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Edouard Manet was born on January 23, 1832 in Paris into the family of August Manet, an officer in the Ministry of Justice, and his wife Eugénie-Désirée, née Fournier, daughter of a diplomat. His uncle, Edmond-Edouard Fournier, gave the boy his first lessons in drawing. In 1844-1848, Manet studied at the College Rollin, where he met his lifelong friend Antonin Proust. In 1848-49, he was trained as a sea cadet on a voyage to Brazil, but in April 1849 he failed his naval examinations and decided to switch to painting. He entered the studio of Thomas Couture, where he studied for 6 years, between 1850 and 1856. In 1856, he took a long travel through Europe.
            After traveling in Germany, Austria and Italy to study the Old Masters, Manet finally found the answer to all his questionings and aspirations for light and truth in the paintings of Velasquez and Goya at the Louvre. Influenced by these masters and by the example of Courbet, a French realist painter, he gradually evolved a new technique which presented modern aspects by modern methods. Read Edouard Manet's Full Biography

	The Absinthe Drinker. 1858-1859. Oil on canvas. Ny Carlsberg-Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark.
	Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet (the Parents of Edouard Manet). 1860. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note.
	Surprised Nymph (Nymphe surprise). 1861. Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read Note.
	The Street Singer. c. 1862. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA.

	The Old Musician. c. 1862. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Mlle Victorine Meurent in the Costume of an Espada. 1862. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Read Note.
	Portrait of Victorine Meurent. 1862. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. Read Note.
	Lola de Valence. 1862. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note.

	Guitar and Hat. 1862. Oil on canvas. Musée Calvet, Avignon, France.
	The Spanish Ballet. 1862. Oil on canvas. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA.
	Music in the Tuileries Gardens. 1862. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
	Oysters. 1862. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.

	The Picnic on the Grass (also: Luncheon on the Grass, French: Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe). 1862-1863. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note.
	Olympia. 1863. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note.
	The Angels at Christ's Tomb. (Les Anges au tombeau du Christ, Le Christ mort aux anges). 1864. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Read Note.
	Still Life with Eel and Red Muller. 1864. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	Peonies in a Vase. c.1864. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	Peony Stem and Shears. 1864. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	Branch of White Peonies and Shears. 1864. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	Still Life: Fruit on a Table. 1864. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama. 1864. Oil on canvas. The John G. Johnson Art Collection, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Read Note.
	Women at the Races. 1864-1865. Oil on canvas. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA.
	The Dead Toreador. 1864. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet). 1865-1866. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Angélina. 1865. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	Bull-Fighting Scene. 1865-1866. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
	A King Charles Spaniel. c. 1866. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Still Life with Melon and Peaches. c.1866. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Woman with a Parrot. 1866. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
	The Fifer. 1866. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	The Execution of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. 1867-1868. Oil on canvas. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany. Read Note.
	The Execution of Emperor Maximilian. 1867. Four fragments. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
	The Universal Exhibition. (L'Exposition universelle de 1867). 1867. Oil on canvas. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway.
	Soldier (fragment of "The Execution of Maximilian". 1867-1868. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
	Portrait of Emile Zola. 1867-1868. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note.
	Portrait of Théodore Duret. 1868. Oil on canvas. Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, France. Read Note.