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Chez le Père Lathuille (1879)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Chez le Père Lathuille (At Père Lathuille’s) 1879 Oil on canvas, 92 x 112 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai, Tournai “The modern life I spoke of, here it is” (Joris-Karl Huysmans) With Édouard Manet, painting enters modernity.…

La fin du déjeuner (1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La fin du déjeuner (After the Luncheon) 1879 Oil on canvas, 101 x 81 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt In the arbour of a Parisian restaurant, an abundant meal is drawing to a close. The actress Ellen Andrée has taken…

Dans un café (1875-1876)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe (In a Cafe or Absinthe) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 92 x 68.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Unlike his Impressionist friends, Degas was an essentially urban painter, who liked to paint the enclosed…

Monsieur et Madame Édouard Manet (1868-1869)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Monsieur et Madame Édouard Manet 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 65 x 71 cm Kitakyushu Museum of Art, Kitakyushu Degas presented this portrait to his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Manet. Manet looks to be listening to the piano being…

Madame Auguste Manet (c.1866)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Auguste Manet c.1866 Oil on canvas, 98 x 80 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston This portrait of the artist’s mother, Eugénie-Désirée Fournier Manet (1811-1885), shows her in the widow’s black mourning dress she donned after her…

Dans la serre (1878-1879)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Dans la serre (In the Conservatory) 1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 115 x 150 cm Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin In June 1896, Max Liebermann and Hugo von Tschudi were together in Paris. Tschudi, who had only been director of…

Monsieur et Madame Auguste Manet (1860)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Monsieur et Madame Auguste Manet (Manet’s parents) 1860 Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Fournier, Eugénie Désirée, Mme Auguste Manet | Manet, Auguste

Madame Manet (1874-1876)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Manet 1874–1876 Oil on canvas, 60.6 x 50.8 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Manet met his future wife, Suzanne Leenhoff, in 1850, when she arrived in his parents’ household as a piano teacher. Before their marriage, Suzanne…