Victorine Meurent, the model for Olympia, sits with a book and a sleeping puppy by the iron railings above the tracks of the Gare Saint-Lazare, while a girl in white turns her back to watch the trains. Only a cloud of steam shows the railway itself. Visitors to the 1874 Salon found the subject baffling and the handling sketchy.
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A bunch of grapes rests on the parapet at right, and behind the steam stands the building on the rue de Saint-Pétersbourg where Manet had his studio.
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