Everything that is painted directly and on the spot has always a strength, a power, a vivacity of touch which one cannot recover in the studio… three strokes of a brush in front of nature are worth more than two days of work at the easel.
— Eugène Boudin
Birthday to Eugène Boudin one of the first plain-air painters whom Corot calledthe master of the sky and Monet considered his first teacher :) He was born on 12th July 1824.
Eugène Boudin at Deauville-Trouville, June 1896