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

Museum record 81535: Sea View, Calm Weather (Vue de mer, temps calme) by Édouard Manet. A verified entry point for discovery.

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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 Boulog…