That still doesn’t make Manet’s style Art Nouveau. Olympia was painted in 1863–several decades before anything like an “Art Nouveau” movement was formed. Moreover, I would disagree with Wood regarding the eroticism of Manet’s painting. The dreamy eroticism in Art Nouveau paintings is worlds apart from the blunt realism of Manet’s work–which, really, isn’t all that erotic when you compare it to certain other paintings from the nineteenth century. Ingres’ paintings of women, for instance, are far more sensual than anything Manet did, and they anticipate the Art Nouveau spirit much more strongly than Manet’s work did.
But I wouldn’t call Ingres “Art Nouveau” either.
