Reading the Art World: Diana Greenwald, "Manet: A Model Family"

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Listen to our latest podcast episode featuring Diana Seave Greenwald, curator of the exhibition Manet: A Model Family at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and editor of the associated catalogue, published by Princeton University Press.

Manet: A Model Family offers a fascinating look at the personal life and family relationships that shaped one of art history's most influential painters. Greenwald, Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, reveals how Édouard Manet's complex family dynamics—including his relationship with his mother, his marriage to his brothers' piano teacher, and his role as godfather to her son—influenced his artistic development and provided him with willing models for his groundbreaking works.

“For all the ink spent on Manet's engagement with other artists and time in cafes and he's a bohemian and he's this charming guy and he's a luminary of this moment in Paris, his family was important to him. And it's in the visual record.”

– Diana Seave Greenwald

Diana Seave Greenwald is an art historian and economic historian. An expert in 19th century American and French art, she is currently William & Lia Poorvu curator of the collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Prior to joining the Gardner, Diana was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., working in the departments of American and British Paintings and Modern Prints and Drawings. She received a D.Phil. in History from the University of Oxford. Before doctoral study, Diana earned an M.Phil. in Economic and Social History from Oxford and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from Columbia University.

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