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10 Scandalous Artworks You Should Know

1. Portrait de Madeleine (a Black Woman), Marie-Guillemine Benoist,1800

(Louvre)

2. L’origine du Monde (Vagina), Gustave Corbet (Orsay)

3. Olympia (symbols of sexual desire),1863, Edouard Manet (Orsay)

4. Grande Odalisque (shift from Neoclassic to Exotic Romantism) by Ingres,

1814, Orentalist (Louvre - Denon Wing, 1st Floor, Room 702)

5. Gabrielle d’Estrées and Her Sister (Painting symbolizing her pregnancy

with the illegitimate child of King Henry IV), Unknown, 1594 (Louvre -

Richelieu Wing)

6. Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe (“Not Diane nor Vénus”, unconventional

representation of nude), 1863, Édouard Manet (Orsay)

7. Fountain (The Urinal), 1917 Marcel Duchamp (Several Replicas,

Pompidou)

8. Small Dancer Aged 14 (denouncing the scandal of Sugar Daddy), 1881,

Edgar Degas (Orsay)

9. Thérèse rêvant (young girl in suggestive pose), 1938, Balthus,

10.Egon Schiele, the « Rimbaud » of Austrian painting dead at 28

(extremely explicit and « indecent»)