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MONET, Claude: The Picnic

🖼 The Picnic, 1865
Oil on canvas
130 × 181 cm
Moscow, Russia

Dappled sunlight filters through trees onto figures in elegant dress, arranged across a meadow in loose, naturalistic grouping. Monet's early masterpiece abandons academic formality, capturing fleeting light effects and modern leisure—establishing Impressionism's break from tradition.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Daniel Wildenstein
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