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Apartment · Quartier de l'Europe (8th) · 8e arrondissement

39 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg

The buildingStill standing
Getting inOutside only
What's there nowA building

Private, and unmarked.

The apartment Édouard Manet moved to in 1878 and remained associated with until his death in 1883, in the last years when illness had reduced what he could physically paint.

Address
39 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg, 75008 Paris
Years
Manet's address from 1878 until his death in 1883
IllustrationColour photorealistic view of 39 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg beneath a bright blue sky

The same private and unmarked building in colour.

Editorial illustration

The place, briefly

Édouard Manet took an apartment here in 1878, a few doors along the same street from the studio he had just given up, and the address stayed his until he died in 1883.

These were hard years. Manet was seriously ill — the illness is generally identified as locomotor ataxia arising from syphilis — and walking, standing and working all became progressively harder. The work adapted rather than stopped: the late still lifes of fruit and flowers, small and close at hand, come from a painter who could no longer stand at a large canvas for long.

The last major picture, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, was shown at the Salon in 1882. Manet died on 30 April 1883, aged fifty-one, and is buried in the family tomb at Passy Cemetery.

Key facts

Manet lived here
1878 until his death in 1883
Health
Severely ill in these years; mobility increasingly limited
Late work
The small still lifes, and A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Salon of 1882)
Died
30 April 1883, aged fifty-one
Access
Private building — exterior only

In images

The present-day exterior of Manet's last address, where he lived from 1878 to 1883.Editorial illustration
The same private and unmarked building in colour.Editorial illustration

Timeline

  1. 1878

    Manet moves into 39 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg.

  2. 1882

    A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is shown at the Salon.

  3. 1883

    Manet dies on 30 April and is buried at Passy Cemetery.

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Questions before you go

Where did Manet live at the end of his life?

At 39 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg in the 8th arrondissement, from 1878 until his death on 30 April 1883.

Why are Manet's late paintings so small?

Illness. In his last years he could not stand at a large canvas for long, and the late work concentrates on small, close subjects — particularly still lifes of fruit and flowers.

People who knew this place

Illustrated portrait of Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet

French · Painter

Manet moved to an apartment at 39 rue de Saint-Petersbourg in 1878 and remained associated with the address until his death in 1883.

Within walking distance

The Place de Clichy in color — the monument, the corners, the traffic circling

Square · Clichy — Montmartre's edge

Place de Clichy

The crossroads where four arrondissements collide — and where Louis-Ferdinand Céline opens Journey to the End of the Night at a café table, with a recruitment parade passing and his narrator Bardamu jumping up to join the war.

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Bright color view of Wepler's red-awning facade beneath a blue Paris sky

Restaurant · Place de Clichy

Brasserie Wepler

The big brasserie on the place de Clichy that Henry Miller used as his base during the Clichy years later recreated in Quiet Days in Clichy — somewhere to write, to wait for people, and to watch the square. Currently closed for renovation.

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Color present-day view of 31 rue Ballu

Apartment · Saint-Georges (9th)

31 rue Ballu

The last address the record gives Paul Cézanne in Paris, taken on 21 October 1899. He left for Aix and spent the remaining seven years of his life painting the same mountain.

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Colour illustration of the modern streetscape at the approximate former site of Café Guerbois

Café · Batignolles (17th)

Café Guerbois

The Batignolles café where Édouard Manet held court through the 1860s and the painters who would become the Impressionists argued out what they were doing. Its address has since been renamed and renumbered, and nothing of it survives.

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References

References

The sources below include histories, archival materials, scholarly research, and official records that informed this page. They document 39 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg, the people connected to it, and its place in Paris.

  1. 1Édouard Manet

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    Nineteenth-Century Art (Michelle Facos)
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  2. 2Édouard Manet: Chronology

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    Manet.org
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  1. 3Édouard Manet (1832–1883) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  2. 4Émile Zola, by Édouard Manet

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    Musée d'Orsay
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