TY - JOUR T1 - ÉDOUARD’S FRIENDS JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 154 LP - 154 DO - 10.3399/bjgp13X664388 VL - 63 IS - 608 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2013/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/63/608/154.1.abstract N2 - Manet: Portraying Life is at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London W1, until 14 AprilÉdouard Manet could afford to be both an artistic outsider and a Parisian socialite. His well-heeled family paid for him to study painting for 5 years, to take the Grand Tour, and to set up his own salon in 1856. Visitors to the Royal Academy will be confronted by a large reproduction of Fantin-Latour’s L’Atelier aux Batignolles, which has Manet painting Zacharie Astruc, while Zola, Renoir, and Monet look on. He counted among his friends Offenbach, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Charles Beaudelaire, to whom his wife reputedly played … ER -