BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly described ...

For almost as long as artists have been painting floral still lifes, the subject has been doubted or belittled when it hasn’t been dismissed. Even the great Dutch flower paintings of the early 1600s ...

San Francisco’s Legion of Honor stages a superb exhibition that reveals the ways in which the two French painters influenced each other over decades in the late 19th century.

It has long been recognized that 17th-century Spanish painting exerted a powerful, transforming influence on 19th-century French painting, and thus It has long been recognized that 17th-century ...

Camille Pissarro (French,1830-1903) "Still Life" (1867) oil on canvas, 31 7/8 in. x 39 ¼ in. A pitcher of red wine paired with a half loaf of crusty bread and fruit on a white tablecloth seems like a ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In 1864, the year Édouard Manet painted his dead bullfighter, a gleaming ...

Eight little things (a scene, a joke, a building, a pizza, a dance, a painting, a lyric, a sound) worth your time. By Jason Farago This shoe appears in Édouard Manet’s “Mademoiselle V … in the Costume ...

The works of French artists Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot have been exhibited in museums around the world over the past century. But no major exhibition has explicitly explored the creative ...