Mr. and Mrs. Édouard Manet
Edgar Degas · 1869
Why it's great
A man reads a newspaper in a chair as a woman sits at the piano, smiling gently. Degas painted his friend Manet and his wife Suzanne. Manet later cut a piece off the canvas because he didn't like how Suzanne looked, which upset Degas. It's a famous story.
Where to see it
📍 Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of ArtKitakyushu, Japan
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Edgar Degas was born in Paris to a well-to-do family and lived there almost all his life. He's linked to the Impressionists, but preferred to work indoors, painting ballet dancers, racehorses, and women at their daily routines. He loved to catch unusual angles, as if a camera had snapped the scene. In old age his eyesight failed and he turned to sculpture.
