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Manet
Édouard Manet, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe), 1863
The painting depicts the juxtaposition of a female nude and a scantily dressed female bather on a picnic with two fully dressed men in a rural setting. Rejected by the Salon jury of 1863, Manet seized the opportunity to exhibit this and two other paintings, in the 1863 Salon des Refusés, where the painting sparked public notoriety and controversy.
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"Manet, Edouard - Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (The Picnic) (1)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Manet,_Edouard_-_Le_Dejeuner_sur_l'Herbe_(The_Picnic)_(1).jpg
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