Sketches of Marine Scenes (recto); Two Sketches: Beside Stormy Coast, Cloudy Seascape
Édouard Manet · 1852/83 (recto); c. 1871 (verso) · Watercolor and graphite (recto), and watercolor with traces of graphite, heightened with touches of white gouache (verso), on off-white wove paper
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About this picture
Sketches of Marine Scenes (recto); Two Sketches: Beside Stormy Coast, Cloudy Seascape is a public-domain drawing by Édouard Manet, dated 1852/83 (recto); c. 1871 (verso). Watercolor and graphite (recto), and watercolor with traces of graphite, heightened with touches of white gouache (verso), on off-white wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Sketches of Marine Scenes (recto); Two Sketches: Beside Stormy Coast, Cloudy Seascape” (1852/83 (recto); c. 1871 (verso)) keeps the scale of an old exhibition picture, but the subject is modern Paris: a café, a street, or someone Manet knew.
About the artist
Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was a French painter who kept the scale of old exhibition pictures but painted modern Paris: cafés, streets, and friends. Younger Impressionists looked to him even though he did not join their shows.
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