The institute`s Manet canvases are, of course, well known–as is their place in the history of 19th-Century French painting. But the artist`s […] Skip to content ...

Manet's sea paintings, his radical experiments in modernism, drove the critics crazy. They complained his work looked unfinished. In the pressure cooker that was the Paris art world, in today's ...

In Manet’s, dated around 1878, the artist stands alert, eager-eyed, paintbrush poised. Dressed in a sporty beige jacket and hat, he’s ready to wrap up this quick-job self-sketch and join you ...

In his last years, as he was dying of complications from syphilis, artist Édouard Manet was in agonizing pain — but you'd never know it from his exquisite flower bouquets and vibrant portraits.

Édouard Manet is best known for his realistic paintings of Parisian life, but this month the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston delves into the artist's lesser-known medium—his prints and drawings ...

Consider the case of French artist Édouard Manet (1832-1883), who for much of his career was infatuated with all things Spanish.

Sky and sea, smoke and steam were a combination of elements irresistible to Impressionist painters. And one June day 139 years ago, those elements merged off the coast of France in one of the most … ...

Some of Manet's best-known paintings, including “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” and “Chez le Père Lathuille,” date from these final years, so it's odd that this should be the first show ...

With portraits the artist made of the people closest to him, the exhibition tunes into the details of his private life In 1863, Édouard Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, his well-to-do family’s ...

In Manet’s lithograph “The Races,” what first catches the eye is the burst of horses down the track toward the viewer, creating a dynamic impression of motion. But perhaps even mo… ...

Let me declare an interest: I am a Manet freak.To me he is more than just the greatest painter of the 19th century; he’s the supreme model of how an artist can meet the times head-on, and ...

Manet, the chatty type, looked down at his fellow-artist’s attempt and said, “How audacious of you to etch that way, without any preliminary drawing, I would not dare do the same!” ...