The Cleveland Museum of Art is about to hand center stage to one of Impressionism’s most intriguing pairs. Manet & Morisot opens Sunday, March 29, and runs through July 5, 2026, bringing together works by Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot to trace a roughly 15-year creative friendship. The exhibition focuses on how the two artists borrowed motifs and approaches from each other, assembling rare loans alongside pieces from the museum’s own collection in a compact installation built for close looking rather than blockbuster sprawl.
Show details and dates
Manet & Morisot will be on view March 29 through July 5, 2026, in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Gallery. The show features 36 paintings, along with drawings and prints, and requires timed-entry tickets for access. Docent-led tours and related public programs are set throughout the exhibition’s run. According to the Cleveland Museum of Art, the presentation was organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in collaboration with CMA and pulls together loans from U.S. and European collections.
San Francisco run and early reviews
The exhibition premiered at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco last fall, where critics responded enthusiastically to the pairing and its reframing of Morisot as an artistic equal to Manet. The New York Times ran a prominent review, and The Washington Post offered a favorable write-up, with both outlets focusing on the careful curatorial framing. Reviewers praised the catalogue and the way the galleries invite visitors to compare the two painters’ strategies side by side.
What Cleveland brings to the conversation
For its stop in Ohio, Cleveland will place several of its own 19th-century holdings in dialogue with high-profile loans, sharpening the contrast between Manet’s direct gaze and Morisot’s domestic vantage points. The museum cites works such as Morisot’s “Mademoiselle Louise Riesener in a Hat” and Manet’s “Berthe Morisot with a Muff” from its collection as anchors for the local presentation. Per the Cleveland Museum of Art, these pairings are meant to make clear how the two artists shaped each other’s late practice.
Tickets and visitor information
Timed tickets are required for entry to the special exhibition, and local coverage has already laid out the ticket breakdown. Admission is $17 for adults, $15 for visitors age 65 and older, and $8 for ages 6 through 17 and college students, with free admission for children 5 and younger. For reservations and questions, visitors can consult the exhibition listing or contact the museum’s ticket center at 216-421-7350, per the Morning Journal.
Beyond the galleries
The exhibition is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Yale University Press. For Cleveland visitors, it is a rare chance to see a national touring show reconfigured for a regional museum and to compare Manet and Morisot face to face on home turf. The catalogue lays out the correspondence, technical study, and essays that underpin the curatorial argument, according to Yale University Press.
