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.…
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…
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…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot 1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 151.4 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable painter James Tissot was Degas’s friend and mentor in the 1860s and early 1870s. Posed in a studio, top hat…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Un Bureau de coton à La Nouvelle-Orléans (A Cotton Office in New Orleans) 1873 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau See also: • New Orleans, LA (USA)
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…
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…
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
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le balcon (The Balcony) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 170 x 125 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris When Manet painted this piece, scenes of bourgeois life were in vogue. Yet The Balcony went against the conventions of the day. All…