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CLAUDE MONET - LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS
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Monet,
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1865 |
- Luncheon on the Grass (French:
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe) is an 1865–1866 oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet, produced in response to the 1863 work of the same title by Édouard Manet.
- It remains unfinished, but two large fragments (central
and left panels) are now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, while
a smaller 1866 version is now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
- Monet originally wanted to submit the painting to the Salon of 1866, but he underestimated how long it would take him to transfer his sketches to a life-size canvas, so it remained unfinished by the time of the exhibition.
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The painting depicts twelve people clothed in the Parisian fashion of the time. They are having a picnic near a forest glade. The people are gathered around a white picnic blanket, surrounded by fruits, cake and wine. The mood in this natural space is primarily created by the play of light and shadow, caused by the deciduous tree above them.
(Wikipedia)
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