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Luncheon on the Grass

Edouard Manet was a famous nineteenth-century French painter.  He was an influential Impressionist painter, using everyday subject matter, vivid color, and stress on light in his art.  Manet painted and exhibited Luncheon on the Grass (Dejeuner sur l’Herbe) in 1863.  This masterpiece shocked Victorian Parisians, as it shows a nude woman seated at a picnic lunch with two fully dressed young men.  Luncheon on the Grass now is exhibited in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, France.       

LINCCWeb Online Catalog – Search Term

• Manet, Edouard (Subject)

Call Number for Browsing the Shelves

• ND553 .M3

Circulating Books and Resources – A Selected List

• Cachin, Francoise.  Manet.  1991.

                           Call Number: ND553 .M3 C3 1991

• Cahan, Claudia Lyn.  Manet.  1980.

                           Call Number: ND553 .M3 A4 1980

• Harris, Nathaniel.  Paintings of Manet.  1989.

                             Call Number: ND553 .M3 1989a

• Lallemand, Henri.  Manet: A Visionary Impressionist.  1994.

                            Call Number: ND553 .M3 L35 1994b

• Wilson-Bareau, Juliet (Ed.).  Manet By Himself.  2004.

                            Call Number: ND553 .M3 A3 2004b

Reference Materials

• Art History (Revised Second Edition) – (by Marilyn Stokstad).  2005.  

                            Call Number: REF  N5300 .S923 2005                              

o   Pgs. 980-981

• Gardner’s Art Through the Ages (Tenth Edition). 1996.

                            Call Number: REF  N5300 .G25 1996  

o     Pgs. 980-982

• Great Artists of the Western World: Impressionism. 1987.    

                              Call Number: REF  N40 .G77 1987

o   Vol. 7, pgs. 15, 19, 20, 24-25

• Masterpieces of Western Art: Romantic Age to Present Day. 1996. 

                               Call Number: REF N5300 .M27 1996

o   Vol. 2,  pg. 491

Research Databases

To access Valencia’s research databases, open your Atlas account, select ‘Search the Library’, then select ‘Databases A-Z’.

• Academic One File

• Academic Search Complete

• JSTOR

• Oxford Art Online

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