Deux canots échoués He spent his childhood and early youth in Le Havre. When he met Boudin, he exhibited at the age of sixteen in Rouen, showing his inclination for drawing, which can be seen in the work “Deux canots échoués” (1857), present in this exhibition. Claude Monet's drawing, part of his brother Michel’s collection, was made in his youth and is no doubt related to the meeting in Honfleur with his first mentors, Éugene Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind. For Monet, the meeting with the two artists was a turning point in his way of seeing landscapes, and this drawing represents an evidence: the static nature, almost academic, of the two boats is released in the vision of the white clouds that open up in the sky, giving a sense of motion and freedom to the drawing and which can easily be linked to Boudin's clouds. Placed in the middle, the clouds are the central theme of the drawing, where it’s easy to recognize Monet's future path, inspired by the motions and modes of nature, which is in continuous evolution, later reaching its peak with the mythical water lilies, a sign of the advent of modern art.