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Manet, Meissonier and the Artistic Revolution
In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. The darling of the `Salon' - that all-important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris - he painted historical subjects in meticulous detail and sold his works for astronomical sums to collectors who included Napoleon III himself. Manet, on the other hand, was struggling in obscurity. Famous today as the Father of Impressionism, when this book opens he was known only as the sloppy painter of a few much-derided canvases depicting absinthe-drinking beggars and bourgeois gentlemen in top hats.
With his usual narrative brilliance, and eye for telling detail, Ross King has taken the parallel careers of Meissonier and Manet and used them as a lens for their times. Beginning with the year that Manet exhibited his ground-breaking Dejeuner sur l'herbe and ending in 1874 with the first `Impressionist' exhibition, King plunges us into Parisian life - on the streets and in the corridors of power - during a ten-year period full of social and political ferment. These were the years in which Napoleon III's autocratic and pleasure-seeking Second Empire fell from its heights into the ignominy of
the Franco-Prussian war and the ensuing Paris Commune of 1871. But it was also a period in which a group of artists, with Manet in the vanguard, began to challenge the establishment by refusing to paint classical or historical subjects and, instead, turning to the landscapes and ordinary people they saw around them. Benign as such paintings might seem today, they helped change the course of history. The struggle between Meissonier and Manet to get their paintings exhibited in pride of place at the Salon was not just about art, it was about how to see the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Ross King is the author of the hugely popular Brunelleschi's Domeand Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, both of which spent many weeks in the New York Timesbestseller lists. He is also a novelist and lives near Oxford.
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'King is a master at linking pivotal moments in art history to epic rivalries ... In his third supremely engaging and illuminating inquiry, King summons fourth mid-nineteenth-century Paris and vividly portrays two diametrically opposed artists'- Booklist
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