Showing posts with label CSS Alabama (1862). Show all posts
Showing posts with label CSS Alabama (1862). Show all posts

Monday, January 9, 2017

Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager, Battle of the USS 'Kearsarge' and the CSS 'Alabama'

Date: 1864
Technique: Unknown

The Battle of Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France.

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Édouard Manet, The Battle of the USS 'Kearsarge' and the CSS 'Alabama'

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Date: 1864
Technique: Oil on canvas, 137.8 x 128.9 cm

Manet's first known seascape is an imaginative depiction of an American Civil War naval battle fought off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864. In the distance, the CSS Alabama, a scourge of Union shipping, sinks by her stern, clouds of smoke arising from a direct hit to her engines by the USS Kearsarge, which is mostly obscured from view.

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