Édouard Manet
Manet is buried in the family tomb at Passy Cemetery, which also holds his brother Eugene Manet and Eugene's wife, the painter Berthe Morisot.
Passy Cemetery
Still standing
Walk straight in
Still the same
The small, wealthy cemetery beside the Trocadéro where Édouard Manet is buried in the family tomb — together with his brother Eugène and Eugène's wife, the painter Berthe Morisot.
- 2 rue du Commandant-Schloesing, 75016 Paris
- Opened in 1820
The place, briefly
Passy is one of the smallest and most exclusive of the Paris cemeteries: walled, raised above the street, and set immediately beside the place du Trocadéro with the Eiffel Tower directly across the river. It served the wealthy sixteenth arrondissement and its residents reflect that.
The tomb that matters here holds three painters' worth of history in one family. Édouard Manet was buried in the family grave after his death in 1883. His younger brother Eugène Manet lies there too — and so does Eugène's wife, Berthe Morisot, who died in 1895.
The relationship is worth spelling out, because it is often garbled. Morisot met Édouard Manet in 1868 while she was copying at the Louvre; she modelled for several of his most striking paintings; and in 1874 she married his brother. She was a founding member of the independent exhibitions that year and one of the very few women in the group, and she was a serious painter throughout — not, as she is still sometimes described, an appendage to the Manet family. She is buried with them all the same.
The cemetery is open to the public and free. It is small enough to walk in a quarter of an hour.
Key facts
- 2 rue du Commandant-Schloesing, 16th arrondissement
- 1820
- Buried here after his death in 1883
- Buried in the same family tomb, with her husband Eugène Manet
- Beside the place du Trocadéro, facing the Eiffel Tower
- Free, during cemetery opening hours
Timeline
The cemetery opens.
Édouard Manet is buried in the family tomb.
Berthe Morisot is buried with her husband Eugène Manet.
On the map
Questions before you go
Where is Édouard Manet buried?
In the family tomb at Passy Cemetery, 2 rue du Commandant-Schloesing in the 16th arrondissement.
Are Manet and Morisot buried together?
Yes. Berthe Morisot married Édouard Manet's brother Eugène in 1874, and she is buried in the same family tomb as both of them.
Can you visit Passy Cemetery?
Yes — it is open to the public during cemetery hours and free to enter. It is small and takes about fifteen minutes to walk.
People buried here
Berthe Morisot
Morisot is buried in the Manet family tomb at Passy Cemetery with her husband Eugene Manet and her brother-in-law Edouard Manet.
Within walking distance
16 rue Benjamin-Franklin
The Morisot family house in Passy where a studio was built in the garden for Berthe and her sister Edma — an unusually serious commitment to two daughters' painting for a bourgeois family of the 1860s.
Visit the place12 rue Benjamin-Franklin
One of the Morisot family's Passy addresses during the years when Berthe and Edma Morisot were training as painters, a few doors from the house where their garden studio was built.
Visit the place
57 rue Cortambert
The wooden Swiss-style chalet in Passy, since demolished, where Colette lived through her second marriage and the birth of her daughter.
Visit the placeChamp-de-Mars
The great park below the Eiffel Tower, and the site of the 1889 Exposition Universelle — where Claude Debussy heard Javanese gamelan for the first time and never entirely got over it.
Visit the placeThe Friday Letter
Paris, one address at a time.
The cafés, studios, and walk-up flats where the work was made — one story from the map in every letter.