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La Nymphe surprise is completed

1860 CE · South America · Culture

La Nymphe surprise is completed
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La Nymphe surprise, or Surprised Nymph, is a painting by the French painter Édouard Manet, created in 1861. The model was Suzanne Leenhoff, a pianist whom he married two years later. The painting is a key work of Manet's, marking the beginning of a new period in his artistic career and generally in the history of modernism in French painting.

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