Edouard Manet

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Not to be confused with Claude Monet, another painter of the same era.
Édouard Manet

portrait by Nadar
Birth name Édouard Manet
Born 23 January 1832(1832-01-23)
Paris
Died 30 April 1883 (aged 51)
Paris
Nationality French
Field Painting
Movement Realism, Impressionism
Works The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe), 1863

Olympia , 1863
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère), 1882


Édouard Manet (French pronunciation: [edwaʁ manɛ]), 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883, was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism. Today these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.