Édouard Manet was born on 23 January 1832 in former 10th arrondissement of Paris. A French painter, Manet was a bridge between realism and impressionism. His large canvases Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia scandalized the Paris public in the 1860s with their modern subjects, flat handling of space and frank gaze, though he never officially joined the Impressionists. Younger painters such as Monet, Renoir and Degas admired him and gathered around him. His late masterpiece, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, shows his mix of everyday observation and illusion. He died after a long illness that affected his legs.
Before and after
- 14 November 1831Death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 19 November 1831Birth of James A. Garfield
- from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836Second voyage of HMS Beagle
- from 1832 to 1835Republic of Indian Stream
- 23 January 1832Birth of Édouard Manet
- 27 January 1832Birth of Lewis Carroll
- from 6 February 1832 to 9 February 1832First Sumatran expedition
- 22 March 1832Death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 19 April 1832Birth of José Echegaray
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