Painting and Sculpture

La Nymphe surprise

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. It is in National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and is considered one of the collection's highlights. La Nymphe surprise remained in the artist's possession his entire life, and there is evidence that, apart from the emotional significance it had for him, Manet considered this painting one of his most important.

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• ▸Fortuneteller Svetlana
• ▸Cold seep
• ▸Charles Knight (artist)

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