Édouard Manet (1832–1883) and Edgar Degas (1834–1917) were peers, friends, and rivals. The two French painters played a crucial role in the new painting that emerged between the 1860s and 1880s in ...

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 ...

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 ...

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Two old friends come together again - this time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Edgar Degas, his vibrant colors against a stark background. Édouard Manet, whose ...

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 ...

Berthe Morisot, "Intérieur," (1872), oil on canvas (photo by Randy Dodson, courtesy the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; all other photos Bridget Quinn/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) SAN ...

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) once said that "a painter can say all he wants to with fruit or flowers or even clouds..." The exhibition, "Manet: The Still-Life Paintings," now at the Walters Art Museum in ...

Édouard Manet has become a popular painter, yet he remains a difficult and unpredictable one. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

Family money plays a great role in the art of the nineteenth century. Moderate family allowances enabled Corot and Cézanne to leave behind the marketplaces of Parisian art and paint their unsalable ...

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

As a general rule, I’m not much of one for speculative history or fiction. I’ll happily admit, for example, that I was deeply unimpressed with George Orwell’s 1984. While I was quickly (and, on my ...