Some experts have called this work "the origin of Impressionism". Manet shocked the Art world when he exhibited the painting at the Salon des Refusés in 1863. Émile Zola wrote about this monumental canvas: "It is, in short, this vast ensemble, full of atmosphere, this corner of nature rendered with a simplicity so just, all of this admirable page in which an artist has placed all the particular and rare elements which are in him".
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