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Édouard Manet (UK: / ˈ m æ n eɪ /, US: / m æ ˈ n eɪ, m ə ˈ-/; [1] [2] French: [edwaʁ manɛ]; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) 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.
Argenteuil is an 1874 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet (1832-1883), first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1875. [1] [2] It is one of Manet's first works to be regarded as a fully Impressionist painting due to its naturalistic style and its bold palette. [3]
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art).For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists.
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Portrait of Eva Gonzalès, 1869–70, by Édouard Manet. Eva Gonzalès (19 April 1849 – 6 May 1883) was a French Impressionist painter. She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Berthe Morisot (1841–95), and Marie Bracquemond (1840–1916).
Claude Monet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (left panel), Musée d'Orsay, Paris Edouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863. The painting depicts twelve people clothed in Parisian fashion of the time. They are having a picnic near a forest glade. The people are gathered around a white picnic blanket, surrounded by fruits, cake and wine.
In 1874, he helped prepare for the first major Impressionist exhibition, where he held a retrospective of his works. He also participated in their second exhibition, [ 2 ] focusing on landscapes but, as the years progressed, he turned away from pure Impressionism and introduced more elements of Realism into his work.
Édouard Manet (1832–1883), French impressionist painter; Édouard de Max (1869–1924), Romanian-French actor; Édouard Mendy (born 1992), Senegalese footballer; Édouard Ménétries (1802–1861), French entomologist; Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), French tyre magnate; Édouard Mortier (1768 - 1835), Marshal of Empire