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Manet/degas exhibition 2024...
Manet / Degas
Currently on view atThe Met through January 7, Manet/Degas tells a story of novelistic depth about a complex friendship and rivalry that led to one of the most significant artistic dialogues of modern art and ends (sort of) with Manet’s death and Degas’s blindness
Common biographical threads
As the exhibition Manet / Degas sets out, many of the details of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas’s biographies run in striking parallel.
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Manet was born in ; Degas in —both in Paris, both to affluent families. Manet took up a failed apprenticeship as a sailor before studying painting at the studio of Thomas Couture, a French history painter and teacher. Degas studied law before training as a painter at, among other places, the famed École des Beaux-Arts.
As part of their independent studies, both men traveled extensively in Italy in the s, immersing themselves in masterpieces of European art, many of which they copied. Reputedly, they met at the Louvre in the early s. Degas was