Sex, Drugs, & Rococo

A piano teacher, unconfirmed paternity, and a lifetime of copying Spanish portraits--we look closely into the personal life of painter Edouard Manet. In our welcome back batch of Sex, Drugs, & Rococo, Impressionism, we focus on the portrait of "Boy with a Sword" as a glimpse into the Father of Impressionism's fatherhood.  In this episode, listeners will determine if paternity makes for a better portrait, and consider they ways Manet fathered, or didn't father, a movement.     Show Images:  l’Enfant à l'épée Edouard Manet 1861, oil on canvas, 51.6cm x 36.7cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Show Sources: Web sources: Boy Carrying a Sword Art and History: The Mystery of Leon, Édouard Manet's Son Suzanne Manet https://www.wikizero.com/www/Suzanne_Manet http://www.edouard-manet.net/boy-with-a-sword/ http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/paintings-analysis/balcony-manet.htm https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/collection-of-stories/leon-edouard-koella/#:~:text=L%C3%A9on%20Leenhoff%20(1852%E2%80