Literature & essays

FRENCH LANGUAGE

"I did what I saw", said Manet. Is it that simple? Is the author of the Déjeuner sur l'herbe, the portraits of Zola, Mallarmé, Clemenceau and Berthe Morisot, the painter of cafés-concerts and boating, who jokingly defined himself as "the Saint Francis of still life", the first of the modern painters? Or is he the one who, beyond academicism, revived the great tradition? From Olympia (1863) to the Bar des Folies Bergère (1882), Françoise Cachin retraces the life of this pure Parisian, who loved the sea, women, and above all painting.

French language
160 pages / 220 illustrations

Coédition Découvertes Gallimard / RMN - Grand Palais
Collection Découvertes Gallimard (n° 203), Série Arts, Gallimard