The Green Wave  1867

When this early seascape debuted at the 1879 Impressionist exhibition, one critic remarked that it was "directly influenced by [url=http://useum.org/artist/Edouard-Manet]Manet[/url]." The handling of paint and composition, especially the high horizon line, echo Manet's two depictions of American warships, The [i]"Kearsarge" at Boulogne[/i] (1999.442) and [i]The Battle of t...