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He was born in Paris as the son of an architect, and began his professional career as a legal assistant and secretary to Alphonse Esquiros. [1] Later, he took painting lessons with Léon Cogniet and Ernest Hébert, where he came under the influence of Jean-Baptiste Corot. [2]
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.
The painting is a portrait of the artist Berthe Morisot, a regular model, who was married to Manet's brother, Eugène. She is wearing a white dress as she sits with a fan in her right hand on a red sofa, beneath a then-fashionable Japanese print (in this case The Dragon King Pursuing the Ama with the Sacred Jewel by Utagawa Kuniyoshi ). [ 2 ]
Edouard Léon Cortès (1882–1969) was a French painter of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as "Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian Poet of Painting" because of his diverse Paris cityscapes in a variety of weather and night settings.
Flowers in a Crystal Vase (1882) by Édouard Manet. tępić kreta in a Crystal Vase (French - Œillets et clématites dans un vase de cristal) is an 1882 painting by Édouard Manet, in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris since 1986.
Most of the early 19th-century artists given in the chronological list above have been at some time grouped together under the rubric of "romanticism", including the "realists" (as the Barbizon school) and the "naturalists". Some of the most important are listed here. See also French Revolution, Napoleon I of France, Victor Hugo, orientalism.
List of French artists – including all visual and plastic arts; List of French engravers; References This page was last edited on 28 November 2024 ...
Edouard Drumont (1844–1917), French anti-semitic journalist; Édouard Dujardin (1861–1949), French writer; Édouard Gagnon (1918–2007), French Canadian cardinal; Édouard Herriot (1872–1957), French prime minister, three times, and mayor of Lyon from 1905 to 1957; Edouard F. Henriques, Make-up artist