Édouard Manet -French Artist

Édouard Manet  (23 Jan

uary 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a

 French painter. One of the first nineteenth 

century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition

 from Realism to Impressionism.

His early masterworks

 The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as

 rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism—today these are considered watershed

 paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.