Below you will find a range of biographical sources of information about Manet.

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Discover a range of “zoomable” artworks by Manet

The writer Emile Zola described Manet as “an analytic painter” and rarely are his powers of analysis displayed more dazzlingly than in Music in the Tuileries Gardens.

This page will lead you to discover more resources about other artworks including: Olympia, Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), The Railway, Émile Zola, The Balcony, Plum Brandy, In the Conservatory, Corner of a Café-Concert, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère & A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Raine, C. (2013, February 1). Everything but the girl: the subtle sexuality of Edouard Manet. New Statesman, 142(5143), 39.

To the left of the central figure in Edouard Manet’s The Luncheon (1868) there is a black cat, bent over its genitals–assiduously wheedling and scouring with its sandpaper tongue. Easily overlooked, it is a quiet…

This page provides an progression outline of his most important works.

Schwabsky, B. (2011). An Unfinished Tradition. Nation, 292(25), 32–35.

The article discusses nineteenth-century painter Édouard Manet. Topics noted include novelist Émile Zola’s prediction of Manet’s eventual commercial success, the view of some of Manet’s contemporary critics that his works lacked a finished quality to them, the opinion of later critics that Manet’s art was indeed cohesive and complete, the lack of a sense of tranquility in many of Manet’s pieces, the influence exerted upon Manet by his mentor Thomas Couture, and an exhibit of Manet’s work at the Musée d’Orsay museum in Paris, France that runs through July 3, 2011.