A reunion is taking place in room 41 of London’s National Gallery. Among early Impressionist masterpieces like Claude Monet’s ...

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have brought together 140 works in Manet/Degas, a comparative exhibition combining world famous masterpieces from their ...

Manet’s bored prostitute in her unmade bed ... For us, it means going without the most famous painting in the museum. “But the fact that there’s been this research, this rereading of ...

The other role Meurent plays in the traditional art history narrative is that of not just Manet’s muse but also his lover. There is, however, no real evidence supporting the notion that the two ...

Two titans of modern art — and famous frenemies — face off in New ... in a show that tends to put the spotlight on Manet’s blockbusters. Degas’s aunt Laura, in mourning for her father ...

But in this painting, titled Édouard Manet and His Wife, the wife of the famous French painter no longer has a piano to play nor hands to play it with. When Edgar Degas painted the portrait ...

Gustave Courbet is one of the most famous names in Realism and his paintings explain why ... is another beautiful example of Realism by Manet and features three people. The three of them can ...

Édouard Manet began painting his masterpiece in 1863 ... the jewelry or the hibiscus in her hair — is Meurent’s famous gaze. Those serenely appraising eyes refuse to be traduced by any ...

Today, Meurent is known to students all over the world not as a painter but as the woman who posed for the most famous nude of the 19th century: Manet’s “Olympia.” That painting presented ...

The paintings that inspired her one-minute bursts of theatricality are by Whistler, Homer, Hopper, Rembrandt, Manet and many others ... monologues inspired by famous artworks.