Edouard Manet

France, 1832 - 1883
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Edouard Manet oil paintings
Autumn (Study of Mery Laurent)
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23822
Spring (Study of Jeanne Demarsy)
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23823
Corner of a Cafe-Concert
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23827
Argenteuil
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23828
Repose (Study of Berthe Morisot)
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23829
The Balcony
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23830
Reading (Mme Manet and Leon)
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23831
The Spanish Singer (The Guitar Player)
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23832
Eva Gonzales
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23834
Boy with Dog
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23835
Le Chemin de fer (The Railroad)
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23837
Masked Ball at the Opera
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23838
Olympia
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23839
The Street Singer
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23841
Young Man in the Costume of a Majo
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23842
M. and Mme Auguste Manet
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23843
Boating
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23844
On the beach at Boulogne
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23845
Portrait of Antonin Proust
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23846
Portrait of Eva Gonzales
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23848
The Luncheon in the Studio
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23849
Portrait of Emile Zola
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23850
The Salmon
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23851
The Beach at Sainte Adresse
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23852
Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23853
The house at Rueil
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23855
Racetrack near Paris
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23856
The Fifer
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23857
The Waitress
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23858
Blonde Woman with Bare Breasts
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23859
Woman with Fans (Nina de Callias)
Edouard Manet
Item ID:23860
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Edouard Manet 23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883, was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism. Today these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.

Born into an upper class household with strong political connections, Manet rejected the future originally envisioned for him, only to become engrossed in the world of painting. The last 20 years of Manet's life saw him form bonds with other great artists of the time, and develop his own style that would be heralded as innovative and serve as a major influence for future painters.

Edouard Manet was born in Paris on 23 January 1832, to an affluent and well connected family. His mother, Eugenie-Desiree Fournier, was the daughter of a diplomat and goddaughter of the Swedish crown prince, Charles Bernadotte, from whom the current Swedish monarchs are descended. His father, Auguste Manet, was a French judge who expected Edouard to pursue a career in law. His uncle, Charles Fournier, encouraged him to pursue painting and often took young Manet to the Louvre. In 1841 he enrolled at secondary school, the College Rollin. In 1845, at the advice of his uncle, Manet enrolled in a special course of drawing where he met Antonin Proust, future Minister of Fine Arts and subsequent life-long friend.

At his father's suggestion, in 1848 he sailed on a training vessel to Rio de Janeiro. After Manet twice failed the examination to join the Navy, the elder fManet relented to his son's wishes to pursue an art education. From 1850 to 1856, Manet studied under the academic painter, Thomas Couture. In his spare time, Manet copied the old masters in the Louvre.

From 1850 to 1856 he visited Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, during which time he absorberd the influences of the Dutch painter Frans Hals, as well as the Spanish artists, Diego Velazquez and Francisco Jose de Goya.

In 1856, Manet opened his own studio, His style in this period was characterized by loose brush strokes, simplification of details and the suppression of transitional tones. Adopting the current style of realism initiated by Gustave Courbet, he painted The Absinthe Drinker (1858-59) and other contemporary subjects such as beggars, singers, Gypsies, people in cafes, and bullfights. After his early years, he rarely painted religious, mythological, or historical subjects; examples include his Christ Mocked, now in the Institute of Chicago, and Christ with Angels, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.


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