Eugène Boudin was a French painter from Honfleur in Calvados, Normandy. He was born on July 12, 1824 and died on August 8, 1899. From the age of fourteen, he discovered a passion for drawing. Before really embarking on a career as a painter, he worked as a stationer in his family's store in Le Havre. There, he built up a network of painters, including Constant Troyon, Jean-François Millet and Claude Monet. In 1851, he received a scholarship from the city of Le Havre to study painting in Paris for three years. He then enrolled as a copyist at the Louvre. He then moved to Honfleur, specializing in paintings of harbors, seaside resorts and marine themes. These themes enabled him to create many of the light effects characteristic of the Impressionist movement.