Woman fastening her garter by Manet

Monday with Edouard Manet!

Manet rarely hinted at eroticism in work. Typically, and perhaps this was common for the male painter of the day, he would simply paint a woman nude (for example, "Olympia" and "Luncheon on the grass") or bare-chested ("The blonde with bare breasts," "Brunette with bare breasts"). Controversy swirled around Manet not because of nudity per se but the implications that his nudes or partially clothed women seemed to manifest in their pose, their stare at the viewer, or their simple matter-of-factness in going about their everyday activities.

Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1878