“A pioneer in paint,” by David Platzer

“A pioneer in paint,” by David Platzer

Paris’s Musée Marmottan Monet, which owns the world’s largest collection of Monets, is now presenting an exhibition of Eugène Boudin (1824–98). Monet praised Boudin, who was his senior by sixteen years, as the man who taught him everything he knew. As an adolescent, Monet turned out caricatures, and the exhibition includes a selection of Monet’s juvenilia in this genre. Boudin encouraged the young Monet to turn to landscape and paint outside in …