In 1863, Édouard Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, his well-to-do family’s piano teacher. That she came part and parcel with a son, Léon, was no doubt a scandale in the Parisian haute-bourgeosie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ART REVIEW Manet, Degas, and the nude that changed everything A major new show at the Met brings ‘Olympia’ to the US for the first time and with it a story of two artists’ catalytic friendship.

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

In his last years, as he was dying of complications from syphilis, artist Édouard Manet was in agonizing pain — but you'd never know it from his exquisite flower bouquets and vibrant portraits.

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.

CHICAGO — Édouard Manet was succumbing to the ordeal of late-stage syphilis when he painted some of the freshest, most affecting flower paintings in the history of art.

Edouard Manet’s imposing 1882 painting of a winsome, weary barmaid at the Folies-Bergère has cast a long shadow across the final years of the artist’s life. Manet died the next year, at age ...

Manet’s ambition was to have his work shown and lauded at the annual Salon of the august École des Beaux-Arts, while Degas was instrumental in founding an alternative yearly showcase, the anti ...