Édouard Manet had exhibited at the Salon…
December 1881 CE
Édouard Manet had exhibited at the Salon Portrait of M. Pertuiset the Lion Hunter and Portrait of M. Henri Rochefort, for which he is awarded a second-class medal.
Now seriously ill, he rents a villa at Versailles and in December is created Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.