Eugène Boudin, La plage de Trouville, 1864,
oil on wood, 25.7x48cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Source: Musée d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Le rivage de Deauville was painted in 1896, at the end of the painter's career, as he died in 1898. Landscapes of Deauville were a minority subject in Boudin's career, he having been more interested in Trouville, of which a view of the beach (La plage de Trouville, 1864) is preserved at the Musée d'Orsay.
This painting is, however, a kind of culmination of Boudin's interest in marine subjects. He produced studies of harbors, boats, everyday beach life and natural landscapes. Here, we can see a combination of the painter's various fields of interest, showing the shore, people on the beach and boats, while leaving an important place for landscape work, with the detail of foam and the major space devoted to clouds.