Édouard Manet · 1864
The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama
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A small sailing boat flying the French flag rides the green swell in the foreground while, through the smoke on the horizon, the Union cruiser Kearsarge sinks the Confederate raider Alabama off Cherbourg. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Up to 16 × 17.3 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama
The painting commemorates the Battle of Cherbourg of 19 June 1864, when the Union cruiser USS Kearsarge sank the Confederate raider CSS Alabama off the French coast. Manet had not seen the battle and worked from press accounts. Within a month he had finished the picture, and it was shown in Alfred Cadart's print shop in Paris. Marguerite Charpentier acquired it in 1878. It is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
All Édouard Manet prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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