Another candidate is Manet himself. Suzanne could have conceived Léon by the young art student while she was his piano teacher. Motivated by a need for discretion, they presented Léon in public ...

On the morning of February 23, 1870, painter Edouard Manet and art critic Edmond Duranty traveled ... that Manet declined to identify with the Realism movement that the author strongly supported.

I would like to argue that Édouard Manet, that gargantuan of the painting craft, whose masterful work bridged the gap between Realism and ... BY ÉDOUARD MANET Edouard Manet, A Parisian Lady, 1883 As ...

Those familiar with Manet’s oeuvre may recognize the two women in Olympia; the artist used both women as ... Émile Zola, the literary father of Realism, summed up Olympia’s effect succinctly ...

Edouard Manet's Madame Manet ... revolution of Romanticism and Realism,” Guégan says. Degas's Les courses à Longchamp (1866) Potter Palmer Collection; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago ...

A pupil and then muse of Édouard Manet, the French painter developed her own style, combining poetic realism with daring ... with whom she shared her love of art. Unfortunately, her promising ...

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 ...

Édouard Manet: We thought we knew him. An upper-class bon vivant, a fervent modernist who flouted artistic traditions but remained a realist even as he blazed a path for the Impressionists (whom ...

You might even glean this from the two self-portraits that open the show. In Manet’s, dated around 1878, the artist stands alert, eager-eyed, paintbrush poised. Dressed in a sporty beige jacket ...

BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly ...