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With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and the rivalry between Meissonier and Manet.
While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the…
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The premise of this book is inspired. King spotlights the Paris art world during the decade preceding the ground-breaking 1st Impressionist exhibition in 1874. For his subjects, he takes an unlikely duo – Ernest Meissonnier (the academic painter who specialised in closely worked historical and military scenes) and Edouard Manet (the master of modern life and enfant terrible who inspired the Impressionists). The author moves backwards and forwards between the men’s different creative projects, plotting their relationship to the Paris Salon, that all-important, state-sponsored exhibition that could make or break an artist at the time. In so doing, King gives…
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