NEW YORK — The 1865 Paris Salon was the site of grand scandale. “Olympia,” Édouard Manet’s painting of a nude courtesan lolling on a divan, forthrightly blasé alongside her Black maid ...

She’s the one picnicking in the nude in Manet’s masterpiece of the same year, “Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe.” Three years later, in 1865, she appears in “Olympia,” ...

The most famous painting in the Musée d’Orsay — and probably the second-most famous painting in Paris after the “Mona Lisa” — is Édouard Manet’s “Olympia.” What does this 1863 ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers ...

‘I wanted to reclaim the art of the nude’: Renee Saliba on Manet’s ‘outrageous’ painting Olympia No one entity can control what a woman is. And just as Manet broke through a mould set ...

Manet Cut This Painting in Half 150 Years Ago. Now, the Two Sides Are Back Together for a Rare Reunion Smithsonian Magazine ...

ONE CAN IMAGINE the outrage provoked by “Olympia,” by Edouard Manet (1832-1883), when the painting appeared at the Paris Salon, in 1865. Even today, his frankly sexual nude is audacious. The ...

Olympia – Edouard Manet. 1863. Oil on canvas. 130.5×190 cm Created in 1863, the Olympia painting immediately attracted attention.