View in Venice-The Grand Canal

Place

A photograph of water and buildings, with a gondola and many plain wood posts as well as blue and white diagonally striped posts.

Mooring Posts, 2012. © Cassi Yost

Having begun his artistic career as a Realist painter, depicting scenes as truthfully as possible, Manet interpreted blue and white mooring posts as seen in this photo in a looser, more painterly style.