An elderly bearded man reads a large open book

An elderly man with a full white beard and thick swept-back white hair sits in a wooden armchair, absorbed in a large open book propped on the table before him. He wears a dark, cross-hatched jacket, and his hand holds the edge of the book as he reads with lowered eyes. The etched lines are built from dense, crossing pen strokes, darkest in the background and around his coat, leaving the book's pages and his hair in pale, untouched paper.

Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was the painter around whom modern French art turned. Trained under Couture and steeped in Velázquez and Goya, he scandalised the Salon with Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe and Olympia (1863), then painted the bars, railways, gardens and flower pieces of contemporary Paris with a flat, direct touch that the Impressionists adopted, though he never exhibited with them. His paintings are held by the Musée d'Orsay, the National Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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