discarded beside her. The riverbank background and the presence of another woman echo Gourbet's notorious Young Women of the Banks of the Seine, Summer Figure 8 an Gustave Courbet (French, [FIGURE 8], which was exhibited at the Salon in 1857 d again in Gourbet's one- 1819-1877). Young man exhibition in 1867. However, the notion of updating the subject of Venus by Women of the Banks of the Seine, Summer, adapting poses from past art is closer to Manet's Olympia (Paris, Musee d'Orsay), 1856-57. Oil on canvas, with its clear echoes of Titian's Venus of Urhino (Florence, Uffizi). 174 X 206 cm (68% X SlVs in.). Paris, Musee Renoir's other Salon exhibit in 1870, Woman of Algiers, now known as du Petit Palais, no. 377. © Phototeque des Odalisque [FIGURE 9], invites a different range of comparisons—with recent Musees de la Ville de Orientalist painting. The sensual pose is reminiscent of pictures by Jean- Paris. 12