
On the Cover 3.2
Édouard Manet’s painting Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) has inspired multiple homages since its scandalizing debut in 1863. You’ve seen it: two overdressed men (dandies) join a totally nude woman/prostitute (likely the model, muse, and artist Victorine Meurent) for a picnic while another woman/prostitute in a slip crouches behind them in knee-high water. The male figures gaze into an indeterminate distance, but our nude looks at—or at least toward—the viewer with a