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Manet / Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 24, 2023–January 7, 2024
This exhibition examines the close and sometimes tumultuous relationship between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Born only two years apart, Manet and Degas were friends, rivals, and, at times, antagonists.
The exhibition contains more than 160 paintings and works on paper and is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Musées d’Orsay and de l’Orangerie, Paris.
From the museum label: Manet's work was accepted at the Salon for the first time in 1861, with this portrait and the Spanish Singer, on view in the next gallery. The reception of these paintings reassured his parents of his ability to embark on an artistic career. His father's health was failing at the time of this work and he died two years later. Manet remained especially close with his mother, who lived with him and his wife.
Link to other Manet paintings
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Édouard Manet’s Music Lesson highlights the role of music in the artist’s life. It features a young man playing guitar alongside a seated woman, referencing the intimate musical gatherings that Manet and his wife hosted. The man depicted is the poet and critic Zacharie Astruc, a known friend of Manet. First exhibited in 1873, critics praised the painting’s interplay of light, shadow, and texture, particularly in the guitar and the expressive details of the figures. The work is a testament to Manet’s skill in capturing both atmospheric and personal narratives. Music Lesson entered the MFA collection in 1969 as a centennial gift in memory of Charles Deering.
The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1870 and relocated to its current neoclassical building designed by architect Guy Lowell at 465 Huntington Avenue in 1909. The museum's vast collection spans over 500,000 works of art, with highlights including ancient Egyptian artifacts, 18th- and 19th-century American art, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces, and a renowned collection of Asian art. Originally located in a Gothic Revival building in Copley Square, much of the museum’s early collection came from the Boston Athenaeum Art Gallery. Over the years, the museum expanded significantly, adding the Decorative Arts Wing in 1968, the Norman Jean Calderwood Garden Court and Terrace in 1997, and a modern Americas Wing in the mid-2000s designed by Foster and Partners.
Manet / Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 24, 2023–January 7, 2024
This exhibition examines the close and sometimes tumultuous relationship between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Born only two years apart, Manet and Degas were friends, rivals, and, at times, antagonists.
The exhibition contains more than 160 paintings and works on paper and is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Musées d’Orsay and de l’Orangerie, Paris.
Manet / Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 24, 2023–January 7, 2024
This exhibition examines the close and sometimes tumultuous relationship between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Born only two years apart, Manet and Degas were friends, rivals, and, at times, antagonists.
The exhibition contains more than 160 paintings and works on paper and is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Musées d’Orsay and de l’Orangerie, Paris.
Manet visited the Haarlem museum in 1872. He undoubtedly came especially for Frans Hals, whom he had admired since his early childhood. This boy with a jug is reminiscent of Hals's popular types in terms of subject matter, and the manner with loose brushstrokes and the dark background, is also Hals-like.
Manet saw a direct connection between Hals and Spanish baroque art, for example by Velásquez. He said: 'I cannot believe that Hals was not a Spaniard too. It would not be so strange after all, he came from Mechelen.' Mechelen was in the Spanish Netherlands.
Exhibition Frans Hals and the Moderns, Frans Hals Museum Haarlem
Manet / Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 24, 2023–January 7, 2024
This exhibition examines the close and sometimes tumultuous relationship between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Born only two years apart, Manet and Degas were friends, rivals, and, at times, antagonists.
The exhibition contains more than 160 paintings and works on paper and is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Musées d’Orsay and de l’Orangerie, Paris.