Nº 58
Reading edition
Louis Eugène Boudin FRENCH: 1824-1898
PORT DE ST. VALERY
Height, 18 inches; width, 14½ inches
It is low water in a narrow estuary. In the foreground on the left various small boats are stranded at the end of a wharf, alongside of which lies a bark with furled sails, apparently discharging her cargo. From the right foreground a placid expanse of water extends to the middle distance, where it is bounded by the houses of a small port and a low grass-covered bank crowned by a row of small trees. The sky is covered with thin, rolling masses of vapor, showing here and there small spots of blue, and the landscape is in an effect of broad, diffused sunlight.
Signed at the lower left, St. Valery, E. Boudin.