Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001297Sea View, Calm Weather (Vue de mer, temps calme)
Inscriptions
Inscribed: Manet (lower right), E.M. (on sail)
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.
Exhibition history
Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Edouard Manet, September 15-December 10, 1989. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for exhibit, "Manet and the Civil War", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 3–August 17, 2003. Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 9 (ill.). Venice, Palazzo Ducale, Manet (1832–1883) and Venice, April 24 – August 18, 2013, cat. 77.
Publications
Leon Leenhoff, Manet: Ensemble de notes et de documents sur le peintre, c. 1910. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Estampes et photographie, RESERVE 8-YB3-2401, p. 80. Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Édouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1975), v. 1, p. 86, no. 78, ill., p. 87. Fritz Novotny, Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780-1880 (New Haven, 1995), pp. 336, 463, fig. 270. The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 9, p. 41 (ill.). Gabriella Belli, Guy Cogeval and Stéphane Guégan, Manet: Ritorno a Venezia (Venice: SKIRA, 2013), 188–89, 191 cat. 78. “Manet, Cat. 3, Sea View, Calm Weather (Vue de mer, temps calme),” in Manet Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), https://publications.artic.edu/manet/reader/manetart/section/140020.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
- Date
- 1864
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73.6 × 92.6 cm (29 × 36 1/2 in.); Framed: 97.8 × 117.2 × 12.7 cm (38 1/2 × 46 1/8 × 5 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.425
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