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

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

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..

In works like “Repose” (ca. 1871), Manet depicted the entitlement of the bourgeoisie, if on somewhat gentler terms than Degas. Art work by Édouard Manet / Courtesy RISD Museum Save this story ...

Edouard Manet. Posted in Books ... What’s fascinating about Manet/Degas at The Met is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.

This work—“Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet”—will be on view at the show. Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE. July 21-November 13.

Manet’s ambition was to have his work shown and lauded at the annual Salon of the august École des Beaux ... Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read 120 Comments. Share ...

Manet would not join him and his colleagues in planning it and instead kept submitting his work to show at the juried Salon. “Manet still refuses to join us,” Degas wrote in a letter.

Manet’s legacy owes much to him; after his death in 1883 from syphilis at just 51, Degas acquired more than 80 of his works — including many in this show — and helped buy “Olympia” for ...

Manet featured Laure in two other works. (She was the sole subject of one of them.) For many years, scholars largely ignored her in their analyses of Olympia.