The Kearsarge at Boulogne [SEP] creator
The Kearsarge at Boulogne
The Kearsarge at Boulogne is an oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet completed in 1864. It depicts the Union cruiser USS "Kearsarge", victor of the Battle of Cherbourg over the rebel privateer CSS "Alabama". The painting is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Although he had not witnessed the battle, Manet visited Cherbourg one month after and painted a watercolour of "Kearsarge", now exhibited in Dijon. The oil painting was probably based on this watercolour.
Manet produced two paintings of the fight, "The Battle of the "Kearsarge" and the "Alabama", now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and " "Kearsarge" at Boulogne", now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. American marine artist Xanthus Smith painted six versions of the naval battle. The most famous of these, a massive work exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, is in the collection of the Union League of Philadelphia.
The 37th album of "Les Tuniques Bleues", titled "Duel