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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
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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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