Melbourne art lovers are in awe of the NGV’s latest exhibition French Impressionism, which features more than 100 works from ...

A landmark work by the 19th-century Filipino painter and activist Juan Luna is one of the newest highlights at the Louvre Abu ...

We often perceive the muses of great artists only through the prism of their works. However, artists are peculiar people and ...

Edouard Manet, Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, 1865 A true “student” of Manet might, then, expand upon this element of his work by experimenting with new and fresh ways to express “real” subjects in a ...

This chronology is made clear by the work of Fernand Lochard, who was commissioned to photograph all the works in Manet’s studio for the auction of his estate (four thick albums, 88 photos each).

Although Léon appeared in at least 18 Manet oil paintings and various works on paper, he almost never appears as the subject of a conventional portrait. In one picture he is a fifer, in another ...

In the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s “Manet: A Model Family,” about Édouard Manet’s enigmatic relationships, everything is transfixing and nothing adds up.

Another member of the family was the celebrated painter Berthe Morisot, whose work Manet admired and who was probably also his lover. Berthe married Manet’s younger brother, Eugène, also an artist.

Not so much. The Gardner Museum looks to tip the scale back a little with “Manet: A Model Family,” a domestic mise-en-scene with some 30 works by the artist of those closest to him..

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” is an account of the city’s Terrible Year and its impact on the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.