Figuring a Family: Édouard and Suzanne Manet

Emily Beeny & Diana Greenwald

Thursday, October 17, 2024
7 - 8:30 pm
Calderwood Hall

Édouard Manet is celebrated as an artist who revolutionized painting in nineteenth-century France with his uniquely bold brushwork, remixing of famous historical compositions, and unconventional scenes of everyday life. Manet’s family members were his frequent models, as well as his emotional and financial support system. Yet, his family relationships—particularly his connection to his wife Suzanne and her son Léon—and their critical role in his work has remained underexplored. 

Join Emily Beeny (Chief Curator of the Legion of Honor and Barbara A. Wolfe Curator in Charge of European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) and the curator of Manet: A Model Family, Diana Seave Greenwald (William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Gardner Museum) in conversation as they discuss how Manet’s paintings reveal family intimacies and inspirations and how his family’s support enabled his success in his lifetime—and his enduring legacy.

About The Speakers

Advanced tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults $30, Members $20, seniors $25, students and children 17 and under $15.

Seating in Calderwood Hall is first come, first served. Seating begins 45 minutes before the event. Late seating is not guaranteed.

To request accessible or wheelchair seating please call the box office at 617 278 5156

Manet: A Model Family is supported in part by the Ford Foundation, Amy and David Abrams, Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, Susan Adams Taylor, and by an endowment grant from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

The conservation of Madame Auguste Manet was sponsored by the Richard C. von Hess Foundation. 

The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.