In this image, I am standing beside another scandalous painting of Edouard Manet.
His "Olympia" is not scandalous because she is nude, but instead because she is not a nude goddess,
but rather a common "woman of the night" waiting for a paramour who has sent flowers being shown her by the maid.

The picture was considered by the public and the Academic artistic community as ugly and immoral because the common woman has no shading on her body,
which is comparatively "flat" with little delineation of forms or half-tones.
Another big problem is that the composition is almost directly drawn from Titian's highly revered painting "Venus of Urbino" in the Uffizi in Florence.
Manet's painting is basically a "black and white" study with the woman's nudity emphasized by the ribbon around her neck and her slippers.
Her "come hither"eye-contact with the viewer is also unprecedented. This painting was shown at the Salon of 1865, where it created quite a sensation.