BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly ...

In the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s “Manet: A Model Family,” about Édouard Manet’s enigmatic relationships, everything is transfixing and nothing adds up.

The two resulting artworks, "At the Café" and "Corner of a Café-Concert," both bear witness to vibrant social scenes from 19th-century Paris ...

Grâce à une programmation originale et un large accueil des scolaires autour de l’œuvre « Anguille et rouget », d’Édouard ...

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 murray.whyte@globe.com.

Édouard Manet, "Reading," about 1868–1873. (Courtesy Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Photo by Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY) Another, more subdued portrait of Leenhoff playing the piano (also from ...

Manet’s private life further buffed his outsider allure. He was close to the Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot — indeed, they might have married had she not wed Manet’s brother Eugène instead — and ...

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 ...

Edouard Manet. Posted in Books ... Émile Zola relates the sword fight between the painter and critic Edmond Duranty after he penned a lukewarm review of Manet’s work. Posted in News ...

For the first time in 150 years, the two halves of the artist's 1878 café scene will be reunited at London's National Gallery. L: Edouard Manet, Au café (1878). Photo: The Swiss Confederation ...

The painting seems innocent enough. Edouard Manet slumps on a sofa, lost in thought or perhaps bored; his wife, Suzanne, plays the piano. This scene of cosy bourgeois domesticity was captured in ...