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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 (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.
La Nymphe surprise, or Surprised Nymph, is a painting by the French impressionist painter Édouard Manet, created in 1861. The model was Suzanne Leenhoff , a pianist whom he married two years later. The painting is a key work in Manet's production, marking the beginning of a new period in his artistic career and generally in the history of ...
It shows a group of people playing croquet, a very fashionable game at that time. The group comprises the painter Alfred Stevens, artists' models Victorine Meurent and Alice Legouvé and, in the background, Manet's friend Paul Rodier. [1] In style this painting represented Manet's closest approach to impressionism. Croquet at Boulogne, 1871
171.1 × 113 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) The Fifer: 1866: 161 × 97 cm: Musée d'Orsay (Paris) A Young Lady in 1866: 1866: 185.1 × 128.6 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) The Execution of Emperor Maximilian: 1868: 252 × 305 cm: Kunsthalle Mannheim: Portrait of Emile Zola: 1868: 146 × 114 cm: Musée d'Orsay (Paris) Boy ...
Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air .
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 Café-Concert is an 1879 painting by the French painter Édouard Manet, who often captured café scenes depicting social life at the end of the nineteenth century similar to those depicted in this painting. [1]