Édouard ManetFrance, 1832–1883La Lecture
The Reading
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Musée d'Orsay
Paris, France
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About the painting
La Lecture est un tableau réalisé par le peintre Édouard Manet vers 1865. La toile représente la famille de l'artiste: Suzanne Manet, née Leenhoff, est assise sur le canapé et, tout en tournant le dos à son fils Léon Leenhoff, écoute avec attention la lecture qu'il est en train de faire à voix haute.
La Lecture fait partie des portraits les plus célèbres de Mme Manet, tout comme Madame Manet au piano.
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- RF 1944 17
Au catalogue
Sources
- Wikidata · obtenue il y a 6 jours
- Image : Musée d'Orsay — Édouard Manet · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Pendant ce temps, chez Édouard Manet
La vie entière1863
“The Luncheon on the Grass” at the Salon des Refusés
The Salon of 1863 rejected “The Luncheon on the Grass” (originally “Le Bain”), and Manet exhibited it at the Salon des Refusés, a parallel exhibition initiated by Napoleon III after a public outcry, the jury having accepted only 2,217 of more than 5,000 submissions. The juxtaposition of dressed men and a nude woman and the sketch-like handling caused a scandal; one critic compared the brushwork to a “floor mop”.
1863
Marries Suzanne Leenhoff
In 1863, a year after his father's death, Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff at a Protestant church: a Dutch-born piano teacher two years his senior with whom he had been romantically involved for about ten years. Auguste Manet had employed her to teach his sons the piano, and she may also have been Auguste's mistress.
1863
Married: Suzanne Manet
1865
“Olympia” at the Salon: a scandal
In 1865 the Salon accepted “Olympia”, and the frank depiction of a self-assured prostitute created a scandal; according to Antonin Proust, only the precautions taken by the administration prevented the painting from being punctured and torn. The popular press caricatured it, while the avant-garde, including Courbet, Cézanne and Monet, championed it.
after 1865
Café Guerbois and the Batignolles group
After returning from Spain Manet became a regular at the Café Guerbois in the Batignolles quarter, where Fantin-Latour, Whistler, Duranty, Degas, Renoir, Monet and Pissarro gathered, with Émile Zola as Manet's ardent defender. After harsh reproaches from Duranty, Manet challenged him to a duel and wounded him, but they made up and remained good friends until Manet's death.
1867
His own pavilion near the Pont de l'Alma
In 1867, during the World's Fair in Paris, Manet set up his own pavilion near the Pont de l'Alma and showed fifty of his best works of the past ten years. Possibly this step led to his works being accepted at the next two Salons.
