PARIS — Slipshod, careless, haphazard: This is how Édouard Manet’s more generous critics saw his endeavors during his lifetime. The public, when it wasn’t laughing, mostly concurred. And as a result, this most urbane and ambitious of painters, the son of a senior Parisian judge, was subject to a quarter century of the most discouraging ridicule.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM on April 23, 2011