Two personal matters affected the life of Manet about this time. His father died, leaving him a considerable private fortune, thus making the artist financially independent of dealers and the ups and downs of public exhibition. In 1863 he married Mlle. Suzanne Leenhoff, a Dutch lady of great musical talent. From one point of view 1863 was disastrous, from another triumphant. Hitherto a man of promise, Manet now developed into a man of notoriety. The little “one-man show” at the gallery of M. Martinet, Boulevard des Italiens, presaged the coming storm. Manet exhibited the _Spanish Ballet_, _Music at the Tuileries_, _Lola de Valence_, and nearly the whole of his other work up to that date. Baudelaire was enthusiastic. Verses on _Lola de Valence_ are enshrined in “Fleurs de Mal.” Other critics were not so kind. M. Paul Mantz did not restrain his pen and referred to “a struggle between noisy, plastery tones, and black,” with a result “hard, sinister, and deadly,” the whole summed up as “a caricature of colour.” The Salon of 1863, which followed, has become famous not through what it accepted, but by reason of what it refused. In a contemporary chronicle the most notable pictures of the exhibition are _La Prière au Désert_ by Gustave Guillaumet, a _Sainte Famille_ by Bouguereau, _La Déroute_ by Gustave Boulanger, _La Bataille de Solférino_ by Meissonier, and the _Chasse au Renard_ by Courbet. With the exception of Courbet it is an academical list, although it is extraordinary how Courbet crept in. The list of rejected artists is amazing. Like Herod’s soldiers, the jury seems to have been chiefly occupied in stamping out youth. Bracquemond, Cals, Cazin, Fantin-Latour, Harpignies, Jongkind, J. P. Laurens, Legros, Manet, Pissarro, Vallon, Whistler, these and many others were thrown out. The work was too vigorously performed, and Napoleon III. authorised the opening of another gallery in the same building as the old Salon, known as the Salon des Refusés. The most striking canvas in this room was Manet’s first great work, the _Déjeuner sur l’Herbe_ (_Breakfast on the Grass_), sometimes called _Le Bain_.