Édouard Manet

Artist

Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was born into a wealthy Parisian family and turned down the naval career his father had planned for him in order to paint. Trained with Thomas Couture, he shocked the Paris art world with Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, shown at the Salon des Refusés in 1863, and Olympia in 1865: modern people, painted flatly and frankly, without mythological excuses. The younger Impressionists saw him as their leader, though he never exhibited with them, preferring to fight for recognition at the official Salon. His last great work was A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882). We print his portrait of the painter Berthe Morisot with a muff (around 1868), from Cleveland, and Flowers in a Crystal Vase, one of the small flower pieces he painted in his final year.

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