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.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf oil painting
painting
artForm easel painting
artHistoricalContext challenge to academic conventions
transition from academic art to modernism
authorOfCriticalReception Émile Zola
collection Musée d'Orsay collection
countryOfOrigin France
creator Édouard Manet
depicts basket of fruit
discarded clothing
nude woman
picnic scene
rural landscape
still life with food
two clothed men
woman bathing in background
exhibitedAt Salon des Refusés
exhibitionDate 1863 Salon des Refusés
genre history of modern art
hasInfluenced Claude Monet
Paul Cézanne
hasPart background bather
foreground group of three figures
still life arrangement
historicalSignificance influenced Impressionist painters
key work in the emergence of modern painting
inception 1863
inspiredBy Pastoral Concert (attributed to Titian or Giorgione)
The Judgment of Paris theme
locatedIn Paris
location Musée d'Orsay
mainSubject female nude
male bourgeois figures
materialUsed oil paint
movement Realism
proto-Impressionism
notableFor bold contrasts of light and dark
flattened perspective
precursor to modern art
radical treatment of the nude
scandalizing contemporary audiences
originalLanguageTitle French
placeOfFirstExhibition Paris
significantEvent rejected by Paris Salon 1863
surface canvas
title Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
translatedTitle The Luncheon on the Grass

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Édouard Manet ("Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe")
Édouard Manet ("The Luncheon on the Grass")
notableWork
Musée d'Orsay
notableWorkHeld
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
title
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe ("The Luncheon on the Grass")
translatedTitle

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