A naked woman picnics in a wood with two fully dressed young men and looks straight out at us, while a second woman bathes in the stream behind. Rejected by the Salon jury, it caused a scandal at the 1863 Salon des Refusés. Manet took the poses from a Raphael design engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi and painted modern Parisians at the scale of history painting.
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The woman's discarded clothes, a basket of fruit and a round loaf at lower left form a still life. The bather behind is painted far too large for her distance.
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