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Olympia, 1863, by Édouard Manet

Musée d'Orsay · 7e arrondissement

Édouard Manet, Olympia

Now showingPermanent collection·€16

Manet's 1863 reclining nude, whose frank gaze and unmistakably modern subject caused outrage at the 1865 Salon and overturned the academic tradition of the idealised nude.

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