Focus on this artwork and analyze the abstract.
La Nymphe surprise, or Surprised Nymph, is a painting by the French impressionist painter Édouard Manet, created in 1861. The model was Suzanne Leenhoff, a pianist whom he married two years later. The painting is a key work in Manet's production, marking the beginning of a new period in his artistic career and generally in the history of modernism in French painting.  It is in National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and it is considered one of the collection's highlights.  La Nymphe surprise remained in the artist's possession his entire life, and there is evidence that, apart from the emotional significance it represented for the artist,  Manet considered this painting as one of his most important works.
impressionist modernism National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires Suzanne Leenhoff French painting Nymph Buenos Aires Édouard Manet