Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe

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oil painting painting

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is a groundbreaking 1863 painting by Édouard Manet that scandalized contemporary audiences with its depiction of a nude woman picnicking with clothed men and is now seen as a key precursor to modern art.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe	4
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe canonical	2
The Luncheon on the Grass	2
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T510505 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Context triple: [Musée d'Orsay, notableWorkHeld, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe]

A. Le Lys dans la vallée
Le Lys dans la vallée is a 1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays an intense, unfulfilled love affair set against the backdrop of French provincial society, and is considered one of his major works in La Comédie humaine.
B. Scènes de la vie de province
Scènes de la vie de province is a series of interlinked novels by Honoré de Balzac depicting the social, political, and personal lives of characters in provincial France as part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
C. La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
D. Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
E. The Yellow House
The Yellow House is a famous 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his residence in Arles, France, and is considered a key work of Post-Impressionism.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Target entity description: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is a groundbreaking 1863 painting by Édouard Manet that scandalized contemporary audiences with its depiction of a nude woman picnicking with clothed men and is now seen as a key precursor to modern art.

A. Le Lys dans la vallée
Le Lys dans la vallée is a 1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays an intense, unfulfilled love affair set against the backdrop of French provincial society, and is considered one of his major works in La Comédie humaine.
B. Scènes de la vie de province
Scènes de la vie de province is a series of interlinked novels by Honoré de Balzac depicting the social, political, and personal lives of characters in provincial France as part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
C. La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
D. Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
E. The Yellow House
The Yellow House is a famous 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his residence in Arles, France, and is considered a key work of Post-Impressionism.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	oil painting ⓘ painting ⓘ
artForm	easel painting ⓘ
artHistoricalContext	challenge to academic conventions ⓘ transition from academic art to modernism ⓘ
authorOfCriticalReception	Émile Zola ⓘ
collection	Musée d'Orsay collection ⓘ linked to: Musée d'Orsay
countryOfOrigin	France ⓘ
creator	Édouard Manet ⓘ
depicts	basket of fruit ⓘ discarded clothing ⓘ nude woman ⓘ picnic scene ⓘ rural landscape ⓘ still life with food ⓘ two clothed men ⓘ woman bathing in background ⓘ
exhibitedAt	Salon des Refusés ⓘ linked to: Salon of 1863
exhibitionDate	1863 Salon des Refusés ⓘ
genre	history of modern art ⓘ
hasInfluenced	Claude Monet ⓘ Paul Cézanne ⓘ
hasPart	background bather ⓘ foreground group of three figures ⓘ still life arrangement ⓘ
historicalSignificance	influenced Impressionist painters ⓘ key work in the emergence of modern painting ⓘ
inception	1863 ⓘ
inspiredBy	Pastoral Concert (attributed to Titian or Giorgione) ⓘ The Judgment of Paris theme ⓘ
locatedIn	Paris ⓘ
location	Musée d'Orsay ⓘ
mainSubject	female nude ⓘ male bourgeois figures ⓘ
materialUsed	oil paint ⓘ
movement	Realism ⓘ proto-Impressionism ⓘ
notableFor	bold contrasts of light and dark ⓘ flattened perspective ⓘ precursor to modern art ⓘ radical treatment of the nude ⓘ scandalizing contemporary audiences ⓘ
originalLanguageTitle	French ⓘ
placeOfFirstExhibition	Paris ⓘ
significantEvent	rejected by Paris Salon 1863 ⓘ
surface	canvas ⓘ
title	Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe ⓘ
translatedTitle	The Luncheon on the Grass ⓘ linked to: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe

How these facts were elicited