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Manet 1
LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS, BY EDOUARD MANET
The painting I have chosen is Luncheon on the grass, by Édouard Manet. It was painted in 1863. At the beginning this painting received the name The Bath, but it was changed four years later. It was rejected by the Salon Jury, so it was shown for the first time in the Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected, created by Napoleon III due to the indignation of all those who admired Manet) the same year it was painted. At the moment it is exhibited in the Museum of Orsay in Paris. It is an oil painting on canvas and its dimensions are 208 cm x 264.5 cm. This painting was considered to be in poor taste due to the naked woman who is seating with dressed men and people didn’t like the female nude, because she wasn’t a mythological figure, she was only a normal woman. It received critics due to the modernity of the style.

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The painting represents a luncheon in the forest. In the foreground of the painting we can see two men and a woman having lunch. The two men are dressed elegantly. The man on the right is Gustave, Manet’s brother. He is wearing a black beret, a white shirt with an orange tie, a black jacket, grey trousers and black shoes and he is holding a stick in his left hand. The other man is the sculptor Ferdinand Leenhoff, Manet’s future brother-in-law. He is wearing a white shirt with a black tie, a black jacket and grey trousers. The naked woman is Victorine Meurent, a French painter and model. She became famous because she was Édouard Manet’s favourite model, but she also painted some paintings that were exposed in the Paris Salon. This naked woman is more visible than the rest and she is looking directly to the viewer. The two men are talking and they aren’t paying attention to the woman. In the foreground, to the left, we see the woman’s clothes and the food of the breakfast. In the background there is another woman slightly dressed with a

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