A reunion is taking place in room 41 of London’s National Gallery. Among early Impressionist masterpieces like Claude Monet’s ...

Although Léon appeared in at least 18 Manet oil paintings and various works on paper, he almost never appears as the subject of a conventional portrait. In one picture he is a fifer, in another ...

Painted around 1876, the portrait of Bob the dog was commissioned by the opera singer and art collector Jean-Baptiste Faure. Faure owned an impressive 67 works by Manet (as well as works by his ...

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 ...

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In Édouard Manet’s famed 1863 painting, a woman—a courtesan ... it marks a deliberate change from Titian’s Venus of Urbino, where a dog, a symbol of fidelity, sleeps soundly at the goddess ...

Families, we’re told, are complicated, and being a pillar of Modern art is no free pass. But how do Manet’s specific dramas inflect the work? Since “Olympia,” his boundary-smashing ...

Claude Monet may be the more popular and beloved artist, but Édouard Manet is surely the more pivotal figure in the history of modern art. Last year, he got a lot of attention in the monumental ...

Not all paintings of dogs are doom and gloom ... “A King Charles Spaniel” by Edouard Manet Edouard Manet was a French painter ...

Who, indeed? Putting aside the absurdity of Claretie’s question—Olympia was a common nom de guerre in brothels—the answer is Victorine Meurent, the model, musician and artist wrongly framed ...

1885 Courtesy Hindman English dog paintings are not the only canine portraits having a paws-itive impact on auction house balance sheets this season. Last month, Edouard Manet’s Tête du chien ...