When Edouard Manet began to study painting in 1850, Paris' familiar, broad, tree-lined streets did not yet exist, and the life of the city was not a subject artists explored. Young artists could expect to succeed only through the official Academy exhibitions known as Salons, whose conservative juries favored biblical and mythological themes and a polished technique. Within twenty-five years, however, both Paris and painting had new looks. Renovations had opened the wide avenues and parks we know today, and painting was transformed when artists abandoned the transparent glazes and blended brushstrokes of the past and turned their attention to new techniques and to life around them. Contemporary urban subjects and a bold style, which offered paint on the canvas as something to be admired in itself, gave their art a strong, new sense of the present.
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The absinthe
drinker
1859 |
Portrait of
Monsieur and Madame
Auguste Manet
1860 |
The Spanish Singer
1860 |
A boy with
a dog
1861 |
A boy with
a pitcher
1862 |
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Lola de Valence
1862 |
Music in the
Tuileries Garden
1862 |
Street Singer
1862 |
The old musician
1862 |
Victorine Meurent
1862 |
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Olympia
1863 |
The Luncheon
on the Grass
1863 |
Young man in
the costume of
a majo
1863 |
Basket of Fruits
1864 |
Battle of Kearsage
and Alabama
1864 |
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The Bullfight
1864 |
The Dead Christ
with Angels
1864 |
Vase of Peonies
on a Small Pedestal
1864 |
Jesus mocked
by the Soldiers
1865 |
The dead
toreador
1865 |
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The monk at
prayer
1865 |
Still life with
melon and peaches
1866 |
The Fifer
1866 |
A matador
1867 |
Races at
Longchamp
1867 |
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The philosopher
1867 |
The Execution of
the Emperor Maximilian
of Mexico
1868 |
The salmon
1868 |
In the garden
1870 |
Portrait of
Eva Gonzales
1870 |
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Portrait of
Suzanne Manet
1870 |
Interior at
Arcachon
1871 |
Berthe Morisot
with a bouquet
of violets
1872 |
Berthe Morisot
with a Fan
1872 |
Bouquet of
violets
1872 |
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View of Holland
1872 |
A Good Glass
of Beer
1873 |
Croquet
1873 |
Polichinelle
1873 |
Railway
1873 |
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Tarring the Boat
1873 |
The Masked Ball
at the Opera
1873 |
Argenteuil
1874 |
Boating
1874 |
Madame Manet
on a Blue Sofa
1874 |
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Monet in his
Studio Boat
1874 |
The Monet family
in their garden
at Argenteuil
1874 |
The grand canal
of Venice.
Blue Venice
1875 |
Nana
1877 |
Plum
1878 |
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Self-portrait
with skull-cap
1878 |
The road-menders,
Rue de Berne
1878 |
Woman fastening
her garter
1878 |
At the
Cafe-Concert
1879 |
Portrait of
Emilie Ambre in
role of Carmen
1879 |
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Portrait of
Georges Clemenceau
1879 |
Portrait of
Monsieur Brun
1879 |
Self Portrait
with a Palette
1879 |
Singer at a
Cafe-Concert
1879 |
The waitress
Bocks
1879 |
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Bundle of aspargus
1880 |
Corner of a
Cafe-Concert
1880 |
Isabelle Lemonnier
with a muff
1880 |
Madame Manet
at Bellevue
1880 |
Portrait of Clemenceau
at the tribune
1880 |
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Still Life
with Brioche
1880 |
The ham
1880 |
The Lemon
1880 |
The Suicide
1880 |
Young woman
in the garden
1880 |
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Jeanne Martin in
pink dress
1881 |
Rochefort's Escape
1881 |
A Bar at the
Folies-Bergere
1882 |
Autumn.
Study of
Mery Laurent
1882 |
Bouquet of flowers
1882 |
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Lilac in a glass
1882 |
Pinks and Clematis
in a Crystal Vase
1882 |
The House
at Rueil
1882 |
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