of therigging of a vessel. He is full of the poetry of thesea and knows all the technique of navigation. It must not be imagined that this art of Boudins,so sane, so clear, so direct in treatment, wasappreciated at once, and that the artist achievedwhile in his youth the full success which was… … Eiigtne Bondin from not knowing till quite late in life the meaningof success. The son of a pilot at Honfieur, Boudin was bornat Havre. He spent much of his youth on thewater, and learnt to love and to know the sea andthe sailors life. Later he entered the establishmentof a stationer in Rouen, and…
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