Artnet

A Manet Painting Was Divided for Years—Until Degas Brought It Back Together

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 ...
Yahoo

Before Facebook, there was Manet, painting friends

Brian Kennedy, director of the Toledo Museum of Art, poses in front of a portrait of French Impressionist Edouard Manet, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Toledo, Ohio. An exhibition of Manet's works opened ...
The Washington Post

Why did the Frenchman Manet paint a Spanish matador?

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See How Manet and Morisot’s Creative Friendship Influenced Their Artistic Styles

The works of French artists Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot have been exhibited in museums around the world over the past century. But no major exhibition has explicitly explored the creative ...
Forbes

Major Museum Exhibition Highlights How Manet’s Influential Late Works Led A Transition From Realism To Impressionism

"Jeanne (Spring)" (1881) Édouard Manet Oil on canvas, 29 1/8 in. x 20 ¼ in. Fine, dainty brushstrokes adorn the floral dress worn by Parisian actress Jeanne DeMarsy. The smooth skin of her pale face ...
Artnet

Art Bites: The Face Manet Repainted 40 Times

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 ...
Hyperallergic

Manet’s Controversial Nude Is Coming to New York

“Olympia” (1863) will be shown in the US for the first time as part of a Met exhibition focused on the joint careers of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Édouard Manet, "Olympia" (1863), oil on canvas, ...
Morning Call PA

The Manet that made waves ** Art and history coalesce around artist’s painting of Civil War naval battle

Sky and sea, smoke and steam were a combination of elements irresistible to Impressionist painters. And one June day 139 years ago, those elements merged off the coast of France in one of the most ...
The Washington Post

Manet captured the spectacle of the moment in his 19th-century image of a deceased toreador

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In 1864, the year Édouard Manet painted his dead bullfighter, a gleaming ...
The New York Times

One Little Thing: Manet’s Shoes

Eight little things (a scene, a joke, a building, a pizza, a dance, a painting, a lyric, a sound) worth your time. By Jason Farago This shoe appears in Édouard Manet’s “Mademoiselle V … in the Costume ...
The Forward

Is Jewish Girl Star of Edouard Manet’s Famed Painting ‘The Railway’?

Cast in the major exhibition “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” (through September 29 at the Art Institute of Chicago), certain paintings expose their undergarments, so to speak. The exhibit, ...