Q 01/05

Which novelist championed Manet in the press and sat for a portrait by him in 1868?

A) Victor Hugo

B) Gustave Flaubert

C) Émile Zola

D) Alexandre Dumas

Answer · why

C) Émile Zola

Émile Zola defended Olympia in print against its many critics, and in Manet's portrait of the young novelist a print of that scandalous nude hangs on ...

Q 02/05

Manet twice failed the entrance exam for which career?

A) Architect

B) Naval officer

C) Diplomat

D) Cavalry officer

Answer · why

B) Naval officer

Naval officer was the compromise: his father, a judge, wanted a lawyer and Manet wanted to paint. He sailed to Rio on a training ship, failed the navy...

Q 03/05

Under which academic painter did the young Manet train in the 1850s?

A) Thomas Couture

B) Charles Gleyre

C) Jean-Léon Gérôme

D) Alexandre Cabanel

Answer · why

A) Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture urged his pupils to paint modern life, yet when Manet showed him The Absinthe Drinker he is said to have replied that the only absinthe...

Q 04/05

Which two Spanish masters and one Dutchman shaped Manet's early style?

A) Velázquez, Murillo and Rembrandt

B) El Greco, Goya and Vermeer

C) El Greco, Murillo and Frans Hals

D) Velázquez, Goya and Frans Hals

Answer · why

D) Velázquez, Goya and Frans Hals

Velázquez, Goya and Frans Hals: Manet met their work by copying in the Louvre and on trips abroad in the 1850s, and after a later visit to Spain he ca...

Q 05/05

At which 1863 alternative exhibition was Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe shown?

A) Salon des Refusés

B) Salon d'Automne

C) Salon des Indépendants

D) Exposition Universelle

Answer · why

A) Salon des Refusés

The Salon des Refusés was Napoleon III's answer to artists protesting that year's harsh jury. Crowds came largely to laugh, but the uproar made Manet'...