Édouard Manet, January 23, 1832–April 30, 1883, was a French painter and printmaker. Born in Paris, he studied with Thomas Couture from 1850 to 1856 and copied works in the Louvre while completing study trips in Europe.

Manet maintained professional and personal associations with Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and other artists and writers in Paris. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and organized independent exhibitions of his work. Eva Gonzalès was his only formally acknowledged pupil.

Major collections of Manet’s work are held by the Musée d’Orsay, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the National Gallery in London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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