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Suzanne en Edouard Manet: De liefde van een Hollandse pianiste en een Parijse schilder by nl: Thera Coppens, 2014.

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Abrams in association with the American Federation of Arts, 2000. "The Man with the Sword: Edouard Manet's Double-Edged Works". Degas never got around to fixing the painting and it remains in its slashed state in the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art in Japan. Degas intended to re-paint the likeness of Suzanne at the piano and he reiterated his intention to Ambroise Vollard in conversation with him around the turn of the century. When Degas saw what had been done to his painting he demanded its return, and he took it back. Manet might have slashed the painting because he did not like the way Suzanne was painted, or because he was feuding at the time with Degas, or he might have been angry with his wife.

The supposition is that Manet, for an unknown reason, cut the painting. The mystery that surrounds the portrait by Degas is the fact that the painting has been slashed from top to bottom and right through the likeness of Suzanne. Manet is reclining on a couch and Suzanne appears to be seated at a piano. Sometime in 1868 Degas painted a portrait of Manet and his wife. Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas met by chance at the Louvre in 1862, and after an intense conversation and Manet's demonstration on the art of etching, they became lifelong friends. He also appears as the boy carrying a tray in the background of The Balcony.

Most famously, he is the subject of the Boy Carrying a Sword of 1861 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Édouard never publicly confirmed Léon as his son. Suzanne and Édouard were finally married in October 1863, a year after the death of Édouard's father. Léon was baptised in 1855, and became known as Suzanne's young brother. The birth certificate gave Leenhoff as the mother but "Koëlla" as the father, an individual never identified and likely invented. (Leenhoff may also have been Auguste's mistress.) Leenhoff gave birth out of wedlock to a son, Léon-Edouard Koëlla, on 29 January 1852. After Édouard left his parents' home, he and Suzanne lived together, although they kept their relationship discreet and secret, especially from Édouard's father. In their early twenties, Suzanne and Édouard developed a personal relationship and were romantically involved for some ten years. Auguste was a domineering figure in Édouard's life, insisting that his son study law and avoid the arts. Édouard Manet, Interior at Arcachon (Mme Manet and Léon Leenhoff), 1871, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MassachusettsĪn excellent pianist, Leenhoff was initially hired in 1851 by Manet's father, Auguste, as a piano teacher for Édouard and his brothers.