Armstrong, Carol. Manet Manette. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002
Edouard Manet
Died: Paris, 30 April 1883
Nationality: French
bourgeois
with Thomas Couture (1850-56)
1859 – Paris Salon committee refuses Absinthe Drinker
1861 – exhibits Spanish Singer (1860, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and M and Mme Manet (1860, Musée d’Orsay, Paris) at Salon; regularly submits paintings to the Salon throughout his career, though they are often rejected
1862 – founder-member of the Société des Aquafortistes (Society of Etchers)
1863 – Salon committee refuses three paintings, including Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe; exhibits instead at Salon des refuses
1865 – exhibits Olympia at the Salon; scandal ensues
1867 –excluded from Exposition universelle (Paris); organizes independent exhibition nearby and issues pamphlet Tableaux de M. Edouard Manet
1875 – illustrates Stéphane Mallarmé’s translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven
1881 – wins second-class medal at Salon, thereby exempted from jury in future submissions; awarded Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur
1882 – exhibits Bar at the Folies-Bergere at Salon
Travels
Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy (1856); Florence (1857); Netherlands (1872); Venice (1875)
Students
Absinthe Drinker, 1859 (Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen)
The Execution of Emperor Maxmilian, 1867 (final sketch, Ny Carlsburg Glyptothek)
Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882 (Courtauld Institute, London)
Boating, 1874 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)