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Personal and Family Histories Illuminate the Work of Two Artists and a Collector

Certain scholarly insights cannot be generated without understanding how the artist’s family curated and financed his work, argues the author of a new book on Édouard Manet.

Detail from Édouard Manet’s  "Self-Portrait with Palette" painted in 1878–79.
Detail from Édouard Manet’s "Self-Portrait with Palette" painted in 1878–79. Via Wikimedia Commons

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