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Edouard Manet. Déjeuner sur l'Herbe, 1863. 208x264cm, (84x 106in). Musée d'Orsay, Paris. |
Victorine levelled at her that same look that had beguiled Edouard, the look that so enraged the public, a look that seemed like a natural one for Victorine, a look not only tinged with insolence, but indifference.
"I collaborated with him."
"Collaborated! Who stood behind him at the scandal of Déjeuner when they called him a renegade and barbarian? Where were you when he was pelted with a hail of insults while the Olympia was at the Salon?"
"I'd done what he needed. That was all I owed him."