The painting was named Luncheon on the Grass, or by its French name Le Dèjeuner sur l’Herbe. Manet had been inspired by Raphael’s Judgment of Paris, but Manet’s inspiration was considered too bold.2 Manet’s work had innovative, looser painting style which included a brighter palette than that of other artists of the 1860s. Manet used broad, visible stokes and distorted the sense of space in the painting. Manet’s painting techniques were intentionally non-traditional. Manet painted en plein air which captured “atmosphere and light as one
The painting was named Luncheon on the Grass, or by its French name Le Dèjeuner sur l’Herbe. Manet had been inspired by Raphael’s Judgment of Paris, but Manet’s inspiration was considered too bold.2 Manet’s work had innovative, looser painting style which included a brighter palette than that of other artists of the 1860s. Manet used broad, visible stokes and distorted the sense of space in the painting. Manet’s painting techniques were intentionally non-traditional. Manet painted en plein air which captured “atmosphere and light as one