I dare not think of the sun-drenched beaches and the stormy skies, and of the joy of painting them in the sea breezes.

Quote in a letter, from Paris 14 June 1869, to family-friend Ferdinand Martin; as cited by Colin B. Bailey in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publisher, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 7

Boudin felt himself detained in the big city Paris and longed fort the beach