The Women Behind Édouard Manet’s Seasons
Who are the mysterious women behind Manet’s most famous portraits?
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All Posts by Emily Beeny
I’m associate curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Before recently returning to the Getty, where I was previously curatorial assistant in the Department of Paintings, I was associate curator at the Norton Simon Museum and assistant curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Exhibition Manet and Modern Beauty Explores the Artist’s Last Years
A new exhibition focuses on Manet as a painter of modern life.
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Snail Mail: A Letter from Édouard Manet
A charming watercolor provides insight into the French artist’s private world
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The Birth of Pastel
When is a drawing not a drawing?
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Labeling Turner
Writing the gallery label for a painting can sometimes feel like an art form in itself, a kind of circumscribed descriptive poetry not unrelated... Read More