquafortistes, 1862–1867, vol. 1 (Paris: Leonce Laget, 1972), 252.
[2] Raphaël Louis Félix Gerard (1886–1963) passed away in 1963.
[3] For confirmation that the dealer “Rogers and Co.” consigned The Beach to Sotheby’s, see email from Carly Murphy, Sotheby’s, to Brigid M. Boyle, NAMA, September 17, 2020, NAMA curatorial files. The consignor may have been T. Rogers and Co. Ltd, London, a packing and shipping agency that sometimes sold pictures at auction on behalf of clients. However, the records of T. Rogers and Co. do not extend back to the 1960s, so it has not been possible to confirm this identification; see email from Wil Russell, T. Rogers and Co., to Brigid M. Boyle, NAMA, October 15, 2020, NAMA curatorial files.
[4] For confirmation that H. M. Cohen purchased The Beach, see email from Carly Murphy, Sotheby’s, to Brigid M. Boyle, NAMA, September 17, 2020, NAMA curatorial files. Murphy did not know Cohen’s full name or city of residence.
[5] See email from Robert Schmit, Galerie Schmit, to Henry Bloch, February 17, 1981, NAMA curatorial files.
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Brigid M. Boyle, “Eugène Boudin, The Beach, ca. 1865, and Trouville, Beach Scene, 1874,” catalogue entry, and Rachel Freeman, “Eugène Boudin, The Beach, ca. 1865,” technical entry in Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, ed., French Paintings, 1600–1945: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2021), https://doi.org/10.37764/78973.5.602.
