A couple sails a small wooden boat across flat blue water

A man in a white sailor's outfit and straw boater hat sits at the tiller of a small wooden sailboat, one arm resting on the gunwale and the other extended over the tiller. A woman in a blue-and-white striped dress and a white bonnet trimmed with black ribbon sits in front of him, her back to the viewer. Flat blue water fills the background, and the boat's varnished hull and grey sail cross the right edge. The signature 'Manet' appears at the lower right.

Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was the painter around whom modern French art turned. Trained under Couture and steeped in Velázquez and Goya, he scandalised the Salon with Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe and Olympia (1863), then painted the bars, railways, gardens and flower pieces of contemporary Paris with a flat, direct touch that the Impressionists adopted, though he never exhibited with them. His paintings are held by the Musée d'Orsay, the National Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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