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

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

Dappled sunlight filters through trees onto figures gathered for an outdoor meal, rendered in luminous brushwork across two monumental canvases. Monet's ambitious reinterpretation of Manet's iconic composition revolutionized how light and leisure could anchor modernist painting.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
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