manet

     

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

Trivia about manet

  • "Monet Working on his Boat in Argenteuil" was an 1874 work by this similarly-named master
  • This "Olympia" painter did illustrations for a French translation of Poe's poetry
  • This "Bar at the Folies-Bergere" artist painted several portraits of Impressionist Berthe Morisot, his sister-in-law
  • His "Olympia" was a new version of the recumbent Venus popular with Italian masters
  • His "Olympia" was accepted for the Salon, but after the scandal it caused, few of his later works were
  • His 1866 painting of "The Fifer" was less scandalous than his nude "Olympia"
  • His "Luncheon on the Grass" caused a major scandal at the Salon des Refuses
  • His painting "The Fifer", seen here, dates from 1866:
  • In 2004, an unidentified buyer purchased this artist's 1872 "Races at the Bois de Boulogne" for $26 million
  • Victorine Meurend, his "Chanteuse des rues", is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe"
  • Berthe Morisot, the first female impressionist, was the sister-in-law of this "Luncheon on the Grass" painter
  • Suzon is the name of the barmaid in his masterpiece seen here