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The Best Paintings By Manet At Musée d'Orsay – Five Not To Miss
There are 49 artworks by the French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) at the Musée d'Orsay.
Even for a museum dedicated to the 19th century Impressionists, that's quite a few paintings by one artist. Manet was the spiritual father of a younger generation of painters who longed to be free from the constraints of the stuffy Paris Salon, the annual state-sponsored art show.
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Manet was revolutionary in painting scenes of everyday people engaged in activities like relaxing on the beach, in bars, cafes, and theaters. He didn't depict the ideal, classical world that the École des Beaux-Arts encouraged.
In fact, Manet scorned rules and conventions and is today considered the master of the painters collectively called the pre-Impressionists. We love roaming the rooms of the d'Orsay to find all of Manet's works exhibited there.
But for a quicker tour, here are five of his paintings not to miss w