Olympia is an 1863 oil painting by the French artist Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman lying on a bed and attended by a black maid, with the model for Olympia identified as Victorine Meurent. First shown at the 1865 Paris Salon, its confrontational gaze and visual details identifying the reclining woman as a prostitute caused public shock and controversy. The French government purchased the painting in 1890 after a subscription organized by Claude Monet, and it now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
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Olympia is an 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid.
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The painting is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
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Olympia is an 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid. The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subscription organized by Claude Monet.
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Olympia is an 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid. The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subscription organized
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Olympia is an 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid.
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