Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin (1910)
Duret, Théodore, 1838-1927, Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford), tr · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 96
positions near thecombatants as soon as it was known that the attack was aboutto be made. Manet, having been informed beforehand of thecoming encounter, went to Cherbourg and watched the actionfrom a pilot-boat. Thus his picture presents a scene of which hewas an actual spectator. Having spent a… … COMBAT DU KEARSAGE ET DE LALABAMA MANET LE BON BOCK 63 the shore or from a boat, with the eye nearly level with thewater. In his Combat du Kearsage et de VAlabama the sea riseslike a liquid plane to the horizon, where the two ships are seenfighting enveloped in a cloud of smoke, the vanquished…
