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Manet seats a nude woman at a picnic with two clothed, modern gentlemen, her direct stare confronting the viewer. The jarring mix of the everyday and the classical scandalized the public of 1863. It is a pivotal step toward modern painting.
The Luncheon on the Grass
- Date1863
- MovementRealism
- WhereMusée d'Orsay, Paris
- RegionFrance