Picture an elegant park of 11 hectares. That’s the setting for the Domaine du Manet. It’s located on the edge of the Chevreuse Valley Regional Natural Park.
This domain welcomes you just 30 minutes from Paris. The Domaine du Manet offers a modern hotel. It features 72 well-equipped rooms. You can also enjoy its restaurant and café. The café offers a brasserie-style menu.
Each modern room and suite includes an LCD television. Free Wi-Fi is available. Rooms have an electric kettle. Each offers views of the park. Private bathrooms include showers.
A continental breakfast is served each morning. It is offered in the hotel’s dining room. The on-site restaurant prepares traditional French cuisine. Guests can enjoy a drink on the shaded terrace.
The Domaine du Manet is close to several towns. These are Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Guyancourt, and Montigny-le-Bretonneux. The Le National golf club is just 4.5 km away. The Château de Versailles is 11 km from here.
But the Domaine du Manet is also linked to Édouard Manet. Manet was a French painter. He was born in Paris in 1832. Manet defied traditional techniques. He chose subjects from his own time.
Manet’s father wanted him to study law. But Édouard wanted to be a painter. He failed the naval college entrance exam. His parents finally let him become a painter.
In 1850, Manet joined Thomas Couture’s studio. He learned drawing and pictorial technique. Manet traveled to improve his skills. He visited the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. At the Louvre, he copied paintings.
Manet’s first submission was rejected. It was for the Salon de Paris exhibition in 1859. The Salon was the official exhibition of the French Academy of Fine Arts.
Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff in 1863. She had been his piano teacher. They kept their relationship secret from his father. Leenhoff appeared in some of Manet’s paintings.
Manet became friends with Impressionists in 1868. These included Claude Monet and Edgar Degas. Berthe Morisot persuaded him to try plein air painting. She later married Manet’s brother Eugene.
Manet’s health declined in his forties. He still put on a one-man exhibition in 1880. In 1882, he showed “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” at the Salon de Paris. It was his last great work.
Gangrene developed in Manet’s leg. It required amputation. He died in Paris on April 30, 1883. Édouard Manet is buried in the Passy Cemetery in Paris.
Manet paintings are displayed worldwide. “The Luncheon on the Grass” is at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. This controversial painting was rejected by the Salon de Paris in 1863.
Though Manet resisted the Impressionists, he influenced them. Claude Monet said Manet initially disliked him. This was because people confused their names. Manet painted Monet’s family in 1874.
Step back in time as you explore the Château du Manet. Imagine the days of artistic brilliance. Picture the elegant gatherings. Feel the echoes of a revolutionary artist. The Domaine du Manet connects history with modern comfort.