Eugène Boudin (Honfleur, 1824-Deauville, 1898) was one of the first French artists to paint landscapes outside of the studio and is now recognized as one of the most significant French painters of the 19th century and a precursor to Impressionism. Encouraged by Jean-François Millet (Gruchy, 1814-Barbizon, 1875) and Thomas Couture (Senlis, 1815-Villiers-le-Bel, 1879), Eugène Boudin embarked on his artistic career in 1846. He studied first in Le Harve and then in Paris, where he admired the paintings of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (Paris, 1796-Paris, 1875) and met Johan Barthold Jongkind (Lattrop 1819-Saint-Egrève, 1891) and the young Claude Monet (Paris, 1840-Giverny, 1926), whom he introduced to the world of landscape paintings. After painting some rural scenes or still lifes, Eugène Boudin specialized in outdoor scenes, notably seascapes and beaches with groups of bourgeois during the boom of tourism. Our bright and light painting depicts the harbor of Trouville, in Normandy, a quiet place outside of the city where Eugène Boudin enjoyed staying. The present painting, which is in a remarkable state of conservation, comes from an important Swiss private collection.