Impressionism's Big Scandal? Waldemar On Manet's Masterpiece | Art Mysteries

Waldemar looks at Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe, a large oil painting produced by Edouard Manet in 1862. This astonishing composition introduced an entirely new painterly approach, since it encompassed the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life within a single painting. Luncheon on the Grass...

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