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

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Sea View, Calm Weather (Vue de mer, temps calme), 1864. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 73.6 × 92.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism

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Museum title: Sea View, Calm Weather (Vue de mer, temps calme)
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.)
Credit line: Potter Palmer Collection
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1832–1883

Impressionism c. 1860–1900

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.