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1850 Manet enters Couture's studio in the Rue de Laval (today Rue
Victor-Massé), where Antonin Proust joins him. But he soon
rebels against Couture's methods. Manet stands out clearly
above all the other students.
1851 In December, according to Proust, Manet does a drawing
showing the identification of dead bodies at the Montmartre
cemetery.
1852 January 29. Birth of Léon-Edouard Leenhoff, son of Suzanne
Leenhoff, a young Dutchwoman, born in 1830. Probably Manet
was the father of the child. He had met Suzanne Leenhoff in his
father's home where she gave piano lessons. Officially Manet
was the godfather of the child, who first knew Suzanne as
his godmother and later passed as her younger brother.

1853 Birth of Vincent Van Gogh.

1855 At the Louvre Manet copies "The Little Horsemen," a painting
then attributed to Velazquez.

At Couture's studio Manet paints a canvas strongly disap-
proved of by his teacher. His fellow students take Manet's
side, congratulate him on the picture and cover his easel
with flowers. Couture's retort: "My friend, if you have any
pretension to being the head of a school, go set it up elsewhere."

1855 Large-scale exhibition of works by Ingres, Delacroix and
Théodore Rousseau at the Paris World's Fair. Courbet exhibits
in a pavilion of his own under the banner of Realism.

1856 Probably about Eastertime, Manet leaves Couture's studio.
He and Count Albert de Balleroy, also a painter, rent a studio
jointly in the Rue Lavoisier. He travels to The Hague, Amster-
dam, Dresden, Munich and Vienna, then to Florence, Rome
and Venice, haunting the museums.

1856 Duranty launches a review called "Le Réalisme." Courbet
paints "Girls on the Banks of the Seine."

1857 Manet meets Fantin-Latour at the Louvre.

In 1857, or thereabouts, Manet and Antonin Proust pay a
visit to Delacroix. At the Louvre Manet copies Delacroix
"Dante and Virgil in Hell."

1857 Baudelaire publishes "Les Fleurs du Mal."

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Publication Information: Book Title: Manet. Contributors: Georges Bataille - author, Austryn Wainhouse - transltr, James Emmons - transltr. Publisher: Albert Skira. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1955. Page Number: 6.
    
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