Olympia

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Exhibited at the Salon of 1865, Olympia caused a stir. Evoking one of the characters in Alexandre Dumas' bestselling La Dame aux Camélias, the canvas depicts a young prostitute, on an unmade bed, waiting for her next client. Édouard Manet reinvents the theme of the elongated Venus here, giving it a contemporary and provocative character. Show more