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.
Portrait photograph by Nadar, c. 1866–1867
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Édouard Manet by Henri Fantin-Latour (1867), Art Institute of Chicago
Music in the Tuileries, 1862
Olympia is an 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid. The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subs
Édouard Manet
…envisioned for him; he became engrossed in the world of painting. His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (French: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe) and Olympia, premiering in 1863 and '65, respectively, caused great controversy with both critics and the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon were praised by progressive…
Edouard Manet Olympia Google Art Project FXD
Paul Cézanne, A Modern Olympia (c. 1873/74)
Giorgione, Sleeping Venus (c. 1510), also known as the Dresden Venus
Titian, Venus of Urbino (1538)