A fascinating exhibition at San Francisco's Legion of Honor, the first of its kind, takes a close look at Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, revealing how the major 19 th century French painters knew ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Edgar Degas, "Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet” (1868–69), oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 27 15/16 inches; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (photo courtesy Kitakyushu Municipal Museum) Punctuation as ...

From Paris to Washington, via London, these paintings by Manet are enough to grasp the quiet upheaval he triggered in 19th-century art. In six stops, this journey through museums around the world ...

In January 1862 two young painters started talking about their craft as they copied Velázquez’ masterpiece, the Infanta Margarita, in the Louvre. Édouard Manet was just 30 years of age, the son of a ...

Manet’s ‘Olympia’ is coming to the Met as part of its ‘Manet/Degas’ exhibition “Olympia” — the Mona Lisa of modern art — has come to America for the first time. Édouard Manet began painting his ...

With Manet – Painting the Gaze, starting at the end of May 2016 on the occasion of its reopening, the Hamburger Kunsthalle presents an exhibition of superlatives: Including numerous masterworks by ...

Edouard Manet’s imposing 1882 painting of a winsome, weary barmaid at the Folies-Bergère has cast a long shadow across the final years of the artist’s life. Manet died the next year, at age 51, but ...