Vacationers on the Beach at Trouville, 1864, Eug?ne-Louis Boudin, French, 1824 - 1898, 26 1/2 x 41 in. (67.31 x 104.14 cm) (canvas)35 7/8 x 50 1/4 x 4 in. (91.12 x 127.64 x 10.16 cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, France, 19th century, This is one of Eug?ne Boudin's many paintings of the Normandy coast in northern France. Around 1862 Boudin began working at Trouville, a summer resort served by the new train lines from Paris. There, well-to-do city dwellers enjoyed a new type of vacation: the beach holiday. Some people actually swam (wearing the daring new bathing costumes), but many gathered just to enjoy the sea air and socialize. Boudin's beach scenes, a new subject for painting, sold rapidly to Paris collectors. Most were smaller than this - just the size for Parisian parlors.