To Manet’s left, at the center of the composition, stands Bazille, apparently taking a break from his painting — he is still holding brushes and a palette — to listen to Manet, who is nine ...

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.