Viewers were shocked by edouard manet's le déjeuner sur l'herbe (luncheon on the grass), because of the

People were surprised by the painting because the picture showed a photo of a naked woman in the middle of two young men having lunch on the grass and behind them, there was a naked woman bathing in the river.

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe) originally titled Le Bain (Le Bain) is a painting on canvas by Edouard Manet produced in 1862 and 1863. This painting depicts a naked and bather woman in a minimalist outfit. during a picnic with two fully clothed men in a rural area. Rejected by the Salon jury in 1863, Manet took the opportunity to exhibit this painting and two others at Salon des Refusés 1863, where the painting aroused public fame and controversy. This painting was done at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A smaller and earlier version can be seen at the Courtauld Gallery in London.

A naked woman eating lunch with a man in casual clothes is an insult to public respect, even if Émile Zola, a contemporary Manet, considers that this is unusual in the paintings found at the Louvre. Zola also felt that such reactions came from seeing art differently from "analytic" painters such as Manet, who used the subject of the painting as an excuse to paint.

Many things are still unknown about painting, such as when Manet actually started painting, how exactly he got the idea, and how and what preparatory work he did. Although Manet claimed that this work was previously worth 25,000 francs in 1871, in fact, he remained in his hands until 1878 when Jean-Baptiste Faure, opera singer, and collector, bought it with only 2,600 francs (French currency).

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Painting "lunch on the grass"

Édouard Manet

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