odalisque et servante

If you google Odalisque, you’ll get hundreds of paintings listed. Manet’s Olympia from 1863 was a great scandal for that time. The represented Odalisque was obviously a concubine who got a client announced by her servant. Manet said that he as simply as possible represents what he sees. “The painting has rough parts, so I’m told, but they were there. I’ve seen them. I did what I saw.”

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