Édouard Manet
1832–1883 · painter · France
Arts and ideas34 years old in 1866
Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1832
- 184816 years old
- 185220 years old
- 185220 years oldCézanne and Zola meet at school
- 187038 years old
- 187442 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibition
- 187543 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
- 188351 years oldDies
Connected to
- ÉZ
Émile Zola · critic and painter
1866 Zola defended Manet in the press while critics resisted him, and Manet painted his portrait in 1868.
Source: wikipedia:Édouard_Manet - BM
Berthe Morisot · in-laws
1874 A friend and fellow painter of Manet's, she married his brother Eugène in 1874.
Source: wikipedia:Berthe_Morisot
