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How a “Girl of our Time” Made Modern Art Possible

Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (“The Luncheon on the Grass”), 1863. (Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons)

“I really would like you here, my dear Baudelaire; they have been raining insults on me, I’ve never been led such a dance.”

Édouard Manet struggled with criticism for his entire career. The…