Édouard Manet Prints
1832–1883 · French · Realism / Impressionism
Wall art by Édouard Manet, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
16 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet was born in Paris in January 1832 into a prosperous family, studied for six years from 1850 in the studio of Thomas Couture, and opened his own studio in 1856. He spent his whole career in Paris and sought official recognition at the Salon rather than joining the independent Impressionist exhibitions, though the younger painters regarded him as their leader. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected by the Salon of 1863 and shown at the Salon des Refusés, where its modern-dress picnic with a nude woman scandalised visitors; Olympia, accepted in 1865, caused a greater uproar. Manet painted contemporary Paris, cafés, racecourses, the railway, with flat areas of colour, strong blacks and little half-tone, a directness learned partly from Velázquez and Goya. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1881, and A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, finished in 1882, was his last major painting; he died in April 1883, aged fifty-one. Manet's pictures are built from bold, simplified shapes, so they lose little in reproduction: the barmaid, the bottles, the mirror and the chandeliers of the Folies-Bergère are as legible on a wall as in the Courtauld.