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MONET, Claude: Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (The Picnic, fragment)

🖼 Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (The Picnic, fragment), 1865-66
Oil on canvas
418 × 150 cm
Paris, France

Dappled sunlight filters through leafy branches onto an elegant gathering, rendered in loose brushstrokes that capture fleeting atmospheric effects. Monet's ambitious early work challenged academic tradition, pioneering Impressionism's focus on light and perception over historical narrative.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
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