Mastering the pastel technique perfectly, Eugene Boudin exploited all its possibilities.
This twilight, rendered in rapid and vibrant strokes of color, is a profusion of light and dark, warm and cool hues, all intertwined. The sky and clouds merge in the same play of light, betraying the fleeting nature of the moment and the ceaseless metamorphosis of an unstable and uncertain atmosphere.

It is worth recalling that for the 150th anniversary exhibition of Impressionism in 2024, the Musée d’Orsay chose to present seven pastels by Eugène Boudin. All were devoted to studies of the sky and were displayed opposite Claude Monet’s famous painting “Impression, soleil levant" (Impression, Sunrise), demonstrating Boudin’s profound influence on Monet and the Impressionist movement.