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Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
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culture · French painter (1832–1883) · painter · illustrator · lithographer · architectural drafter · draftsperson · visual artist · artist · also Édouard Manet, Edouard Manet, Éduard Manet, Eduard Manė, Eduard Manet, Manet
Born 23 January 1832 · Died 30 April 1883 · Q40599
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2026· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot Meet as Equals
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2023· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City exhibited a two-person exhibition of Manet with Degas
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2014· 1 entry
The Boston Globe: Edouard Manet’s ‘Victorine Meurent’ at the MFA
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2006· 1 entry
“I was painting modern Paris while you were still painting Greek athletes”
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1975· 1 entry
By Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, comprise 430 oil paintings, 89 pastels, and more than 400 works on paper
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1883· 2 entries
Died 1883-04-30.
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“Puedes hacer la pintura al aire libre adentro, pintando blanco por la mañana, lila durante el día y tonos anaranjados por la tarde.”
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1882· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1882).
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1881· 1 entry
With pressure from his friend Antonin Proust, the French government awarded Manet the Légion d'honneur
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1880· 1 entry
Painted a portrait there of the opera singer Émilie Ambre as Carmen
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1879· 1 entry
Began receiving hydrotherapy treatments at a spa near Meudon intended to improve what he believed was a circulatory problem, but in reality he was suffering from locomotor ataxia, a known side-effect of syphilis
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1877· 1 entry
Manet opened up his atelier to a republican electoral meeting chaired by Gambetta's friend Eugène Spuller
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1875· 1 entry
A book-length French edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven included lithographs by Manet and translation by Mallarmé
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1874· 1 entry
Became his sister-in-law when she married his brother, Eugène
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1865· 1 entry
“Cómo te echo de menos aquí [carta a Fantin-Latour durante la visita de Manet a Madrid en 1865], y cuánto te hubiera encantado ver a Velázquez, que solo en sí vale la pena el viaje (...). Es el pintor de los pintores. No me asombró, sino me encantó.”
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1864· 1 entry
And she continued to show in the salon for the next ten years
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1863· 2 entries
And '65, respectively, caused great controversy with both critics and the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon were praised by progressive artists as the breakthrough acts to the new style, Impressionism
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But Manet agreed to exhibit it at the Salon des Refusés ('Salon of the Rejected')
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1862· 2 entries
Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff in 1863 at a Protestant church
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Manet exhibited Music in the Tuileries (probably painted in 1860), one of his first masterpieces
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1852· 1 entry
Leenhoff gave birth, out of wedlock, to a son, Léon Koëlla Leenhoff
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1848· 1 entry
Sailed on a training vessel to Rio de Janeiro
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1845· 1 entry
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 his lifelong friend
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1844· 1 entry
Enrolled at secondary school, the Collège Rollin, where he boarded until 1848
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1832· 1 entry
Born 1832-01-23.
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