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The Luncheon is a painting by Edouard Manet
In the summer of 1868 Manet travelled to Boulogne-sur-Mer for his summer vacation. Oil canvases such as Jetty at Boulogne and Beach at Boulogne were among the plein-air seascapes that resulted. Manet also painted an interior scene on a five-foot-wide canvas. Called The Luncheon it was posed in the dining room of the Manet's rented house, that of a retired sailor, and featured a portrait of Leon Koella standing in the foreground.. The young amn stands in front of a table that bears the remains of a meal of oysters. Seated at the table, smoking a cigar, enjoying both a coffee and a digestif is the painter Auguste Rousselin, a friend of Manet since their time together in the studio of Thomas Couture.