An introduction to the artworks collected in the National Gallery of Art, featuring updated, revised, and expanded articles from Inside scoop, the Gallery's quarterly children's publication. Includes brief biographies and selective insights into the lives and works of over 50 art...
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"The Savarays are at the center of bourgeois Parisian society, as supporters of the Impressionist movement, friends of ©|douard Manet, and citizens relatively unaffected by the Franco-Prussian war raging beyond their estate - until their beloved adopted son Henri, a burgeoning ar...
"Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. Bu...