The first book to highlight the French painter's long-standing love affair with the ocean celebrates his fascination in words and images, highlighting the paintings that reflect his knowledge of, and passion for, all things maritime and oceanic. (Fine Arts)

Product Description: Edouard Manet’s Gare Saint-Lazare, a painting he exhibited as Le Chemin de fer (The Railway), has always intrigued as much as it has delighted critics, scholars, and the art-loving public. Shown at the Paris Salon in 1874, the year of the first Impressionist exhibit, this enigmatic work provides a glimpse of the great stone and iron Pont de l’Europe next to the Gare Saint-Lazare where powerful steam engines were sheltered...read more