Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was ...

Édouard Manet: We thought we knew him. An upper-class bon vivant, a fervent modernist who flouted artistic traditions but remained a realist even as he blazed a path for the Impressionists (whom ...

In the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s “Manet: A Model Family,” about Édouard Manet’s enigmatic relationships, everything is transfixing and nothing adds up.

Édouard Manet, "Reading," about 1868–1873. (Courtesy Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Photo by Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY) Another, more subdued portrait of Leenhoff playing the piano (also from ...

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].

In his first year as Cambodia ’s new prime minister, Hun Manet has walked a fine line between honouring his father’s legacy and charting a new, more technocratic course for the nation. He has ...

If the CPP under Manet’s rule can effectively run the state in the eyes of everyday Cambodian citizens, there would be no need for an opposition party. Exactly how Manet’s legitimacy as ruler plays ...

When Manet started his “Portrait of the Artist (Manet with a Palette)” (c. 1878–79), he was in his mid-40s and more than 10 years past his miracle years of 1862–65, when he graced the ...

The Manet-Degas rivalry often manifested in their choice of subject matter, says Ashley Dunn, the show’s other co-curator. When Manet painted a dead toreador , Degas painted a fallen jockey in a ...

Manet’s consummately modern image debuted at the Salon of 1865, ... “A painted corpse,” decried the influential writer-brothers Edmund and Jules de Goncourt. “Putrefied,” described another.

Manet was as uneven with faces as he was with bodies; here, you look at, rather than into, the prostitute’s eyes, and her elbow sticks out ever so slightly more than an actual human being’s.