A Studio at the Batignolles

Nonetheless, in Fabric of Vision, Anne Hollander broached the question of Impressionism’s contribution to our understanding of men’s fashions.Hollander 2002. In particular, she carried out a subtle analysis of one of the variations of Gustave Caillebotte’s famous The Pont de l’Europe (1876–77; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth), which features three males in...

WRITING in 1904 soon after Fantin-Latour’s death, the French critic Charles Morice issued a sharp critique of the artist’s œuvre:

Nineteenth-century practice was to varnish paintings at the very last minute, when the work was already hanging in the exhibition: oil paintings had to be left the maximum time possible to dry before the varnish was applied. The vernissage, varnishing day – the day before the exhibition opened to the public – was an institution during...

~The Garden was not a Salon painting. The only white dress to show up in Manet’s next Salon was worn by a child, in The Railway (fig. 95). In the Salon of 1874, Manet showed this painting and a little watercolor of Punchinello with a poem...