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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.
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 ...
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu". In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal.
Du côté de chez Swann is divided into four parts: "Combray I" (sometimes referred to in English as the "Overture"), "Combray II", "Un Amour de Swann" ("Swann in Love"), and "Noms de pays: le nom" ("Names of places: the name"). A third-person novella within Du côté de chez Swann, "Un Amour de Swann" is sometimes published as a volume by ...
Les Temps Modernes filled the void left by the disappearance of the most important pre-war literary magazine, La Nouvelle Revue Française (The New French Review), considered to be André Gide's magazine, which was shut down by the authorities after the liberation of France because of its collaboration with the occupation.
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 ...
Gare de Cambo-les-Bains, railway station in Cambo-les-Bains; Chambéry Aix-les-Bains Airport, alternative name for Chambéry Airport; Gare d'Ogeu-les-Bains, railway station in Ogeu-les-Bains; Gare de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet, railway station in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains; Funiculaire de Thonon-les-Bains, funicular railway in the spa town ...
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.