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, ...

An exhibition sets out to rescue Morisot from the assumption that she was under Manet’s influence, but it's far from academic ...

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 ...

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

Édouard Manet was infatuated with all things Spanish — and especially Spain’s greatest painter Art is inseparable from society, but the two things don’t seem to progress in lockstep. The relationship ...

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Eva Gonzalès was not only lucky enough to be born in Paris in the 1840s, at a time when the city’s art world was experiencing a profound artistic revolution, but to be born to parents who allowed her ...

He's one of those painters considered so influential, people don't even bother with his first name. Looking at his work now, it's hard to imagine that Edouard Manet was ever regarded as revolutionary, ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In 1864, the year Édouard Manet painted his dead bullfighter, a gleaming ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Long before smartphones turned so many of us into amateur photographers and revolutionized how we depict each other through social media, there were the works of French Impressionist ...

A stunning portrait of a Parisian actress by Edouard Manet sold for $65 million at auction in New York on Wednesday, a record for a work by the French impressionist artist. The painting entitled ...