Manet’s ambition was to have his work shown and lauded at the annual Salon of the august École des Beaux-Arts, while Degas was instrumental in founding an alternative yearly showcase, the anti ...

They were Manet’s favorite flower; he had painted them in beautiful works in 1864-1865. Bazille had by now befriended his hero, so his decision to highlight the peonies was a kind of homage.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is set to open its doors to the public beginning on Friday for the annual Art in Bloom event, showcasing floral interpretations of 45 artworks.Fresh flowers have ...

Each Manet bouquet “is the trace of the departed visitor,” the painter and critic Andrew Forge writes in The Last Flowers of Manet (1986), a compact volume that collects these still lifes.

In 1863, Édouard Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, his well-to-do family’s piano teacher. That she came part and parcel with a son, Léon, was no doubt a scandale in the Parisian haute-bourgeosie ...

Flowers in Stone to Fantin- Latour and Manet, 2001; 31 x 27.5 in. (78.7 x 69.8 cm.) close. Medium Oil on canvas Size 31 x 27.5 in. (78.7 x 69.8 cm.) Description Keffiyeh truffaut disrupt Sale ...

“Manet: A Model Family,” opening at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Oct. 10, arrives in the year that marks the 150th anniversary of the first-ever Impressionist exhibition, held in ...

“Manet/Degas,” an exhibition opening March 28 at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, aims to trace the evolution of French painting through the lens of these friends and rivals.

Manet’s work similarly depicts a nude woman reclining on a bed—but this figure is modern, ... carrying a bouquet of flowers. Manet featured Laure in two other works.

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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.