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Édouard Manet Art Prints

Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

5 museum-quality prints of works by Édouard Manet, each made to order on archival paper and shipped to your wall.

Édouard Manet (1832–1883) trained for six years under Thomas Couture while copying Velázquez and Titian in the Louvre, and became the pivotal figure between Realism and Impressionism. Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, shown at the Salon des Refusés in 1863, and Olympia, exhibited in 1865, made him the most notorious painter in Paris. The mid-1860s also produced his rare religious pictures, among them Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers (1865), condemned by critics for its unidealized realism, and the Spanish subjects — including bullfights — that intensified after his 1865 trip to Madrid, where he studied Velázquez and Goya firsthand.

Manet declined to exhibit with the Impressionists, holding that the Salon was the true field of battle, yet he shared their subjects and lightened his palette under their influence. Still life ran through his whole career, from Fish (1864) to the small canvases of fruit and flowers painted from his sickbed.