Despite the initial outcry, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe has gone on to inspire countless generations of artists, and has become an artistic icon of our times.

1. … a luncheon on the grass

2. Variations on Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass

4. a naked woman be sitting with two clothed men in the middle of the forest ...
It disgraced the reserved Parisian audiences of the 1863 Salon des Refuses, spurred on by a sensational outcry in the press,
outraged to see a shockingly unapologetic female nude staring out at the audience so audaciously and mixing with fully
clothed civilized gentlemen.
here was a real woman, with folds of flab and an unwavering gaze ...
Despite the initial outcry, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe has gone on to inspire countless generations of artists, and has become
an artistic icon of our times.

5. Edouard Manet
Manet exhibited Le déjeuner sur l’herbe at the Salon des Refusés, where it became the principal attraction, generating both
laughter and scandal.
The presence of a nude woman among clothed men is justified neither by mythological nor allegorical precedents.
This, and the contemporary dress, rendered the strange and almost unreal scene obscene in the eyes of the public of the day.
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe - testimony to Manet's refusal to conform to convention and his initiation of a new freedom from
traditional subjects and modes of representation - can perhaps be considered as the departure point for Modern Art.

6. a basket of fruit, a round loaf of bread, woman's clothes
a lightly clad woman bathing in a stream
and
a nude woman casually lunching with two fully dressed men
… all under the watchful eye of a bird, suspiciously positioned like the
iconic 'Dove of Christ' that adorns so many Medieval and Renaissance
works
Edouard Manet
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
The Luncheon on the Grass
1863
Musée d’Orsay, Paris

10. It is now thought that Manet was at least partly inspired by two works which would have been staple masterpieces of his time.
The first is The Judgment of Paris by Marcantonio Raimondi. In the bottom right hand corner, a water nymph and two river gods
are sat on the ground watching the judgment of Paris in poses which are exactly reminiscent of the poses adopted in
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe.
As for Manet’s decision to mix his nude with clothed male characters, it is likely that Manet took inspiration from Pastoral Concert
attributed to Titian.
Here two contemporaneously clothed men are joined by two naked nymphs – but this was excusable being that the nymphs were
inherently and permanently naked.

11. The Luncheon on the Grass also references The Judgment
of Paris, an engraving depicting a scene from Greek mythology.
Specifically, Manet was inspired by the poses and formation
of three figures—two river gods and a water nymph—in the lower
right-hand corner of the piece.
Marcantonio Raimondi
The Judgment of Paris
Le jugement de Pâris
1510-1520
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

15. two dressed men seated in a rural setting, with two
undressed women ...
Pastoral Concert even more closely resembles Le Déjeuner
sur l'herbe
So what caused such a scandal?
shocking was that there was no attempt to hide the female
identity by presenting her as a nymph, a goddess or some
other mythological figure.
In place of a Venus or a Nymph, Manet painted an ordinary
girl who stares directly at the viewer and smiles.
Tiziano Vecellio
Le Concert champêtre
Pastoral Concert
1509
Musée du Louvre, Paris

19. Claude Monet
Claude Monet's own version of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe from 1865–1866, was inspired by Manet's painting.

20. the two remaining fragments of the monumental Luncheon
on the Grass by Monet ...
The work was started in the spring of 1865 and measured
over four meters by six.
But the project was abandoned.
Monet got the painting back in1884, cut it up, and kept only
three fragments. The third has now disappeared.
Claude Monet
Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
The Picnic
1865-1866
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

26. At the same time as the large canvas Monet painted a smaller
version ...
it is this version that now makes it possible to reconstruct the
original plan for the work with the utmost accuracy
the artist modelled the figures having a picnic on his friends,
but he was interested not so much in portraying everyday details,
as conveying the play of sunlight on the ladies' dresses and
the tablecloth spread on the grass.
Claude Monet
Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
The Picnic
1865
Pushkin Museum, Moscow

31. Paul Cézanne
Cézanne and its ties to Manet and Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe …

32. a small, dense composition
a luncheon scene between young
people in nature
Paul Cézanne
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe
Luncheon on the Grass
1876-1877
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

35. a strange, dream-like atmosphere
a tablecloth spread out on the grass, on which lie nothing but
two oranges
a tall, bent woman with loosened golden hair,
a man in the foreground, he resembles the young, prematurely
bald Cezanne,
a solemn, rigid figure, smoking a pipe ...
a man dressed like Cezanne and the huge woman go off into
the dark woods arm in arm
Paul Cézanne
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe
Luncheon on the Grass
1869-1870
Private Collection

39. The painting can be interpreted as the young artist's personal
response to Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe,
both paintings pair clothed men with nude women.
Manet's mediocre copse wood with its improbable, shallow pool
has been replaced by large trees, slippery ground,
and a deep lake.
Cezanne has inserted himself into the scene: reclining in
a meditative pose reflective and indifferent to the tempting
female bathers,
while his commonplace companions drink, crouch in the grass,
or puff on their pipes.
There's not the slightest breeze, no hint of sound, and it is
difficult to say how the solitary navigator will get to his Cythera,
for the sail of his skiff is a sadly dangling affair.
... we are no longer in the sheer, realist world of Le Déjeuner sur
l’herbe
Paul Cézanne
Idylle, Pastorale
Idyll, Pastorale
1870
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

43. Pablo Picasso
Picasso and Manet and his Déjeuner
The protagonists in Manet’s Déjeuner become actors.
The characters, women and men, are re-clothed or undressed.
They move closer or further away.
One reads, another smokes.
One is speaking; another is picking a flower.
Sometimes there are four, sometimes three ...

44. On 27 February 1960, Picasso delivered
his first version of Déjeuner.
the landscape clears up,
the bather in the background interferes
between the two men.
Victorine Meurent swells like a balloon.
her neighbor shrinks.
Pablo Picasso
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe d'après Manet
The Luncheon on the Grass (after Manet)
27 février 1960, February 1960, Vauvenargues
Nahmad Collection

47. green, black with a bit of blue
Picasso's Victorine no longer looks at the viewer
but silently dialogue with the character in front of her
Pablo Picasso
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe d'après Manet
The Luncheon on the Grass (after Manet)
3 mars-20 août 1960, Vauvenargues
Musée Picasso, Paris

51. Picasso returned to Manet in 1961 …
and revolutionized this whole little world
by undressing everyone.
The man with a book in his hand is truly
Cézanian.
Pablo Picasso
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe d'après Manet
The Luncheon on the Grass (after Manet)
12 juillet 1961, 12 July 1961,
Mougins
Musée Picasso, Paris

54. On July 27, Picasso transformed Le déjeuner
again.
This time, he eliminated Victorine's neighbor
and all the accessories.
The "Talker" loses his hair, obviously ages
and irresistibly evokes the painter himself.
Picasso enters the painting to dialogue
directly with a Victorina who might look like
his wife Jacqueline.
Pablo Picasso
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe d'après Manet
The Luncheon on the Grass (after Manet)
27 juillet, July 27, 1961
Musée Picasso, Paris

57. Luncheon on the grass in 1962 …
Picasso takes the characters
to real nature.
To emphasize the outdoors,
he draws in pencil the trees
that will surround the concrete
bathers.
Pablo Picasso
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe d'après Manet
The Luncheon on the Grass (after
Manet)
17 juin, June 17, 1962
Musée Picasso, Paris

60. Alain Jacquet
Lunch on the grass ...
we are in full pop art

61. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
100 years after the original was painted …
Mr. Jacquet, associated with Pop Art and the
minimovement known as Mec Art (for mechanical art),
in Déjeuner sur l’herbe posed three friends, including
the French critic Pierre Restany and his wife,
in modern dress and slipped in a commercially
packaged loaf of bread with the label “Jacquet.”
Where Manet's landscape is pure nature, Jacquet
replaces the stream by a pool, contextualizing his
setting in a reality of a consumerist bourgeoisie.
Alain Jacquet
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
(diptyque, diptych)
1964
Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, MAMAC, Nice

64. Herman Braun-Vega
Le déjeuner sur l’herbe by Manet with Picasso and Velázquez guests

65. … a tribute to Picasso who produced both a series of paintings
inspired by Le déjeuner sur l’herbe and an other series by Las
Meninas
Herman Braun-Vega
Les invités sur l'herbe d'après Vélasquez, Manet et Picasso
1970
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

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… un déjeuner sur l'herbe. Variations sur Le déjeuner sur l'herbe de Manet
… a luncheon on the grass. Variations on Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass
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