Fashionable Parisians gather under the trees of the Tuileries for an afternoon concert, though no musicians appear. Manet filled the crowd with friends, among them Baudelaire, Gautier, Fantin-Latour, Offenbach and his brother Eugène. Its quick, sketchy handling and modern subject angered visitors in 1863, and it pointed the way for Monet and Renoir.
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Manet included himself at the far left edge, beside the painter Albert de Balleroy. The iron chairs in the foreground had only just replaced wooden ones in the gardens.
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