When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in ... they do not want to be confronted with one in a painting gallery. A real woman, flaws and all, with an independent spirit, stares out from ...
Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was ...
an alienated woman at work. In the Manet painting's case, the barmaid, based on a real person named Suzon, is so striking because she seems totally nonplussed, despite the fact that she is in a ...