Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, by Édouard Manet
  • 1. Who painted 'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'?
A) Édouard Manet
B) Pierre-Auguste Renoir
C) Claude Monet
D) Paul Cézanne
  • 2. In what year was 'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe' completed?
A) 1855
B) 1863
C) 1870
D) 1880
  • 3. What was the original French title of the painting?
A) Les Baigneuses
B) Le Pique-nique
C) Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
D) Le Jardin
  • 4. Where is 'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe' currently housed?
A) Musée d'Orsay, Paris
B) National Gallery, London
C) Metropolitan Museum, New York
D) Louvre Museum, Paris
  • 5. Which artistic movement is Manet associated with?
A) Surrealism
B) Baroque
C) Cubism
D) Impressionism
  • 6. What was controversial about the painting when first exhibited?
A) Nude woman with clothed men
B) The clothing styles shown
C) The picnic food depicted
D) The landscape background
  • 7. Who was the model for the nude woman in the foreground?
A) Suzanne Manet
B) Victorine Meurent
C) Camille Doncieux
D) Berthe Morisot
  • 8. What is the English translation of the title?
A) Breakfast in the Garden
B) Picnic in the Park
C) Luncheon on the Grass
D) Dinner in the Meadow
  • 9. How did critics initially react to the painting?
A) With indifference
B) With great admiration
C) With shock and outrage
D) With confusion
  • 10. Which emperor established the Salon des Refusés?
A) Louis XIV
B) Louis Philippe
C) Napoleon III
D) Napoleon Bonaparte
  • 11. Which other Manet painting caused similar controversy?
A) The Balcony
B) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
C) The Fifer
D) Olympia
  • 12. What is the overall lighting effect in the painting?
A) Soft and diffused
B) Moonlit
C) Harsh and direct
D) Candlelit
  • 13. Which writer defended Manet's work?
A) Émile Zola
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Victor Hugo
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 14. What modern quality did the painting introduce?
A) Mythological themes
B) Abstract forms
C) Contemporary realism
D) Religious symbolism
  • 15. Where was 'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe' first publicly shown after being rejected by the official Salon?
A) The Musée d'Orsay
B) The Louvre
C) The Paris Opera
D) The Salon des Refusés
  • 16. What is notable about the perspective in the painting?
A) It creates an optical illusion
B) The figures appear disconnected from the background
C) It uses perfect linear perspective
D) It has multiple vanishing points
  • 17. Which later artist created a modern version of this composition?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Andy Warhol
D) Salvador Dalí
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