Edouard Manet
Title: Edouard Manet
Category: /Arts & Humanities
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Edouard Manet
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 530 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Edouard Manet was born in Paris on January 23, 1832, the son of a high government official. To avoid studying law, as his father wished, he went to sea. He then studied in Paris under the academic French painter Thomas Couture and visited Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands to study the paintings of the old masters. The Dutch painter Frans Hals and the Spanish artists Diego Velázquez, and Francisco Jose de Goya were
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and hurried to Paris. Of all the Impressionist artists, he was the only one to serve as a pallbearer at the funeral, which took place on May 3. Soon after Manet's death a noticeable change in the general attitude toward his works took place. The Prices began to rise. In Janurary 1884, less than a year after Manet's death, a large retrospective was mounted at the Ecole desBeaux-Arts with the help of Berthe Morisot and her husband.