Olympia Framing options:Rolled canvas The canvas represents the shores

The canvas represents the shores of Lake Attersee in Upper Austria (Litzlberg is a village and one of the islands in the lake)

a group of sixteen paper fans

the only male presence

and overall visual rhythm of the surface

By its technique

Olympia Framing options:Rolled canvas The canvas represents the shoresExhibited at the Salon of 1865, Olympia caused a stir. Evoking one of the characters in Alexandre Dumas' bestselling La Dame aux Camlias, the canvas depicts a young prostitute, on an unmade bed, waiting for her next client. douard Manet reinvents the theme of the elongated Venus here, giving it a contemporary and provocative character.