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Olympia (large plate)

1867

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The story

Manet etched Olympia to reproduce his own painting, which critics and the public jeered in 1865. He had shown his model Victorine Meurent as a modern courtesan instead of an idealized nude, forcing attention onto the era's contradictory attitudes toward prostitution.

Source, Cleveland Museum of Art

Object details

Title: Olympia (large plate)
Artist: Édouard Manet
Date: 1867
Culture: French
Medium: Etching
Object type: Prints
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Credit line: Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true).
Object number: EFA.0553
Original image: 3000 × 2173 px
Source record: View on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Édouard Manet. Olympia (large plate). 1867. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0553/