The Intricate Bond: Manet and Degas Unveiled

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibit, Manet/Degas, explores the complicated personal and professional relationship between French painters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. The exhibit showcases loans from the Musee D'Orsay and the Met's own collection, including Manet's groundbreaking work Olympia, which is making its first-ever trip to America. The exhibit delves into their differing exhibition strategies, their influence on each other's art, their shared experiences in Parisian society, and their involvement in the Franco-Prussian war. It also highlights the uneven distribution of portraits each artist made of the other and the legendary first meeting between the two. Manet/Degas is on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York until January 7th.