Синопсис
Profile of Edouard Manet, who is considered the first impressionist, but refused to exhibit with other artists of the movement. Waldemar Januszczak chronicles the life of the Frenchman, famous for his painting Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe, from his rebellion against his father as a young man and his dramatic private life involving numerous affairs to his death from syphilis and gangrene.