Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was being ...
With portraits the artist made of the people closest to him, the exhibition tunes into the details of his private life In 1863, Édouard Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, his well-to-do family’s piano ...
Around halfway into Manet & Morisot at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the paintings of Édouard Manet (1832-83) and Berthe Morisot (1841-95) begin to look surprisingly alike. The two French ...