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French Students Explore the Art and Life of Manet


French Students Explore the Art and Life of Manet

On January 15, 2024, Central Catholic's French 2 and 3 students traveled to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston to explore the exhibition titled Manet: A Model Family.

About the Exhibit

Manet: A Model Family

October 10, 2024 - January 20, 2025

Hostetter Gallery - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Every artist has their muses. For Édouard Manet (1832-1883), one of those muses was family. But the home life of the French painter was complicated, even by today’s standards. Manet: A Model Family, on view in the Hostetter Gallery from October 10, 2024 – January 20, 2025, explores how despite complexities between relatives, the Manet family lived happily—from a wife who had once been in the household’s employ to a child of questionable paternity to a mother who disinherited Édouard’s surviving kin. They were also the artist’s most frequent models, a crucial source of financial and emotional support, as well as creative inspiration. Immortalized in groundbreaking bold brushstrokes, Édouard Manet's loved ones enriched his life and his art. After his death, they cultivated his legacy and ensured that his work would never be forgotten.

Now, nearly 150 years since his passing, Manet: A Model Family at the Gardner Museum is the first exhibition to explore Manet through the lens of the complex familial relationships between and amongst the artist and his sitters, shedding new light on the life and masterpieces of the "father of modernism."

This field trip enhances the Art Unit that students explore in French 2 and 3 classes and encourages students to engage with art in a meaningful way through observation and discussion.

Students exploring the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Students made a stop for breakfast at Time Out Market where students were able to order French food from the Petit Robert Bistro Creperie and the Petit Robert Bistro Boulangerie.

Thank you to faculty members and chaperones who made the trip possible!

  • Mrs. Jennifer Chatigny, Visual Arts Teacher
  • Mr. Jeremy Hay '90, World Language Teacher
  • Mrs. Colette Madore, World Language Teacher
  • Mrs. Kimberly Saviano, World Language Teacher
Students at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum