Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
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Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is a groundbreaking 1863 painting by Édouard Manet that scandalized contemporary audiences with its depiction of a nude woman picnicking with clothed men and is now seen as a key precursor to modern art.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting → |
| artForm |
easel painting
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| artHistoricalContext |
challenge to academic conventions
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transition from academic art to modernism → |
| authorOfCriticalReception |
Émile Zola
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| collection |
Musée d'Orsay collection
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| countryOfOrigin |
France
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| creator |
Édouard Manet
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| depicts |
basket of fruit
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discarded clothing → nude woman → picnic scene → rural landscape → still life with food → two clothed men → woman bathing in background → |
| exhibitedAt |
Salon des Refusés
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| exhibitionDate |
1863 Salon des Refusés
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| genre |
history of modern art
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| hasInfluenced |
Claude Monet
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Paul Cézanne → |
| hasPart |
background bather
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foreground group of three figures → still life arrangement → |
| historicalSignificance |
influenced Impressionist painters
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key work in the emergence of modern painting → |
| inception |
1863
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| inspiredBy |
Pastoral Concert (attributed to Titian or Giorgione)
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The Judgment of Paris theme → |
| locatedIn |
Paris
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| location |
Musée d'Orsay
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| mainSubject |
female nude
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male bourgeois figures → |
| materialUsed |
oil paint
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| movement |
Realism
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proto-Impressionism → |
| notableFor |
bold contrasts of light and dark
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flattened perspective → precursor to modern art → radical treatment of the nude → scandalizing contemporary audiences → |
| originalLanguageTitle |
French
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| placeOfFirstExhibition |
Paris
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| significantEvent |
rejected by Paris Salon 1863
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| surface |
canvas
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| title |
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
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| translatedTitle |
The Luncheon on the Grass
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Referenced by (5)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Édouard Manet
("Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe")
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Édouard Manet ("The Luncheon on the Grass") → |
notableWork |
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Musée d'Orsay
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notableWorkHeld |
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Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
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title |
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Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
("The Luncheon on the Grass")
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translatedTitle |