Edouard Manet’s ‘Le dejeuner sur l’herbe’ goes on display, shocks viewers 150 years ago today (1863)


(Friday, May 15, 1863) — Edouard Manet’s painting Le dejeuner sur l’herbe (The Lunch on the Grass) went on display in Paris today, scandalizing viewers with its depiction of a nude woman seated on the ground with two fully dressed men at a picnic in a wooded area.