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Sea View, Calm Weather (Vue de mer, temps calme)

Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)LinkedCulture matchlcp-1088101e6ec3

Date: 1864
Medium: Oil on canvas
Culture: France
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 81535

Although boldly brushed and almost calligraphic in form, the vessels in this composition remain identifiable as specific types. To the right of center, a side-wheel packet steamer heads up the English Channel, leaving slower sailing boats in its wake. This is one of Édouard Manet’s earliest paintings of the sea, a subject to which he returned repeatedly. He painted it in Paris along with two or three other works based on sketches he made on a vacation with his family in the northern French port of Boulogne-sur-Mer.

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Credit line: Potter Palmer Collection
Provenance: The artist; probably sold to Louis Gauthier-Lathuille, Paris, 1881, for 1,000 francs [per transcript in Leenhoff, c. 1910, p. 80]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, February 20, 1900, for 20,000 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book (no. 5699, as La Rade de Boulogne)]; transferred from Durand-Ruel, Paris, to Durand-Ruel, New York, December 1900 [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book (no. 2428, as Marine, la Rade de Boulogne)]; sold to Edward Fullerton Milliken, New York, December 31, 1900, for $10,000; sold, American Art Galleries, New York, February 14, 1902, lot 17, to Knoedler and Co., New York, as agent for Mrs. Bertha Potter Palmer (d. 1918), for $7,050; by descent in the Palmer family; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

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Object type: AAT300033618

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