Manet's version of what was hot news in June of 1864 was the sinking of a Confederate raider, "The Alabama," by the "USS Kearsarge," a major civil war battle fought off the coast of France. It was ...

Completed in 1862, when Manet was only 30, the painting depicts a young woman dressed up as an espada: the bullfighting participant who slays the beast after the matador is done.

“Manet/Degas,” an exhibition opening March 28 at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, aims to trace the evolution of French painting through the lens of these friends and rivals.

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 ...

Manet would not join him and his colleagues in planning it and instead kept submitting his work to show at the juried Salon. “Manet still refuses to join us,” Degas wrote in a letter.

Manet’s touch is unabashedly erotic. Observe the sash, stretched and pleated across the matador’s waist. You can feel the drag of the painter’s brush, feathering colored oils across the canvas.

MANET: A MODEL FAMILY. Through Jan. 20. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way. 617-566-1401, www.isgm.org. Murray Whyte can be reached at [email protected].

We encounter those etchings and Manet’s copperplate in “Manet/Degas” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a stunning, provocative exhibition, jointly organized by the Met and the Musées d ...

When Édouard Manet’s Olympia debuted in 1865, viewers at the Paris Salon were aghast. “Spectators were sobbing, shouting, getting into scuffles; the Salon had to hire armed guards,” writes ...

Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there has been. As the reluctant father of Impressionism, and the painter of Dejeuner sur l'herbe, he can probably be ...