Eugéne Boudin, now in his sixty-fifth year, has continued to exhibit at the official Salon.
His beach scenes still sell well, but he receives little recognition until 1888, when the French government begins to buy a few of his works for the Luxembourg Gallery.
Images
Eugène Boudin: "Landscape with Sunset,"(between 1880 and 1890) watercolor, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.