Trouville, along with neighbouring Deauville, was one of the most popular locations for Boudin to work on his beach and coast scenes. Both places had become fashionable resorts, especially for Parisians, as both towns were then connected directly to Paris by railway. The Empress Eugénie herself favoured the area as shown by Boudin’s painting of her on the beach at Trouville in the Burrell collection in Glasgow.

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