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His uncle, Edmond Fournier, encouraged him to pursue painting and took young Manet to the Louvre. In 1841 he enrolled at secondary school, the Collège Rollin
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In 1845, at the advice of his uncle, Manet enrolled in a special course of drawing where he met Antonin Proust, future Minister of Fine Arts and subsequent lifelong friend.
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After he twice failed the examination to join the Navy, his father relented to his wishes to pursue an art education.
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From 1850 to 1856, Manet studied under the academic painter Thomas Couture.
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From 1853 to 1856, Manet visited Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, during which time he was influenced by the Dutch painter Frans Hals, and the Spanish artists Diego Velázquez and Francisco José de Goya.
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In 1856, Manet opened a studio. His style in this period was characterized by loose brush strokes, simplification of details and the suppression of transitional tones.
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He painted The Absinthe Drinker (1858–59) and other contemporary subjects such as beggars, singers, Gypsies, people in cafés, and bullfights.
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Manet had two canvases accepted at the Salon in 1861. A portrait of his mother and father, who at the time was paralysed and robbed of speech by a stroke.
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Manet marries Suzanne Leenhoff in 1863 after his father died in 1861.
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Manet painted several boating subjects in 1874. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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He completed painting his last major work, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère , in 1882 and it hung in the Salon that yea
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