TheKearsarge_TheMET
Édouard Manet French, 1832-1883
The Kearsarge at Boulogne
Oil on canvas 1864
During the Civil War, a corvette of the United State Navy, the Kearsarge, attacked and sank a Confederate vessel near the French coast in June 1864. The incident received much public attention in Europe and was the subject of Manet’s first painting of a current event, The Battle of the Kearsage and the Alabama ( Philadelphia Museum of Art). Manet seems not to have witnessed the battle at sea, but that July, when he was in Boulogne, he made a point of visiting the victorious ship at anchor. While there he executed a watercolor (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon) on which this painting was probably based.
Partial and Promised Gift of Peter H. Frelinghuysen, and Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, by exchange. Gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rogers and Joanne Toor Cummings, by exchange, and Drue Heinz Trust, The Dillon Fund, The Vincent Astor Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kravis, The Charles Engelhard Foundation, and Florence and Herbert Irving Gifts, 1999
1999.442
From the placard: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
TheKearsarge_TheMET
Édouard Manet French, 1832-1883
The Kearsarge at Boulogne
Oil on canvas 1864
During the Civil War, a corvette of the United State Navy, the Kearsarge, attacked and sank a Confederate vessel near the French coast in June 1864. The incident received much public attention in Europe and was the subject of Manet’s first painting of a current event, The Battle of the Kearsage and the Alabama ( Philadelphia Museum of Art). Manet seems not to have witnessed the battle at sea, but that July, when he was in Boulogne, he made a point of visiting the victorious ship at anchor. While there he executed a watercolor (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon) on which this painting was probably based.
Partial and Promised Gift of Peter H. Frelinghuysen, and Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, by exchange. Gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rogers and Joanne Toor Cummings, by exchange, and Drue Heinz Trust, The Dillon Fund, The Vincent Astor Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kravis, The Charles Engelhard Foundation, and Florence and Herbert Irving Gifts, 1999
1999.442
From the placard: Metropolitan Museum of Art.