Although Léon appeared in at least 18 Manet oil paintings and various works on paper, he almost never appears as the subject of a conventional portrait. In one picture he is a fifer, in another ...

But in this painting, titled Édouard Manet and His Wife, the wife of the famous French painter no longer has a piano to play nor hands to play it with. When Edgar Degas painted the portrait ...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec blurred the lines between art and advertising even further, designing posters for the famous cabaret club Moulin Rouge. Manet did not paint Bass beer because the brewery ...

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have brought together 140 works in Manet/Degas, a comparative exhibition combining world famous masterpieces from their ...

Two titans of modern art — and famous frenemies — face off in New ... in a show that tends to put the spotlight on Manet’s blockbusters. Degas’s aunt Laura, in mourning for her father ...

On the morning of February 23, 1870, painter Edouard Manet and art critic Edmond Duranty traveled ... “I love the fact that Zola, who is famous for his sweeping, large-scale ultra-realist ...

Painted around 1876, the portrait of Bob the dog was commissioned by the opera singer and art collector Jean-Baptiste Faure. Faure owned an impressive 67 works by Manet (as well as works by his ...

National Gallery of Art It was a Saturday, shortly before the deadline for submissions. Manet asked Morisot how she was getting on. “Seeing that I felt dubious,” she reported, “he said to me ...

NEW YORK — The 1865 Paris Salon was the site of grand scandale. “Olympia,” Édouard Manet’s painting of a nude courtesan lolling on a divan, forthrightly blasé alongside her Black maid ...

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will be opening a an exhibition dedicated to exploring the artistic relationship of ...

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 ...