ARTIST

Édouard Manet

1832–1883 · France

Scandalous modernist who shocked Paris by painting everyday life and became the reluctant father of Impressionism.

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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.

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NOTABLE WORKS
The Absinthe Drinker 1859 · Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copy after Delacroix's "Bark of Dante" 1859 · Metropolitan Museum of Art Les petits cavaliers 1860 · Cleveland Museum of Art The Little Cavaliers 1860 · Art Institute of Chicago The Boy Carrying a Tray 1860 · Cleveland Museum of Art Edgar Allan Poe 1860 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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