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Still-lifes have a great importance in Manet's work. They account for a fifth of his oeuvre, quite apart from the many pictures within pictures, such as the dress and basket in the foreground of the Déjeuner or the bouquet in Olympia. All of Manet's most important works contain a magisterial still-life, from the desk and passe-partout in the Portrait of Émile Zola, the arms and carefully laid table of Luncheon in the Studio to the mugs in The Waitress or the oranges in the Bar in the Folies-Bergère.
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