Edgar Degas, Manet Seated, Turned to the Left, ca. 1866–68
During the 1860s, when Degas was very active as a portraitist, he made his friend Manet the subject of a group of drawings and prints. MET
Victorine Meurent (1844 – 1927) was a French painter and a famous model. She is best known as Manet’s muse, modeling for numerous paintings including his two masterpieces, The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia. She also modeled for other painters including Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Meurent first presented her own work at the 1876 Paris Salon, in total she exhibited in the Salon six times.
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), Un atelier aux Batignolles (A Studio in the Batignolles), 1870
The Batignolles was the district in Paris where Manet had his studio and many of the future impressionists lived. Seated in front are Edouard Manet (the painter) and sculptor Zacharie Astruc. The standing figures, from left to right, painter Otto Scholderer, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the only one wearing a hat, art critic Emile Zola, musician Edmond Maitre, Frederic Bazille, and Claude Monet on the extreme right.
Edouard Manet, Portrait of his sister-in-law, Berthe Morisot
Edouard Manet, Claude Monet Painting on His Studio Boat, 1874. Neue Pinakothek, Munich
