Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Edouard Manet - Luncheon on the Grass - Google Art Project.jpg

Luncheon on the Grass
Voting period ends on 30 Jul 2014  at 19:59:36 (UTC)
 * Reason:Manet created a scandal when he exhibited Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, in which a model is depicted naked. Portraits and nudes even without a pretense to allegorical or mythological meaning were a fairly common genre of art during all centuries. Paintings of non-allegoric depictions of nude females were not uncommon, especially paintings of mistresses and lovers of kings, dukes and other aristocrats and mistresses and wives of the artists. Luncheon on the Grass was different in only one way, it was exhibited on a public art exhibition and was a profane female nude depicted in a contemporary enviroment.
 * Articles in which this image appears: The Luncheon on the Grass; Salon des Refusés; Succès de scandale; A Woman with No Clothes On;1863 in art; Édouard Manet; + c. 12 more
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Édouard Manet


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 19:59, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support – An important painting. CorinneSD (talk) 21:18, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Coat of Many Colours (talk) 23:05, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:13, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support....but why is she naked???Rreagan007 (talk) 04:29, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support -  SagaciousPhil   -  Chat  13:12, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 20:49, 30 July 2014 (UTC)