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.
Paule Gobillard, Julie Mante se repose de Villejust (détail) vers 1900, collection particulière - Jean-Yves Lacôte Berthe Morisot, Portrait de Julie Manet « au chapeau liberty », 1895 ...