Olympia (Manet)
Manet reworked Giorgione's The Sleeping Venus (c. 1510) and Titian's Venus of Urbino (c. 1538) in creating Olympia.  Olympia may also take inspiration from Francisco Goya's La maja desnuda (c. 1800). This is uncertain however. Victorine Meurent was Manet's model for Olympia. She posed as a bullfighter for him and also for the Dejeuner sur l'Herbe of 1862-63. Manet painted Olympia in the autumn of 1863.  The work was first seen by the public at the 1865 Salon in Paris.  Manet delayed showing the painting because he feared it might produce some negative reactions.