From: Musée d’Orsay, Paris
This fragment, there is a second also in the Musée d'Orsay, is one of the remaining parts of the monumental Luncheon on the Grass by Monet.
The work was started in the spring of 1865 and measured over four metres by six.
It was intended to be both a tribute and a challenge to Manet whose painting of the same title had been the subject of much sarcasm from the public as well as the critics when it was exhibited in the Salon des Refusés in 1863.
But the project was abandoned in 1866, just before the Salon where Monet intended to show it, opened.
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