When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon ... Taking Titian's Venus of Urbino as his model, Manet creates a work he thinks will grant him a place in the pantheon of great artists.
Édouard Manet was one of the most famous and influential painters of the 19th century. His style bridged the gap between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism with his often revolutionary works.
His work has drawn comparisons to both Edouard Manet due to the artist's fluid brushwork and choice of unnerving subject matter. “I do not work thematically. But ultimately, works from a certain ...
Though associated with the Impressionists and Édouard Manet in particular, Fantin-Latour remained a ... and would copy Old Masters paintings at the Louvre. Fantin-Latour’s works are in the collections ...