- Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour
Édouard Manet became one of the decisive figures in the transition from nineteenth-century Realism to modern painting. Works such as Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia provoked scandal by combining art-historical quotation with contemporary subjects and an insistently flat, painted surface.
Painting; printmaking
Works in Collections
Fish (Still Life)
1864 · Oil on canvas
73.5 × 92.4 cm (28 15/16 × 36 3/8 in.); Framed: 108.6 × 127 × 12.7 cm (42 3/4 × 50 × 5 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago →
Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers
1865 · Oil on canvas
190.8 × 148.3 cm (74 7/8 × 58 3/8 in.); Framed: 240.1 × 196.9 cm (94 1/2 × 77 1/2 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago →
Woman Reading
1880–82 · Oil on canvas
61.2 × 50.7 cm (24 1/16 × 19 7/8 in.); Framed: 83.2 × 73.1 × 9.9 cm (32 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago →
Major Works
- 1862Music in the Tuileries
- 1863Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe
- 1863Olympia
- 1864The Dead Christ with Angels
- 1866The Fifer
- 1868–69The Execution of Emperor Maximilian
- 1868–69The Balcony
- 1873The Railway
- 1877Nana
- 1882A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
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