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The nude in the painting is Suzanne Manet's body with Victorine Meurent's face superimposed. The fully dressed men are Gustave Manet and the Manet brothers' good friend and future brother-in-law, Ferdinand Leenhof. The root of the public outrage against 'The Luncheon on the Grass' stemmed from the recognizability of the subjects, and gossip describing the scene as prostitution targeted the subjects.
Today, Manet's work is considered a watershed. One of Manet's lesser paintings recently sold at auction for $33.2 Million.
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legerdemerabout 7 years agoYou succeeded very nicely in evoking the two scenes - a delicious contrast between the repressed and titillated mood of the salon and the looser, increasingly inflamed mood of the atelier. Well done!
Blind_Justiceover 10 years agoYour story was not only an arousing read, I learned something about art as well.
You also played with my expectations. I went into the story for the promise of a quick lesbian group romp and instead got a deftly written historical piece where the language and mood were almost better than the sex itself. Well done.
Privates1stClassover 10 years agoYeah, Manet created quite a stir with his painting. Who'd have guessed then what it might be worth today?
With a naked woman joining them for a picnic, you notice they forgot eat the bread, leaving it for the ants.
A great story about an old painting. Keep up the good work.
patientleeover 10 years agoBefore I write What the Hell Are You Looking At?, I researched the painting as well. I just kept coming back to my initial reaction when I first saw it. Why the hell are these women naked? I never felt drawn to putting myself in the painting. I always saw it from the outside.
I love that you were able to see an entirely different perspective, like you climbed into the painting, one naked leg at a time. I like the historical tone as well. I didn't attempt that in my version. I could almost imagine reading this in my college French classes.
So who's next? Let's hear it from the woman in the chemise. Or the ridiculously clothed dandies lying on the ground.
Patientlee
