The painter Gaston Balande, 1880-1971, was born in Saujon, France, and took part in numerous Beaux-Arts salons during his lifetime. This painting is in the tradition of Edouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe painted in 1862 and 1863, without the brazenness of the nude woman.

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