Editing Édouard Manet (section)

===Late works===
[[File:"Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère" by Édouard Manet (1882).jpg|thumb|''[[A Bar at the Folies-Bergère]] (Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère)'', 1882, [[Courtauld Gallery]], London]]
In his mid-forties Manet's health deteriorated, and he developed severe pain and [[hemiplegia|partial paralysis]] in his legs. In 1879 he began receiving [[hydrotherapy]] treatments at a spa near [[Meudon]] intended to improve what he believed was a [[circulatory disease|circulatory problem]], but in reality he was suffering from [[Tabes dorsalis|locomotor ataxia]], a known side-effect of [[syphilis]].{{sfn|Meyers|2005|p=80}}<ref>"Manet, Édouard" in ''[[Benezit Dictionary of Artists]]''. [http://www.oxfordartonline.com/public/book/oao_benz Oxford Art Online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110140409/http://www.oxfordartonline.com/public/book/oao_benz |date=10 January 2016 }} ([[Oxford University Press]]), accessed 23 November 2013 (subscription required).</ref> In 1880, he painted a portrait there of the opera singer [[Émilie Ambre]] as [[Carmen]]. Ambre and her lover Gaston de Beauplan had an estate in Meudon and had organized the first exhibition of Manet's ''[[The Execution of Emperor Maximilian]]'' in New York in December 1879.<ref name="Tinterow">{{cite book|last1=Tinterow|first1=Gary|last2=Lacambre|first2=Geneviève|author2-link=Geneviève Lacambre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4somoplUFVwC&pg=PA503|title=Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting|date=2003|page=503|publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]|isbn=978-1588390400}}</ref>

In his last years Manet painted many small-scale [[still life]]s of fruits and vegetables, such as [[A Bundle of Asparagus|''A'' ''Bunch of Asparagus'']] and ''The Lemon'' (both 1880).{{sfn|Mauner|Loyrette|2000|pp=96–100}} He completed his last major work, ''[[A Bar at the Folies-Bergère]] (Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère)'', in 1882, and it hung in the Salon that year. Afterwards, he limited himself to small formats.

Manet's last paintings were of flowers in glass vases.{{sfn|Mauner|Loyrette|2000|p=144}} There are 20 such paintings known, with the last one painted in March 1883, barely two months before his death.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Mauner |first=George L. |title=Manet: The Still Life Paintings |publisher=Harry N. Abrams, Inc. |year=2000 |isbn=0-8109-4391-3 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=144 |language=English}}</ref> Quoted in Venice thirteen years later, Manet is credited with stating that an artist can say everything he has to say with "flowers, fruit, and clouds." His last flower paintings are a demonstration of that belief.<ref name=":0" />

In 2023, the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York City exhibited a two-person exhibition of Manet with [[Edgar Degas|Degas]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=21 September 2023 |title=Manet and Degas: A Masterful Pas de Deux at the Met |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/arts/design/manet-degas-met-museum.html |access-date=16 November 2023 |archive-date=28 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128041349/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/arts/design/manet-degas-met-museum.html |url-status=live }}</ref>