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Olympia
1863
oil on canvas 130x190cm
Musee d'Orsay
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According to Bazire, during the last days of the Salon of 1865 Olympia had to be repositioned to a height where it would escape notice and attack.

Paul de Saint Victor seemed to sum up the reactions of the visitors: 'The mob crowds around Manet's rotting Olympia as if they were at the morgue. Art which has sunk so low is not worthy even of censure.'





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