The Washington Post

Manet captured the spectacle of the moment in his 19th-century image of a deceased toreador

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 Boston Globe

Manet, Degas, and the nude that changed everything

NEW YORK — The 1865 Paris Salon was the site of grand scandale. “Olympia,” Édouard Manet’s painting of a nude courtesan lolling on a divan, forthrightly blasé alongside her Black maid and jittery cat, ...
Artnet

A Manet Painting Was Divided for Years—Until Degas Brought It Back Together

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 ...
Artnet

Art We Love: The Everlasting Enigma of Manet’s Balcony Scene

For an episode of the Art Angle podcast, we asked Artnet News writers and editors to tell us about one work of art that brings them joy. The following is a part of a series of transcripts of the ...
Hyperallergic

The Dance Between Manet and Degas

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 ...
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How the Legion of Honor's ‘Manet and Morisot' shatters a century-old myth

For more than a century, the story of the relationship between Impressionist artists Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot has been painted as one of exclusively male influence. But a new exhibition at the ...
Mental Floss

15 Facts About Édouard Manet’s ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’ (‘Luncheon on the Grass’)

Today, Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) is regarded as 19th-century French artist Édouard Manet’s greatest triumph. But when its unusual take on classical nudes was first displayed, it ...
The Boston Globe

Edouard Manet’s ‘Victorine Meurent’ at the MFA

This picture by Edouard Manet — one of the most arresting portraits in the Museum of Fine Arts — shows a young woman called Victorine Meurent, with a black ribbon around her neck and a dashingly ...
The New York Times

One Little Thing: Manet’s Shoes

Eight little things (a scene, a joke, a building, a pizza, a dance, a painting, a lyric, a sound) worth your time. By Jason Farago This shoe appears in Édouard Manet’s “Mademoiselle V … in the Costume ...
Los Angeles Times

Getty breaks record with $65.1-million purchase of Manet’s ‘Spring’

The J. Paul Getty Museum paid more than $65 million for an Édouard Manet painting at auction Wednesday evening in New York, shattering the record price for the French artist’s work and acquiring what ...
Los Angeles Times

A Getty show rummages around in Edouard Manet’s private shadows

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 ...