Édouard Manet
(1832- 1883)
 

Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) or Olympia, "premiering" in 1863 and '65, respectively, caused great controversy with both critics and the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon were praised by progressive artists as the breakthrough acts to the new style, Impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Manet

La Partie de Croquet (The Croquet Game)
1873
Oil on canvas
72 x 106 cm
Städel Museum, Frankfurt
https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/de/werk/die-krocketpartie

 

The Croquet Game is an 1873 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. It shows a group of people playing croquet, a very fashionable game at that time. The group comprises the painter Alfred Stevens, artists' models Victorine Meurent and Alice Lecouvé and, in the background, Manet's friend Paul Roudier.
In style this painting represented Manet's closest approach to impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Croquet_Game