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| | Manet and the Sea |
 | | Although Manet, in Paris at the time, did not witness this celebrated episode in the American Civil War, he was inspired to paint an imaginary view of the event, reconstructing it from the well-publicized accounts he had seen in the press. |
 | | His depiction of the conflict, The Battle of the U.S.S. "Kearsarge" and the C.S.S. "Alabama," was first exhibited in July 1864 in the windows of the gallery of Alfred Cadart, an important French print publisher whose gallery was frequented by many of the artists included in the exhibition. |
 | | In his two treatments of The Escape of Rochefort, one now in the Zurich Kunsthaus and the other in the Musée dOrsay, Paris, the boat drifts without masts and sails as if rocked by the tides of fate; the figure of Rochefort looks out with wonderment and foreboding. |
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