nude in the sunlight auguste renoirNude in the Sunlight (also known under the title Study. Torso, Sunlight Effect) was shown at the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876, where it provoked a genuine critical scandal. The journalist Albert Wolff, in Le Figaro, wrote a now famous critique that compared the violet and green patches scattered across the young woman's body to marks of cadaverous decomposition or putrefaction. This violent incomprehension testifies to the revolutionary