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.

Liebermann’s work is very close in style to Édouard Manet in its thick impasto and tonal palette ... Petersburg, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. He died on ...