Explore the Inspired works of this artwork, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
In L'Oeuvre, Émile Zola's 1886 novel about a painter, a work by his main character, Claude Lantier, exhibited in a fictional salon des refusés, resembles Manet's painting.Claude Monet's own version of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe from 1865–1866, was inspired by Manet's painting. After Monet finished his painting, Manet was conscious of that artwork and renamed his own artwork "Le Bain" to "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe" in 1867.
French painter James Tissot, painted La Partie Carrée, in 1870; arguably a tamer version without the nudity of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.Paul Cézanne painted the same theme in his Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1876–1877), Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris. It is not certain, however, that Cézanne was responsible for the title of the work, but it does incorporate many of the same elements of subject in the piece. For example, Cézanne's clothed female subject poses similarly to the model of Manet in which her chin rests in her hand. The male figure, meant to resemble the painter himself, mimics the hand gesture of the man furthest right in Manet's piece. The composition of Cézanne's painting also bears resemblance to Bacchanal (between 1627 and 1628), by Nicolas Poussin, whose works in the Louvre were periodically copied by Cézanne. It is possible that Cézanne's Déjeuner represents nothing more than the joyful memories of outings in the countryside around Aix-en-Provence, known especially from the testimony of a childhood friend of the painter, Émile Zola.Manet's painting inspired Picasso as he completed the largest concentration of art prompted by a single work during the 20th century, consisting of 27 paintings, 140 drawings, 3 linogravures and cardboard marquettes for sculpture carried out between 1949 and 1962. Picasso also adopted some of Manet's techniques involving exploitation of the nude in the foreground as evident in his work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907.
Paul Gauguin may have been inspired by this piece in creating his 1896 work Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?, as there is a similarity of Manet's depiction of the nude woman and Gauguin's Tahitian woman.
Max Ernst painted a parody version of this piece named Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbre in 1944. He inverts the painting, replaces the nude woman with a fish, and adds an 'r' to the title for comedic effect.
The painting inspired the 1959 film of the same name by Jean Renoir.
Alain Jacquet copied in 1964 the composition of Manet in his Déjeuner sur l'herbe:, a serie of 95 serigraphies portraying the art critic Pierre Restany and the painter Mario Schifano, one of which was left in the lobby of the hotel Chelsea in New York City for payment of his room.
Peruvian painter Herman Braun-Vega produced many works inspired by this painting. One of the first, Les invités sur l’herbe, 1970, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, is a mix between Las Meninas by Velazquez and Le déjeuner sur l’herbe by Manet, which features Picasso and Velasquez as naked guests. It is a tribute to Picasso who produced both a series of paintings inspired by Le déjeuner sur l’herbe and an other series inspired by Las Meninas. It also is part of a series called Picasso dans un déjeuner sur l’herbe described as “seriously hilarious” by art critic John Canaday. Later Braun-Vega produced other inspired works like Encore un déjeuner sur le sable,1984, where he pictures himself in place of one of the characters. This work as the following ones is typical of the syncretism that characterizes the work of Braun-Vega from the 80s. He mixes contemporary characters (mainly south american ones) with Manet’s characters as he does in Cita en el campo and Cita en la Playa in 1985;  Fin d’un déjeuner sur l’herbe in 1987 and Picnic en el Patio in 1988, showing critical irony about his time as in I love the neutron bomb, lithography,1986. He also moves the scene to Central Park  for his 1999 New-York exhibition with, Le déjeuner in Central Park (Château Malescasse collection).
New Jazz Orchestra released the album titled Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe in 1968 and its cover shows a photograph resembling Manet's painting. Dave Gelly's liner notes for the 2014 CD reissue assert that the cover photograph "was inspired by a Picasso lithograph of the famous Monet painting"; it is not clear if this attribution comes from Gelly himself or one of his sources.
It was copied in the cover photo of the Bow Wow Wow LP See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!, and the EP The Last of the Mohicans. Controversy arose because the naked girl (lead singer Annabella Lwin) was only 14 at the time.
It was also parodied by Neon Park in the cover of Lowell George's only solo album, "Thanks I'll Eat It Here" with Marlene Dietrich, Fidel Castro and Bob Dylan as the diners.
Priit Pärn used the painting as the basis of the 1987 short film Eine murul (Breakfast on the Grass), depicting the day that led to the four subjects of the original painting meeting for their luncheon.
Mickalene Thomas has produced Le déjeuner sur l'herbe: les trois femmes noires (2010). The painting is both a critique of and reference to Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe. Thomas' piece portrays three bold, black women adorned with rich colors, patterned clothing, and radiant Afro-styled hair; the women's positioning and posing is reminiscent of the subjects of Manet's piece, but the gazes of all three women are fixed on the viewer. Thomas created the painting, her largest piece at the time, in 2010 after being commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
Gilbert Shelton parodied it for the cover of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic #3.
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