Jérôme Garcin's Notebook: Painters and Writers, All to the Beach!

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The beaches of Boudin

Only the skies are immutable. When you walk along the beaches of Deauville and Trouville, you get the impression that these "beautiful, vast skies tormented by clouds, crumpled with color, deep, captivating," which so inspired Eugène Boudin - "you are a seraph," Gustave Courbet wrote to him - have not moved since he painted them. These marvelous clouds invaded his canvases so much that they seemed to disdain, from above...