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

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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 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.

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

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 ...

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, born in 1832, emerged in the 1860s with paintings that daringly blended the historical and the contemporary, such as “Luncheon on the Grass” and “Olympia.” ...