The exhibition invites viewers to look past old binaries of muse and master and toward a more reciprocal artistic exchange.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Toledo Museum of Art’s new exhibition on the portraits of French 19th-century painter Edouard Manet is arguably the most important this fall between Chicago and the East Coast. That covers a lot ...

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 piano ...

A new exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco captures the creative spark between two avant-garde 19th-century painters, Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. By Karen Rosenberg The ...

The 19th-century painter Edouard Manet, who forged a crucial path from Realism to Impressionism, had a habit of getting under the skin of contemporary art critics in France. They complained about his ...