Le voyage dans la lune (operetta) but due to the need to raise the necessary money he did not take up the project. Eventually Albert Vizentini, the new directeur of the Gaîté, took up the idea, and Offenbach's contribution was limited to that of composer. Albert Vanloo and Eugène Leterrier, in association with Arnold Mortier (columnist at Figaro), wrote the libretto. They were hoping for a repeat of the success of the novels of Jules Verne (another, the novel "Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours", had been adapted for the stage at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin by Verne himself in 1874) and the
L'Origine du monde painted a work named "1879 (From the Lost Paintings Series)" (2011) in which a veiled Ottoman noblewoman stands before the framed canvas of "L'Origine du monde". On 29 May 2014, a Luxembourg performance artist, Deborah De Robertis, sat on the floor in front of the painting and mimicked the view of the subject. This resulted in security guards closing the room and her arrest. US artist Candice Lin recreated "L’Origine du monde" in a video of her an audiovisual sculpture "Hunter Moon / Inside Out" (2015). In it, "Courbet’s L’Origine du monde with eyes" "looks back at the onlookers." From