Manet was fascinated and, perhaps sensing his Goya moment, made at least four attempts to paint it (the first is pictured below). For obvious reasons, depicting the gross diplomatic failure of ...

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.