View in Venice-The Grand Canal
Artist
![A black and white headshot-style photograph of Manet, wearing a suit and a polka dot cravat in front of a blank background.](http://seeingnaturear.site.seattleartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2017/01/Édouard-Manet-Portrait_Nadar.jpg)
Portrait of Edouard Manet (detail), 1874, Nadar (Gaspard Felix Tournachon), French, 1820-1910, black and white photograph
Artist Edouard Manet is known for his fundamental influence on Impressionism, which depicts the light of a given moment using loose brushstrokes and is applied here in View of Venice—The Grand Canal.
However, Manet’s earlier career ambition was to be a naval officer, and though he failed examinations to enlist, his interest in seascapes likely resonated in his depictions of the Venetian Grand Canal.