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Édouard Manet

1832 - 1883

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Édouard Manet (UK: , US: ; French: [edwaʁ manɛ]; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born into an upper-class household with strong political connections, Manet rejected the naval career originally envisioned for him; he became engrossed in the world of painting. His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) and Olympia, premiering in 1863 and '65, respectively, caused great controversy with both critics and the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon were praised by progressive artists as the breakthrough acts to the new style, Impressionism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Manet is the 29th most popular painter (down from 27th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from France (down from 47th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Painter.

Édouard Manet is most famous for his paintings of Parisian life in the 1860s.

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Among painters, Édouard Manet ranks 29 out of 2,023. Before him are Donatello, Titian, Gustav Klimt, El Greco, Wassily Kandinsky, and Piet Mondrian. After him are Eugène Delacroix, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miró, and Marc Chagall.

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Among people born in 1832, Édouard Manet ranks 1. After him are Gustave Eiffel, Maximilian I of Mexico, Louisa May Alcott, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, Nikolaus Otto, Gustave Doré, José Echegaray, Edward Burnett Tylor, and Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. Among people deceased in 1883, Édouard Manet ranks 3. Before him are Karl Marx, and Richard Wagner. After him are Ivan Turgenev, Gustave Doré, Emir Abdelkader, Henri, Count of Chambord, Dayananda Saraswati, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Midhat Pasha, Charles II, Duke of Parma, and Joseph Plateau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Manet ranks 52 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), Denis Diderot (1713), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), and Brigitte Bardot (1934). After him are Octave Mirbeau (1848), Henri Becquerel (1852), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Stendhal (1783), Michel de Montaigne (1533), and Pierre de Fermat (1601).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Édouard Manet ranks 7. Before him are Claude Monet (1840), Henri Matisse (1869), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), and Paul Gauguin (1848). After him are Eugène Delacroix (1798), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), Nicolas Poussin (1594), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864).

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