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Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (French: [lə deʒœne syʁ lɛʁb,-ʒøn-]; The Luncheon on the Grass) – originally titled Le Bain (The Bath) – is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet created in 1862 and 1863. It depicts a female nude and a scantily dressed female bather on a picnic with two fully dressed men in a rural setting.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) – originally titled Le Bain (The Bath) – by Édouard Manet (1862–3), represents a late variant of the genre, as does Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte) by Georges Seurat (1884–6). [6]
He was inspired by Pieter de Hooch and Vermeer, and painted both on wood panel and, as in the case of Le bain, on canvas. Stevens made his name in Paris as a painter of beautifully dressed ladies. [1] Unlike Franz Xaver Winterhalter, the official portraitist of the French imperial family, Stevens chose his models among the wealthy upper class ...
The first "Fêtes de Bayonne," called "The Big Summer Festival," took place on July 13, 1932. It was instigated by a group of friends belonging to the Aviron Bayonnais rugby team. They wanted to create celebrations similar to those of San Fermin in Pamplona , Southern Basque Country (famous for their Running of the Bulls ) in Bayonne.
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Rennes-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [ʁɛn le bɛ̃] ⓘ; Occitan: Los Banhs de Rènnas) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.. Bathers have enjoyed the natural hot spring waters for thousands of years - they are still used today as a cure for rheumatism and certain skin problems.
The Turkish Bath (Le Bain turc) is an oil painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, initially completed between 1852 and 1859, but modified in 1862. [1] The painting depicts a group of nude women at a pool in a harem. [1] It has an erotic style that evokes both the Near East and earlier western styles associated with mythological subject matter.
Le Temps des cerises The song was later strongly associated with the Paris Commune , during which verses were added to the song, thus becoming a revolutionary song . The "Time of Cherries" is a metaphor regarding what life will be like when a revolution will have changed social and economic conditions.