Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was passionate about the sea. Before becoming a painter, he spent six months at sea, and, like many Europeans of his era, he took numerous seaside holidays. Manet made his public debut as a marine painter at the Paris Salon of 1864 with The Battle of the U.S.S. "Kearsarge" and the C.S.S. "Alabama," his dramatic depiction of a U.S. Civil War naval battle off the coast of France, and he continued to paint seascapes throughout his career. These extraordinary works clearly reflect his intimate knowledge of and love for maritime vessels and the sea. Manet and the Sea is the first book to highlight the French master's beautiful and varied seascapes. Essays by leading scholars discuss how Manet completely overturned the established academic conventions of marine painting in France.

Foreword

ANNE D'HARNONCOURT, JAMES N. WOOD, AND JOHN LEIGHTON

Acknowledgments

Introduction

JOSEPH J. RISHEL AND DOUGLAS W. DRUICK

Manet and the Dutch Marine Tradition

LLOYD DEWITT

Marine Painting in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France

JOHN ZAROBELL

The Sea as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France

GLORIA GROOM

Manet and the Sea

JULIET WILSON-BAREAU AND DAVID DEGENER

Gustave Courbet

JOSEPH J. RISHEL

Johan Barthold Jongkind

JOHN ZAROBELL

Eugene Boudin

JOHN ZAROBELL

James McNeill Whistler

RICHARD DORMENT

Claude Monet

JOHN LEIGHTON

Berthe Morisot

BILL SCOTT

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

JOSEPH J. RISHEL

Eva Gonzales

ANN TEMKIN

Chronology

JENNIFER L. VANIM AND JOHN ZAROBELL

Bibliography

Index of Names and Places