The extraordinarily close artistic relationship of the Realist Edouard Manet (1832-1883), who is often described as the father of modern painting, and Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), a crucial, ...

When institutional acclaim plucked French impressionist Berthe Morisot from relative obscurity six years ago, the tradition of situating her in relation to famed male colleagues like Renoir and Degas ...

The French painter’s ‘Repose’ was once described as ‘a lesson in how to love’ Forty years ago, the art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote that “art love is attained, or contracted, through a series of ...

Installation view of "Manet & Morisot" at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, 2025. Photograph by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco It’s possible to have a lifetime ...

A new book by Sebastian Smee, the Washington Post art critic and former contributor to The Art Newspaper, tells the story of the Siege of Paris and the subsequent Commune through the eyes of the ...

Impressionism started out 151 years ago out as a rebellious movement, derided by critics, but it’s box office gold these days, and museums worldwide celebrated its sesquicentennial with major ...

The works of French artists Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot have been exhibited in museums around the world over the past century. But no major exhibition has explicitly explored the creative ...

A fascinating exhibition at San Francisco's Legion of Honor, the first of its kind, takes a close look at douard Manet and Berthe Morisot, revealing how the major 19th century French painters knew and ...