Exhibition Opening: Manet & Morisot at The Legion of Honor
Villa Albertine is proud to promote the upcoming Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco exhibition, Manet & Morisot.
Experience the first major exhibition dedicated to the artistic exchange at the heart of Impressionism, and the friendship between Impressionist artists Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. We invite you to visit the Legion of Honor to experience these groundbreaking artists and explore themes of intercultural friendship and the reciprocal artistic exchange.
Until now, their story has been told primarily as one of Manet’s influence on his female colleague and occasional model, Morisot. Manet & Morisot sets the record straight, exploring these artists’ mutual influence and parallel evolution. From their first encounter and Manet’s impact early in Morisot’s career to his final years, when he increasingly emulated her subjects, colors, and even her free, open brushstrokes, this exhibition invites you on a journey through a friendship that shaped the course of modern art.
On view through March 1st, 2026.
More information and tickets here.
A Closer Look with Emily Beeny
Legion of Honor
October 11th, 2025, 1:00pm
Experience the friendship of two artists at the heart of the Impressionist movement: Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot
Join Emily Beeny – Manet Expert and the exhibition’s originating curator – for a lecture exploring the related highlights in FAMSF’s permanent collection. This month’s discussion will explore the mutual influence and inspiration between Manet and Morisot, whose rich and multifaceted relationship spanned that of colleagues and collaborators, painter and model, collectors of each other’s work, and, following Morisot’s marriage to Manet’s brother, family.
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A Closer Look: Manet & Morisot
A Conversation on Three Impressionist Friendships
Legion of Honor
October 18th, 2025, 1:00pm
Friends, colleagues, collaborators, and competitors: these are just some of the ways one might consider the connections between Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, Manet and Edgar Degas, and Degas and Mary Cassatt. Don’t miss an illuminating conversation featuring leading curators of recent exhibitions that have explored these three relationships for a wide-ranging discussion of mutual influence and inspiration within the Impressionist circle.
Featured speakers include Kimberly Jones, Curator of 19th-Century French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and originating curator of Degas/Cassatt; Ashley Dunn, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Met and co-curator of the acclaimed Manet/Degas exhibition; and Emily A. Beeny, Chief Curator of the Legion of Honor and Barbara A. Wolfe Curator in Charge of European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. A specialist in French paintings and drawings of the 17th–19th centuries, Beeny has led major acquisitions, overseen the reinstallation of the Legion’s Baroque galleries, and previously held curatorial appointments at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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