The French Mint recently issued the 2008 Manet 1/4 euro silver coin, the second coin in the French Painters series. This series started in 2007 with the Degas coin and will end in 2015. A total of nine rectangular silver coins will feature French painters throughout five important artistic movements, from classicism to modernism.
The Impressionist movement is represented on the 2007 coin featuring Edgar Degas and one of his famous paintings, L'étoile, while the second coin features Edouard Manet and Olympia, an oil on canvas painting in the Realist style. Both paintings are currently housed at the Musée d'Orsay, the Impressionist museum in Paris.
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