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Le Ministère de la Marine (1865-1866) is a print by French etcher Charles Méryon depicting the marine ministry "attacked" by a charging flock of fantastic creatures.

Olympia by Édouard Manet, painted in 1863, it stirred an uproar when it was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon. Today, it is considered as the start of modern art.

The Virgin of the Nile (1865) by Federico Faruffini

History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1865

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Events

• Paris Salon of 1865 opens in May

Art

• • Manet's Olympia did not depict a goddess or an odalisque, but a high-class prostitute waiting for a client. The classic work that most closely resembles Manet's in character is Francisco Goya's La Maja Desnuda (c. 1800).
• Le Ministère de la Marine by Charles Meryon
• Proudhon and his children by Gustave Courbet
• Rosine à sa toilette by Antoine Wiertz

Literature

• Alice in Wonderland (1865) - Lewis Carroll - From the Earth to the Moon (1865) - Jules Verne
• Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Births

• Arthur Symons

Deaths

• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• Antoine Wiertz