BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly described ...
Eva Gonzalès was not only lucky enough to be born in Paris in the 1840s, at a time when the city’s art world was experiencing a profound artistic revolution, but to be born to parents who allowed her ...
When institutional acclaim plucked French impressionist Berthe Morisot from relative obscurity six years ago, the tradition of situating her in relation to famed male colleagues like Renoir and Degas ...
An exhibition sets out to rescue Morisot from the assumption that she was under Manet’s influence, but it's far from academic ...
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Édouard Manet was infatuated with all things Spanish — and especially Spain’s greatest painter Art is inseparable from society, but the two things don’t seem to progress in lockstep. The relationship ...
Edouard Manet, The Balcony, 1868-1869. Oil on canvas, 66 15/16 x 49 3/16 in. (170 x 125 cm). Musée d’Orsay, bequest Gustave Caillebotte, 1894. © RMN-Grand Palais ...
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Paris Museum Puts Édouard Manet on Mock Trial for Painting a Scandalous Scene of a Nude Woman
The title of Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass in English) sounds innocent enough, but the 1863 painting generated quite the scandal in 19th-century Paris. In the ...
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