Édouard Manet follows Nana and The Plum…

Édouard Manet follows Nana and The Plum with The Blonde with Bare Breasts (1878, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), in which his subject's pearl-white flesh tones gleam with light.

He plans a private exhibition rather than submit to the jury of the World's Fair to be held that year, but it never materializes.

Manet's paintings do badly at auctions of the Faure and Hoschedé collections.

He becomes an uncle when Morisot gives birth to her daughter Julie Manet.