Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe. Manet's Women by Ben Pollitt on Prezi. Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe. Manet: Olympia. Édouard Manet, Olympia, oil on canvas, 1863 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker Édouard Manet brought to Realism his curiosity about social mores. However, he was not interested in mirroring polite parlor conversations and middle class promenades in theBois de Boulogne (Paris’ Central Park). Rather, Manet invented subjects that set the Parisians’ teeth. In 1865, Manet submitted his risqué painting of a courtesan greeting her client (in this case, you), Olympia, of 1863, to the French Salon. Somehow they were afraid another rejection would seem like a personal attack on Manet himself. Manet was a Realist, but sometimes his “real” situations shocked and rocked the Parisian art world to its foundations.
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