Perhaps his most famous painting is The Luncheon on the Grass. Here, Manet drew inspiration from Masters of the Past. He was particularly inspired by The Judgement of Paris by Marcantonio Raimondo ...

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.