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, ...

The most famous painting in the Musée d’Orsay — and probably the second-most famous painting in Paris after the “Mona Lisa” — is Édouard Manet’s “Olympia.” What does this 1863 painting show? A ...

William H. Johnson, “Portrait of Woman with Blue and White Striped Blouse” (ca. 1940–42), tempera on paperboard, 28 × 22 1/16 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, gift of the ...

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 ...

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, May 12. Pompidou Launches ...

“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 Paris in ...

When curator Denise Murrell talks about Édouard Manet, she races through the details of his life, sometimes abruptly changing course to parse less-discussed aspects of his art — often in disbelief ...

A new exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco captures the creative spark between two avant-garde 19th-century painters, Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. By Karen Rosenberg Reporting from ...

A new exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco captures the creative spark between two avant-garde 19th-century painters, Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. By Karen Rosenberg The ...