Thanks Tosh. Your one remark about the actual size of the Folies Berger intrigued me because I had never thought of it except in my memory which, as you imply, is larger than the actual place.
Although I love his work, that love comes with an asterisk. I've kind of always thought of Manet as the snob-impressionist by exhibiting at the Paris Salon and later not joining La Société Anonyme of painters, sculptors, and engravers of the Impressionist movement, who in 1873 organized as a public limited company to escape the formidable restrictions of the Paris Salon. But maybe he was just older than those who congregated at Nadar’s photography studio on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, and I'm too harsh on him...
Thanks Tosh. Your one remark about the actual size of the Folies Berger intrigued me because I had never thought of it except in my memory which, as you imply, is larger than the actual place.
Although I love his work, that love comes with an asterisk. I've kind of always thought of Manet as the snob-impressionist by exhibiting at the Paris Salon and later not joining La Société Anonyme of painters, sculptors, and engravers of the Impressionist movement, who in 1873 organized as a public limited company to escape the formidable restrictions of the Paris Salon. But maybe he was just older than those who congregated at Nadar’s photography studio on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, and I'm too harsh on him...