History Art / LeDejeunerSurLHerbe

** While the figures have impressive attention to detail, the grass and other details in the background looked loose and unfinished, something that would later define other Impressionist painters.

See also ''{{Art/Olympia}}'', another Manet painting decried by the nudity.

* NippleAndDimed: The woman in the foreground's nipples are completely covered by her arm and the shadow it casts. They don't cover her {{sideboob}}s, though.

* DiningInTheBuff: Depicts one of the women enjoying the picnic completely naked.

* {{Impressionism}}: It captures a SliceOfLice scene -- the characters are merely having a picnic. It also disrupts two Elements of art: the scenery's textures are left purposefully in poor detail and the perspective (aka, space) is wrong, giving the impression of an absence of separation between the forefront and the background.

* NippleAndDimed: The woman in the foreground's nipples are completely covered by her arm and the shadow it casts, though there is {{Sideboob}}.

** The nude woman is depicted with an absence of contrast you would see from nudes in other paintings, critics commenting that the lighting looks as though it was done in a studio. What few shadows there are depicts them as stark compared to her light skin, the shadows almost outlining her figure.

* TakeThat: The whole piece is Manet's artistic middle finger to the Salon, a long-running annual French exhibition that defined art at the time by virtue of [[ReviewsAreTheGospel "If the Salon rejects it, it's not art."]] The painting tightly follows all of the technical aspects of the style that the Salon endorsed, while blatantly mocking the StrictlyFormula themes and subjects the juries traditionally favored, and parodying the quirks of pieces venerated as flawless.

* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: {{Downplayed}}. The men are fully clothed in Parisian fashion. One of the women is wearing a white dress that is made transparent due to her time in the water, while the other is completely naked, the blue dress and hat beside her implying that she had stripped where they had laid out their picnic.

* ArtImitatesArt: Manet had a deep understanding of art history, having based the painting off of ''Judgement of Paris'' (ca. 1515) by Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael, ''Pastoral Concert'' by Giorgione or Titian, ''Art/TheTempest'' by Creator/{{Giorgione}} and ''La Partie Carrée'' by Antoine Watteau.

* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: Downplayed. The men are fully-clothed in Parisian fashion. One of the women is wearing a white dress that is made transparent due to her time in the water, while the other is completely naked, the blue dress and hat beside her implying that she had stripped where they had laid out their picnic.
* NippleAndDimed: Her nipples are completely covered by her arm and the shadow it casts, though there is {{Sideboob}}.

* ArtImitatesArt: Manet had a deep understanding of art history, having based the painting off of ''Judgement of Paris'' (ca. 1515) by Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael, ''Pastoral Concert'' by Giorgione or Titian, ''The Tempest'' by Giorgione and ''La Partie Carrée'' by Antoine Watteau.

''Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'', known to English-speakers as ''The Luncheon on the Grass'', is a 81.9 x 104.1 in (208 by 264.5 cm) oil painting by father of Impressionism Édouard Manet. Originally titled ''Le Bain'' (''The Bath''), ''Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'' depicts two men and two women at what remains of a picnic out in the open. The men are fully clothed, while one woman faces the viewer, having stripped down to nothing, while the other woman is scantily clad in the pond in the background.

** The woman in the pond it too large for the amount of distance the painting implies her to be, with her thumb lining up with the man on the right's thumb to collapse the illusion of depth.

* TakeThat: The whole piece is Manet's artistic middle finger to the Salon, a long-running annual French exhibition that pretty much-defined art at the time by virtue of [[ReviewsAreTheGospel "If the Salon rejects it, it's not art."]] The painting tightly follows all of the technical aspects of the style that the Salon endorsed, while blatantly mocking the StrictlyFormula themes and subjects the juries traditionally favored, and parodying the quirks of pieces venerated as flawless.

''Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'', known to English-speakers as ''The Luncheon on the Grass'', is a 81.9 x 104.1 in (208 by 264.5 cm) oil painting by father of Impressionism Édouard Manet. Originally titled ''Le Bain'' (''The Bath''), ''Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe'' depicts two men and two women at what remains of a picnic out in the open. The men are fully clothed, while one woman faces the viewer, having stripped down to nothing, while the other woman is scantily clad in the pond in the background.

* TakeThat: the whole piece is Manet's artistic middle finger to the Salon, a long-running annual French exhibition that pretty much defined art at the time by virtue of [[ReviewsAreTheGospel "If the Salon rejects it, it's not art."]] The painting tightly follows all of the technical aspects of the style that the Salon endorsed, while blatantly mocking the StrictlyFormula themes and subjects the juries traditionally favored, and parodying the quirks of pieces venerated as flawless.

* OurNudityIsDifferent: In a case of YourNormalIsOurTaboo, one of the reasons behind the painting's controversy is due to the figures in the painting were modern, the clothed figures wearing fashionable Parisian hinting at the painting being set in modern times. At the time, nude men and women depicted in paintings were normally goddesses and other mythical figures, so the fact that the nude woman is a regular human without the pretense of myth and time was considered scandalous for its day. Others followed in that trend, such as Gustave Courbet with ''Art/LOrigineDuMonde''.

* OurNudityIsDifferent: In a case of YourNormalIsOurTaboo, one of the reasons behind the painting's controversy is due to the figures in the painting were modern, the clothed figures wearing fashionable Parisian hinting at the painting being set in modern times. At the time, nude men and women depicted in paintings were normally goddesses and other mythical figures, so the fact that the nude woman is a regular human without the pretense of myth and time was considered scandalous for its day.

* TakeThat: the whole piece is Manet's artistic middle finger to the Salon, a long-running annual French exhibition that pretty much defined art at the time by virtue of [[ReviewsAreTheGospel "If the Salon rejects it, it's not art."]] The painting tightly follows all of the technical aspects of the style that the Salon endorsed, while blatantly mocking the StrictlyFormula themes and subjects the juries traditionally favored.