Venice, Santa Maria della Salute from San Giorgio

In January 1899, five months after Eugène Boudin's death, the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris opened a memorial exhibition of his work, and this canvas hung in it as number 51. The catalogue gave it a plain working title, a view of Venice taken from San Giorgio, morning effect. Boudin had first come to Venice in 1892, at 68, and he painted this on a later visit in 1895. He looked from the island of San Giorgio Maggiore across the open basin to the dome of Santa Maria della Salute, a view he painted at least three times. At the exhibition the picture belonged to Allard and Noël, a Paris gallery. By 1919 it was in Boston with Robert Edwards, who collected with his sisters Hannah and Grace in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. His bequest brought it to the Museum of Fine Arts in 1925.