Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)
 

Lola Melea, nicknamed Lola de Valence (Lola from Valencia), was the star of Mariano Camprubi's Spanish ballet troupe. From 12 August to 2 November 1862, the troupe performed at the Hippodrome in Paris, much to the delight of Manet and his friends Baudelaire and Zacharie Astruc. Manet persuaded the troupe to pose for him in the studio of Alfred Stevens, who had a large room at his disposal. This led to a small series of paintings and etchings, including The Spanish Ballet and Lola de Valence.
Originally, the dancer was depicted against a neutral background. Not long after an exhibition in 1867, Manet painted over the background, also enlarging the canvas. Now, the back of the set and a small part of a theatre with an audience can be seen. Because the performances in the hippodrome took place outdoors, this cannot represent the actual situation in 1862.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_de_Valence

Lola de Valence
1862 (30 years old)
Oil on canvas
123 x 92 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/lola-de-valence-710

Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)

Monet was 23 years old and, after attending Gleyre's classes in Paris and seeking inspiration in the footsteps of the Barbizon School painters, returned to Normandy in May 1864, where his family was staying. He thought he could find lodging and even invited Bazille to accompany him. But the trip actually ended in Honfleur. Bazille was due to return to Paris during the summer, and Monet extended his stay until autumn. At the Saint-Siméon farm, he met up with Jongkind and Boudin and fell into debt with the owner, Mère Toutain, who agreed to be paid according to the sales of her boarders. Monet therefore set to work, drawing inspiration from various locations in the town and its surroundings. But short of resources, he finally asked Bazille in November to help finance his return to Paris

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rue_de_la_Bavolle_à_Honfleur

La Rue de la Bavolle à Honfleur
1864 (23 years old)
Oil on canvas
56 × 61 cm
MFA, Boston, US
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/33309

Monet made a second version, on another time of day. That painting is now in the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

https://www.kuma.art/en/exponat/la-rue-de-la-bavolle-honfleur

Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)
 

Music in the Tuileries is an 1862 oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet. It is owned by the National Gallery, London and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin as part of the shared Lane Bequest. 
The work is an early example of Manet's painterly style, inspired by Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez, and it is a harbinger of his lifelong interest in the subject of leisure. The painting influenced Manet's contemporaries – such as Monet, Renoir and Bazille – to paint similar large groups of people. 
The painting depicts the gatherings of Parisians at weekly concerts in the Tuileries gardens near the Louvre, although no musicians are depicted. While the picture was regarded as unfinished by some, the suggested atmosphere imparts a sense of what the Tuileries gardens were like at the time; one may imagine the music and conversation.

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

Music in the Tuileries
1862 (30 years old)
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 118.1 cm
National Gallery, London

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/edouard-manet-music-in-the-tuileries-gardens 

 Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)

Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted him to pursue a career in business. He was very close to his mother, but she died in January 1857 when he was sixteen years old, and he was sent to live with his childless, widowed but wealthy aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.

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

Still Life with Bottle, Carafe, Bread, and Wine 
1862 (22 years old)
Oil on canvas
39.69 × 59.85 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/164942-still-life-bottle-carafe-bread-and-wine

 Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)

The Spanish Singer is an 1860 oil painting composed in Manet's studio, it employed a model and props which were later used for at least one other painting. This work, both realistic and exotic in its depiction of its subject, exhibits the influence of Spanish art, especially that of Diego Velázquez, on Manet's style. Manet, due to this painting, was accepted for the first time at the Salon of Paris in 1861, where he also exhibited a portrait of his parents.
The Spanish Singer received positive criticism at the time and won a decent mention. It was appreciated by French writer Charles Baudelaire, and by French journalist and literary critic Theophile Gautier, who praised the painting for its "very true color" and "vigorous brush". Manet consequently became the leader of the avant-garde movement and inspired a group of young artists, including Henri Fantin-Latour and Carolus-Duran, who decided to visit Manet's studio.

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

The Spanish Singer
1860 (28 years old)
Oil on canvas
147.35 × 114.3 cm
The MET,  N.Y.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436944

 Claude Monet 
(1840 - 1926)

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, which was first exhibited in the so-called "exhibition of rejects" of 1874–an exhibition initiated by Monet and like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon. 

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

View from Rouelles
1858 (18 years old)
Oil on canvas
46 x 65 cm
Private collection

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.

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

The Absinthe Drinker
1859 (27 years old)
Oil on canvas
180 x 105 cm
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

https://glyptoteket.com/whats-on/collections/french-art-1800