ARTIST: Édouard Manet


Édouard Manet portrait by Nadar


Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
1862-1863
Oil on canvas
81.9 × 104.5"
Musee d'Orsay, Paris


Olympia
1863
Oil on canvas
51.4 × 74.8"
Musee d'Orsay, Paris


A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
1882
Oil on canvas
Courtauld Institute of Art, London

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The Nauary 07 issue of Art in America has an interesting article on Manet and Nadar and the photographic quality of the light in Manet's paintings: very unusual for the time apparently because the lighting comes from the position of the viewer as from a camera's flash bulb.

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