Best Photos of the Day

Édouard Manet's "Olympia," 1863-65, on display in "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. Two titans of modern art face off in New York as the Met explores their enigmatic relationship. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

Édouard Manet's "Woman With a Fan (Jeanne Duval)," 1862, on display in "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. Duval, a young actress, stares directly at the viewer and wears a billowing white dress. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

Self-portraits by Édouard Manet, left, and Edgar Degas on display at the entrance to "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. The self-portraits suggest that Manet, paintbrush posed, was the extrovert, ready for a talk and a drink — by contrast, Degas sulks and pouts and keeps his distance. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

Edgar Degas' "A Cotton Office in New Orleans," 1873, on display in "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. Two titans of modern art face off in New York as the Met explores their enigmatic relationship. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

Edgar Degas' "Family Portrait (The Bellelli Family)," circa 1858-1869, on display in "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. Degas' aunt Laura, in mourning for her father, huddles with two young daughters, while her husband, Gennaro, seems removed from the group. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

Édouard Manet's "The Dead Toreador," probably 1864, on display in "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. Heeding criticism about its original spatial relationships and scale, he cut the original canvas in two and displayed this portion in 1867. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

Edgar Degas' "In a Café (The Absinthe Drinker)," from 1875–76, on display in "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. Two titans of modern art face off in New York as the Met explores their enigmatic relationship. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

Édouard Manet's "The Execution of Maximilian," 1867–68, on display in "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. It was cut up into pieces after Manet's death, but the fragments were saved by Degas and later partly restored. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

Édouard Manet's "The Dead Christ With Angels," 1864–68, on display in "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. Critics denounced its realism and Christ's wound on the wrong side but Degas admired the work for its "real drawing." (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

From the left, Édouard Manet's "The Battle of the USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama," 1864, and "The ‘Kearsarge' at Boulogne," 1864, on display in "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. Two titans of modern art face off in New York as the Met explores their enigmatic relationship. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).