Manet, like his hero Diego Velázquez, was cool.His paintings convey a sense that nothing fazed him. But what Schjeldahl most loved him for was his ardor. “Manet responded to the sensuous charge ...

The two resulting artworks, "At the Café" and "Corner of a Café-Concert," both bear witness to vibrant social scenes from 19th-century Paris ...

In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive portraits between the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.

In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive ...

BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly ...

Manet’s portrait of Dejouy from 1879 opens the door to this chapter of Suzanne’s story; a radiant face, plump and kindly, tops a column of dark robes; prescient, perhaps, ...

Even Manet’s portraits of his wife, for example Madame Manet at the Piano (1868-1869, Musée d’Orsay) show Suzanne to have been plump and plain. De Nittis, the Italian painter, ...

When Manet started his “Portrait of the Artist (Manet with a Palette)” (c. 1878–79), he was in his mid-40s and more than 10 years past his miracle years of 1862–65, when he graced the ...

Manet’s 1868 portrait of the writer Emile Zola — with a little postcard-size black and white “Olympia” pinned to the wall, natch — is unabashed chest-beating.

Édouard Manet, "Reading," about 1868–1873. (Courtesy Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Photo by Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY) Another, more subdued portrait of Leenhoff playing the piano (also from ...

Edgar Degas, “Family Portrait (The Bellelli Family),” circa 1858-1869, is a masterwork from Degas’s early career, in a show that tends to put the spotlight on Manet’s blockbusters.