# Manet: A Model Family - Hardcover

by **Diana Seave Greenwald** (Editor), **Hilton Als** (Contribution by), **Nancy Locke** (Contribution by)

**A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manet's family to his art**

All families are complicated, but the family of ?douard Manet (1832-1883) was more complicated than most. The artist married a piano teacher who worked for his wealthy parents. Her son, born out of wedlock, may have been ?douard's, his father's, or another man's. For all its complexities, Manet's family fueled his creativity. They were his most frequent models, and supported him emotionally and financially. _Manet: A Model Family_ is an innovative new exploration of the largely neglected story of the importance of Manet's family to his art.

Presenting new research on works in which Manet depicted family members, _Manet: A Model Family_ shows how an understanding of the artist's family sheds crucial light on his artistic career. Manet's mother, wife, stepson, and other relatives--including his sister-in-law, the painter Berthe Morisot--are given long overdue recognition for their roles in Manet's life and work. Leading scholars present technical and archival analysis, including redating _Madame Auguste Manet_, an important, newly conserved painting of Manet's mother. In an essay inspired by that canvas, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Hilton Als reconsiders Manet's formative relationship with his mother and his bourgeois Parisian roots.

With its original account of Manet's domestic relationships and personal life, _Manet: A Model Family_ humanizes the artist and his contributions to the birth of modernism.

Published in association with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

**Exhibition Schedule**  
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston  
October 10, 2024-January 20, 2025

### Author Biography

**Diana Seave Greenwald** is the William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. She is the author of _Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art_ and, with Nathaniel Silver, _Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life_. She is also the editor of _Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer_ and, with Casey Riley, _Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums_ (all Princeton).

**Number of Pages:** 224

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 11.8 x 9.3 IN

**Publication Date:** October 29, 2024

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