yet in le dejeuner sur l'herbe, manet was paying tribute to europe's artistic heritage, borrowing his subject from the concert champetre - a painting by titian attributed at the time to giorgione ( louvre ) - and taking his inspiration for the composition of the central group from the marcantonio raimondi engraving after raphael's judgement of paris. but the classical references were counterbalanced by manet's boldness. people picknicking on a meadow in the woods. blanket, beer. one woman with three men. this, and the contemporary dress, rendered the strange and almost unreal scene obscene in the eyes of the public of the day. manet himself jokingly nicknamed his painting la partie carree.