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The story behind Manet's favourite muse, Victorine Meurent caught our eye. Victorine is the famous nude in Dejeuner sur L’Herbe and Olympia, the demure Young Lady in 1866, The Street Singer, The Gare St. Lazare, even the boy in The Fifer .
Often depicted as a courtesan or a demi-mondaine, viewers had the misconception that Victorine was a girl of the streets when in fact she came from a family of hardworking craftspeople and aspired to an art career at an early age.
Victorine regularly exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon. Victorine's paintings were selected for inclusion at the Salon's juried exhibition in 1876, when Manet's work was not.