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

- By: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
- Date: 1864
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- 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.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Potter Palmer Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81535)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/8be90e71-83c3-3f98-a972-4acb9ce0e773/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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 Boulogne-sur-Mer.

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