When Edouard Manet began to study painting in 1850, Paris' familiar, broad, tree-lined streets did not yet exist, and the life of the city was not a subject artists explored. Young artists could expect to succeed only through the official Academy exhibitions known as Salons, whose conservative juries favored biblical and mythological themes and a polished technique. Within twenty-five years, however, both Paris and painting had new looks. Renovations had opened the wide avenues and parks we know today, and painting was transformed when artists abandoned the transparent glazes and blended brushstrokes of the past and turned their attention to new techniques and to life around them. Contemporary urban subjects and a bold style, which offered paint on the canvas as something to be admired in itself, gave their art a strong, new sense of the present.
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The absinthe drinker 1859 |
Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Auguste Manet 1860 |
The Spanish Singer 1860 |
A boy with a dog 1861 |
A boy with a pitcher 1862 |
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Lola de Valence 1862 |
Music in the Tuileries Garden 1862 |
Street Singer 1862 |
The old musician 1862 |
Victorine Meurent 1862 |
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Olympia 1863 |
The Luncheon on the Grass 1863 |
Young man in the costume of a majo 1863 |
Basket of Fruits 1864 |
Battle of Kearsage and Alabama 1864 |
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The Bullfight 1864 |
The Dead Christ with Angels 1864 |
Vase of Peonies on a Small Pedestal 1864 |
Jesus mocked by the Soldiers 1865 |
The dead toreador 1865 |
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The monk at prayer 1865 |
Still life with melon and peaches 1866 |
The Fifer 1866 |
A matador 1867 |
Races at Longchamp 1867 |
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The philosopher 1867 |
The Execution of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico 1868 |
The salmon 1868 |
In the garden 1870 |
Portrait of Eva Gonzales 1870 |
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Portrait of Suzanne Manet 1870 |
Interior at Arcachon 1871 |
Berthe Morisot with a bouquet of violets 1872 |
Berthe Morisot with a Fan 1872 |
Bouquet of violets 1872 |
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View of Holland 1872 |
A Good Glass of Beer 1873 |
Croquet 1873 |
Polichinelle 1873 |
Railway 1873 |
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Tarring the Boat 1873 |
The Masked Ball at the Opera 1873 |
Argenteuil 1874 |
Boating 1874 |
Madame Manet on a Blue Sofa 1874 |
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Monet in his Studio Boat 1874 |
The Monet family in their garden at Argenteuil 1874 |
The grand canal of Venice. Blue Venice 1875 |
Nana 1877 |
Plum 1878 |
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Self-portrait with skull-cap 1878 |
The road-menders, Rue de Berne 1878 |
Woman fastening her garter 1878 |
At the Cafe-Concert 1879 |
Portrait of Emilie Ambre in role of Carmen 1879 |
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Portrait of Georges Clemenceau 1879 |
Portrait of Monsieur Brun 1879 |
Self Portrait with a Palette 1879 |
Singer at a Cafe-Concert 1879 |
The waitress Bocks 1879 |
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Bundle of aspargus 1880 |
Corner of a Cafe-Concert 1880 |
Isabelle Lemonnier with a muff 1880 |
Madame Manet at Bellevue 1880 |
Portrait of Clemenceau at the tribune 1880 |
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Still Life with Brioche 1880 |
The ham 1880 |
The Lemon 1880 |
The Suicide 1880 |
Young woman in the garden 1880 |
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Jeanne Martin in pink dress 1881 |
Rochefort's Escape 1881 |
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere 1882 |
Autumn. Study of Mery Laurent 1882 |
Bouquet of flowers 1882 |
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Lilac in a glass 1882 |
Pinks and Clematis in a Crystal Vase 1882 |
The House at Rueil 1882 |
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