Manet said of him that he was only an eye ... He added two figures to the original (and a dog), although he made four of the five figures in the foreground naked. Vega also wanted to be clear ...

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.