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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.
Aix-les-Bains (US: / ˌ eɪ k s l eɪ ˈ b æ̃, ˌ ɛ k s-/, [3] French: [ɛks le bɛ̃] ⓘ; Arpitan: Èx-los-Bens; Latin: Aquae Gratianae), known locally and simply as Aix, is a commune in the southeastern French department of Savoie.
Évian-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [evjɑ̃ le bɛ̃]), or simply Évian (Arpitan: Èvian, Évyan, or L'Èvian), is a commune in Eastern France, by the border with Switzerland. It is located in the northern part of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Bain (The Wheel of Time), character from the novels by Robert Jordan; Sunset Bain, a Marvel Comics character; Sheriff Joe Bain, a character in the work of Jack Vance; Miguel Bain, a character in the film Assassins; Noah Bain, a character in the TV Series It Takes a Thief; Bain, a character from the video game Payday 2
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁvɛ le bɛ̃]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, southeastern France.The village is best known for tourism and has been a popular holiday destination since the early 1900s.
Le Bain de Diane (The Bath of Diana) is a French 1550s painting attributed to François Clouet, located in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen. [1] According to Eckhardt Knab, writing in The Dictionary of Art , it is an example of an allegorical landscape and refers to the marriage of Francis II and Mary Stuart , who is depicted as Diana in the ...
“Old vine” is a commonly used term in the world of high-end wine. It seems to imply something regal about a wine, a greater sense of depth, concentration or profundity of character.
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 ...