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 ...