Édouard Manet: We thought we knew him. An upper-class bon vivant, a fervent modernist who flouted artistic traditions but remained a realist even as he blazed a path for the Impressionists (whom ...

Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was ...

In Édouard Manet’s famed 1863 painting, a woman—a courtesan, in fact—reclines on a chaise lounge. She is naked and her body is pale, almost muscular, her legs short and knobby.

Édouard Manet's Olympia will soon make its United States debut in a new exhibition. Musée d’Orsay. When Édouard Manet’s Olympia debuted in 1865, viewers at the Paris Salon were aghast ...

MANET: A MODEL FAMILY. Through Jan. 20. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way. 617-566-1401, www.isgm.org. Murray Whyte can be reached at [email protected].