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Key facts
- Artist
- Édouard Manet
- Year
- 1863–1865
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 130.5 cm × 190 cm (51.4 in × 74.8 in)
- Location
- Musée d'Orsay , Paris
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Edouard Manet - Olympia - Google Art Project 3.jpg
- Height
- 130.5
- Width
- 191
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- catalog code
- 61
- inception
- 1863-01-01
- Commons category
- Olympia (Édouard Manet)
- inventory number
- RF 644
- inscription
- ED.MANET 1863
- title
- Olympia
- IIIF manifest URL
- iiif.musee-orsay.fr/Manifester/IIIF/3/objects!712/manifest.json
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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. The painting is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
The figure of Olympia was modeled by 19 year-old Victorine Meurent, and that of her servant by Laure. Olympia's confrontational gaze caused shock and controversy when the painting was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon, especially because a number of details in the picture identified her as a prostitute.