Artist: Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883)
Nationality: French
Movement: Impressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Manet was born in Paris to an aristocratic family which only allowed him to study art after he failed his examinations at the Naval Academy. He emerged from Courbet's Realism and is considered the founder of the Impressionist movement. He was devoted to - pure painting - to the belief that brush strokes and color patches themselves, not what they stand for, are the artist's primary reality. He broke with the classical Renaissance tradition of a picture being a window into a scene and painted without shadows and depth (The Fifer, 1866). His painting - Luncheon on the Grass -, were he created an effect of form devoid of nuances, was initially rejected from the Salon and provoked hostility from the public and the press. Manet was concerned with the properties of painting and not with the subject matter. His revolutionary painting style might have been a reaction to the challenge of photography. Photography, which was invented 25 years before, had overtaken Renaissance perspective for the representation of objective truth and now painting needed to overcome its competition with the camera. Manet accomplished this by insisting that a painted canvas is foremost a material surface covered with pigments and that the viewer must look at the canvas and not through it. He has inaugurated modern painting by offering no extrapictorial message and thus freeing art of the tyranny of subject matter. He refused to abide by the traditional rules of chiaroscuro: instead of modeling in a continuous scale of tones from dark to light, he treats the shadows as shapes in their own right, solid and clearly bounded. He reduced form to spots and patches of tone and approached abstraction by stressing pattern. By 1865 Manet had become the unofficial leader of the avantgarde painters. The - Bar of the Folies-Bergere -, one of his late masterworks, was well received when shown at the Salon. He died in Paris in 1883. Eduoard Manet was born in Paris to a well-off family. His original intentions were to join the navy, but instead he decided to study painting under Thomas Couture. Manet painted Luncheon on the Grass in 1863, which created controversy b/c of the nudity of women in a Parisian park picnicking with fully clothed men. The public viewed this as indecent and immoral. Manet used subject matter to emphasize that the importance of a piece lies in the actual painting, not the content. Manet had a significant amount of interaction with the members of the Impressionist movement, however he never exhibited with them.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Madame Édouard Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1830-1906) Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 39 1/2 x
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Édouard Manet, Seated, ca. 1866-68 Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834-1917 Paris); portrait of Édouard Manet
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Strawberries Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 8 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (21.3 x
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Peonies, 1864-65 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 23 3/8 x 13 7/8 in. (59.4
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Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830-1914) Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 23 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.
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Boy with a Sword, 1861 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 51 5/8 x 36
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Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1830-1906) at Bellevue, 1880 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 31
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The Brioche, 1870 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in.
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The Spanish Singer, 1860 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 58 x 45 in. (147.3
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Young Lady in 1866, 1866 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 72 7/8 x 50
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The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, 1874 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas;
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A Matador, ca. 1865-70 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 67 3/8 x 44 1/2
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Mademoiselle Isabelle Lemonnier, 1879-82 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Pastel on canvas; 22 x 18 1/4 in.
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Head of Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830-1914), 1882-83 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 18 1/8 x
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Artist: Edouard Manet Title: Les Courses Date: about 1869 Medium: lithograph Dimensions: H.15 x W.20-1/8
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Artist: Edouard Manet Title: The Smoker Date: 1866 Medium: drypoint Dimensions: H.5 x W.5-1/2 in.
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Still Life with Flowers, Fan, and Pearls, 1864 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 18
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Young Man in the Costume of a Majo, 1863 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas;
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Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada, 1862 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil
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Fishing, 1861-63 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas, transferred from the original canvas; 30 1/4
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Boating, 1874 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 38 1/4 x 51 1/4 in. (97.2
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Artist: Edouard Manet Title: Polichinelle Date: about 1874 - 1876 Medium: color lithograph Dimensions: H.16-5/8
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The Dead Christ and the Angels, 1864 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 70 5/8
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Artist: Edouard Manet Title: The Smoker Date: 1866 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.39-1/2 x
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Henri-Charles GuÈrard Edouard Manet Drypoint circa 1875
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George Moore (1852-1933) at the Café, 1878 or 1879 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas;
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Artist: Edouard Manet Title: Spanish Guitar Player Date: 1861 Medium: etching Dimensions: H.11-3/4 x W.9-1/2
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Edouard Manet Hat and Guitar, frontispiece from the portfolio Edouard Manet: Eaux-fortes (Edouard Manet: Etchings) (Paris: A. Cadart, 1874) Etching and aquatint on blue wove paper 1862
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Copy after Delacroix"s "Bark of Dante", ca. 1859 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 13
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The Funeral Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 28 5/8 x 35 5/8 in. (72.7
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Mademoiselle Lucie Delabigne (1859-1910), Called Valtesse de la Bigne, 1879 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Pastel on
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George Moore (1852-1933), 1873-79 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Pastel on canvas; 21 3/4 x 13 7/8
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Edouard Manet Olympia, after a painting by the artist, 1863 Etching and aquatint 1867
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Edouard Manet Berthe Morisot, after a painting by the artist, 1872 Etching from the canceled plate 1872
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The Rue Mosnier with Flags
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Edouard Manet Olympia, after the painting by the artist, 1863 Etching printed in black and gray-black 1867
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Edouard Manet Odalisque, after a painting by the artist, 1862 Etching and aquatint printed in brown 1868
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Edouard Manet La convalescente (The convalescent), after a drawing by the artist, from the book Manet by Edmond Bazire (Paris: A. Quantin, 1884) Etching and aquatint 1876 - 1878
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Bullfight
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Edouard Manet Berthe Morisot, after a painting by the artist, 1872 Etching on Van Gelder Zonen paper 1872
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Edouard Manet Le buveur d*absinthe (The Absinthe Drinker) after the painting by the artist, 1858-1859 Etching and aquatint on Japanese paper 1860
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Edouard Manet Jeanne: Le printemps (Jeanne: The Spring), after a painting by the artist, 1882 Etching and aquatint on light green laid paper 1882
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The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne, 1864 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 32 1/8 x 39
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Edouard Manet Head of Christ oil on canvas 1865
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Edouard Manet At The Milliner's (Chez La Modiste) oil on canvas 1881
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Edouard Manet - The Bullfight 1864 oil on canvas The Frick Collection French
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Edouard Manet - At the Races c. 1875 oil on wood National Gallery of Art French
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Edouard Manet - Oysters 1862 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Edouard Manet - The Old Musician 1862 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Edouard Manet - The Railway 1873 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Edouard Manet - The Smoker 1866 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Edouard Manet Le guitarrero (The guitar player) Etching 1861
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Edouard Manet - Le Philosophe 1866 etching and drypoint Art Complex Museum at Duxbury French
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Ferdinand Mulnier Edouard Manet from the series Galerie contemporaine, littÈraire, artistique woodburytype circa 1877 - 1882
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Edouard Manet Le guitarrero (The guitar player) Etching on Chinese paper 1861
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Edouard Manet Profile Portrait of Charles Baudelaire Etching on Chinese paper 1862
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Edouard Manet Bateaux de Peche sur la Plage, St. Pierre-en-porte, Normandy oil on canvas 1873
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Edouard Manet, French, 1832-1883 Music Lesson 1870 Oil on canvas 141.0 x 173.1 cm (55
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Edouard Manet Guerre civile (Civil War) Lithograph on chine collÈ 1871
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Edouard Manet L*enfant et le chien (Child and dog) Etching and aquatint printed in brown 1861
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Edouard Manet Profile of Eva GonzalËs, turned to the left Etching printed in dark brown 1870
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Edouard Manet L*enfant portant un plateau (Child carrying a tray) Etching and aquatint 1862
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Edouard Manet Le Fleuve - Dragonfly (Paris: Librairie de l*Eau-Forte, [1874 or 1875]) etching 1875
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Edouard Manet Le Fleuve- Mountain (Paris: Librairie de l*Eau-Forte, [1874 or 1875]) etching 1875
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Edouard Manet Le Fleuve- Landscape (Paris: Librairie de l*Eau-Forte, [1874 or 1875]) etching 1875
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Edouard Manet Le Fleuve-Ships (Paris: Librairie de l*Eau-Forte, [1874 or 1875]) etching 1875
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Edouard Manet Le Fleuve-Swamp (Paris: Librairie de l*Eau-Forte, [1874 or 1875]) etching 1875
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Edouard Manet Le Fleuve-Five figures (Paris: Librairie de l*Eau-Forte, [1874 or 1875]) etching 1875
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Edouard Manet Le Fleuve- Under Bridge (Paris: Librairie de l*Eau-Forte, [1874 or 1875]) etching 1875
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Edouard Manet Le Fleuve-Birds (Paris: Librairie de l*Eau-Forte, [1874 or 1875]) etching 1875
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Edouard Manet Lettres illustrÈes de …douard Manet (Paris: Maurice LeGarrec …diteur, 1929) Book with reproductions of 22 illustrated letters 1929
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Edouard Manet Les petits cavaliers (The little cavaliers), pl. 2 from the portfolio Huit gravures ‡ l'eau forte par Manet (Eight etchings by Manet) (Paris: Cadart, 1862) after a painting attributed to Diego Rodrigo de Silva y Vel·squez Etching o
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Edouard Manet L*enfant et le chien (Child and dog) Etching and aquatint printed in brown on (faded) blue-green paper 1861
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Edouard Manet Le rendez-vous des chats (The cats' rendezvous) from La chronique illustrÈ photographic reproduction 1868
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Edouard Manet - The Execution of Maximilian c. 1867-1868 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London French
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Edouard Manet - On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer c. 1868-1869 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts French
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Edouard Manet Le Fleuve (Paris: Librairie de l*Eau-Forte, [1874 or 1875]) Book with etchings on cream laid paper; loose in wrappers 1875
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Edouard Manet Reproduction of letter of 14 July 1880, sixth letter in the book, Lettres illustrÈes de …douard Manet (Paris: Maurice LeGarrec …diteur, 1929) Collotype with pochoir (?) coloring 1880
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Edouard Manet - Georges Clemenceau 1879-80 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum French
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Edouard Manet - Berthe Morisot c. 1869 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Edouard Manet - Boats at Berck-sur-Mer 1873 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Edouard Manet - Women at the Races 1865 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum French
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Edouard Manet - The Dead Toreador c. 1864 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Edouard Manet - The Café Concert 1879 oil on canvas The Walters Art Museum French
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Edouard Manet - Tama, the Japanese Dog c. 1875 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Edouard Manet - Woman Reading 1878/79 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Edouard Manet - Portrait of a Lady c. 1879 oil on wood National Gallery of Art French
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Edouard Manet - The Races at Longchamp 1866 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Edouard Manet - Fish (Still-Life) 1864 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Edouard Manet - The Mocking of Christ 1865 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Edouard Manet - Plum Brandy c. 1877 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Edouard Manet Le chat et les fleurs (Cat and flowers), from the book Les Chats (The Cats) by Champfleury (Jules Fleury-Husson), 2nd ed. (Paris: J. Rothschild, 1870) Etching and aquatint 1869
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Edouard Manet "Rendez-vous de chats, d'aprËs une composition d…douard Manet," pg. 259, in the book Les Chats (Cats) by Champfleury (Paris: J. Rothschild, 1870). etching (reproduction) 1870
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Edouard Manet Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, Full Face, from the book Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son oeuvre (Charles Baudelaire, His Life and His Work) by Charles Asselineau (Paris: Lemerre, 1869) Etching on Chinese paper 1865
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Ferdinand Mulnier Edouard Manet, fifty-eighth plate in this bound selection of 81 illustrated essays from the series,Galerie contemporaine, littÈraire, artistique Woodburytype circa 1877 - 1882
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Edouard Manet, French, 1832-1883 Execution of the Emperor Maximilian 1867 Oil on canvas 195.9 x
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Edouard Manet "Le chat et les fleurs (the cat and the flowers)," pg. 40, in the book Les Chats (Cats) by Champfleury (Paris: J. Rothschild, 1870). etching 1870
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Edouard Manet - Madame Michel-Levy 1882 pastel on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Edouard Manet, French, 1832-1883 Christ Mocked 1860-65 Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
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Edouard Manet - Still Life with Melon and Peaches c. 1866 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Musee d'Orsay: Still lives by Manet
In spite of their simplicity, his compositions were subtly elaborate, whether they be a lemon, an asparagus, violets, peonies... Some of these ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
As the title indicates, at the core of the exhibition will be the "Spanish" work of Edouard Manet, whose career thoroughly reveals the importance of Spanish painting by the middle of the 19th century. Manet/Velázquez will feature more paintings by...
Walters Art Museum: Manet: The Still-Life Paintings
Manet: The Still-Life Paintings features 55 works of art, including a number...
Speed Art Museum: Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle
Along with Mary Cassatt, Morisot was the most well-known and successful female Impressionist painter and one of the most important woman artists of the nineteenth century. She was the first woman to join the artistic circle of the Impressionists...
Museo del Prado: Manet at the Prado
The latter two institutions recently held the exhibition "Manet-Velázquez: the French Taste for Spanish Painting", but in the present case, the Prado will be focusing exclusively on the work of Manet with the intention of exploring the achievement...
Philbrook Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
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Detroit Institute of Art: The Etching Revival in Europe: Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century French and British Prints
Examples of their work and that of many artists on both sides of the English Channel such as Charles Meryon, Edouard Manet, Jean François Millet, and Frank Brangwyn are part of this exhibition of more than 120 prints from the DIA collection. ...
Frick Collection: Six Paintings from the Former Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney on Loan from the Greentree Foundation
The selection reflects the Whitneys’ interest in art produced in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which formed the core of their renowned collection. The six paintings, displayed in the Garden Court, are accompan...
Cincinnati Art Museum: European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
This exhibition, which make its world premiere at the CAM, will travel the United States while the
Guggenheim Museum: Connecting Museums: One of the First Manifestations of the Guggenheim-Hermitage-Kunsthistorisches Collaboration
Connecting Museums, one of the first manifestations of the Guggenheim-Hermitage-Kunsthistorisches collaboration, will be an ongoing series of focused exhibitions in which masterpieces from each collection are on view at the three partner instituti...
National Museum of Western Art: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay 1999 — The Dreams and Realities of the 19th Century
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Baltimore Museum of Art: Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections
Presenting 56 signature paintings by Monet, Renoir, Manet, Cassatt, Degas, Cézanne, and many other luminaries of 19th-century French art, Faces of ...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: From Manet to Picasso: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Prints and Drawings
Prints and drawings ranging from the time of Edouard Manet in mid-century to the early Picasso at the end of the century comprise this survey of works by some of the most well known artists of the time. Impressionists in the exhibition include Ed...
National Gallery: Spirit of an Age: 19th-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The Nationalgalerie was designed to provide a showcase for contemporary German art. To...
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: From Woodblocks to Comics: The Japanese Impression
From classical Chinese painters Japanese artists borrowed the flat perspective that became a hallmark of their own art. In their ukiyo-e printmaking they developed their own delicate and graceful style that captured the work and pleasures of ev...
ATTIC GALLERY: FABIENNE CHRISTENSON: IT S MY PLEASURE
More recently, Fabienne was inspired in Italy after a face-to-face encounter with a fresco by Masaccio. Wedging herself behind the alter of the Branccasi Chapel in Florence, Fabienne was inches away from a portion called St. Peter Preaching<...
Hong Kong Museum of Art: Impressionism: Treasures from the National Collection of France
Interpreting impression as an impression at a glance or frozen in time, these artists turned their back on traditional subjects - historical events, mythology and religious themes - and instead recorded the cityscapes, daily life as well as char...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
The exhibition is currently being presented at the Royal Academy of Art in London, England, before concluding with its visit to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The exhibition has received critical accolades in each of its previous engagements. ...
Pierre Gianadda Foundation: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
The exhibition brings together between 90 and 100 paintings and works on paper. As for Van Gogh, drawing was ...
Van Gogh Museum: Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1869-1890
Art history generally ... has neglected the hand. ... The aim of this exhibition is to reopen the question of manual dexterity and to reconsider the physical intelligence of artists by directly confronting paintings that are, in themse...
National Gallery of Art: The Impressionists at Argenteuil
The dazzling, lyrical paintings that make up this exhibition reflect the richness of the impressionists' responses to the Argenteuil site and the complex dialogue that developed among them as they studied...
van Gogh Museum: Van Gogh and the Sea
Several drawings and sketches in letters from the time Van Gogh spent in The Hague (1881-1883) show the beach and village of Scheveningen, as well as portraits of fishermen. He was apparently less interested in the cosmopolitan entertainments of t...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum, stated: For six months out of each year, this extraordinary loan signi...
National Gallery: Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890
Art history generally ... has neglected the hand. ... The aim of this exhibition is to reopen the question of manual dexterity and to reconsider the physical intelligence of artists by directly confronting paintings that are, in themselves, dir...
Silicon Pulp Animation Gallery: Last Chance! Relics from Rustic Animations
Bruce Currie is an enigmatic entertainer - an actor, writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator. The folkloric nature of his stories and characters belies the polish and technical intricac...
Royal Academy of Arts: Ingres to Matisse: Masterpieces of French Painting
Opening with work by Ingres and Delacroix and closing with the paintings of Picasso and Matisse, the exhibition will provide a broad overview of French painting from the early nineteenth-century to the 1930s. Ingres to Matisse ...
Silicon Pulp Animation Gallery: Relics from Rustic Animations
Bruce Currie is an enigmatic entertainer - an actor, writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator. The folkloric nature of his stories and characters belies the polish and technical intricac...
Milwaukee Art Museum: Nothing But Nudes: Selections from the Permanent Collection
he exhibition Nothing But Nudes: Selections from the Permanent Collection reveals not only the many roles of the nude in art but also the depth of the museum's holdings. Including works from all media painting and sculpture, w...
Seattle Art Museum: Impressionism Paintings Collected by European Museums
Impressionism will provide an overview of the revolutionary 19th-century art movement, while also offering new insights into Impressionism’s early ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Faces of Impressionism
CMA director Katharine Lee Reid explained the appeal of this particular show: What we get to see in this exhibition is the Impressionists tackling the grand European tradition of portraiture with their revolutionary painting voc...

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