Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)
 

Luncheon in the Studio (or The Luncheon) is an 1868 oil painting by Édouard Manet. Partially a portrait of 16-year-old Léon Leenhoff — the son of Suzanne Leenhoff before her 1863 marriage to Manet, and possibly the son of Manet or Manet's father Auguste — it is also an enigmatic work that has received limited attention within Manet's oeuvre. Critic Nan Stalnaker notes that "despite continued questions about its meaning, the work is acknowledged to be brilliantly painted and a major Manet work". 

The painting was exhibited in the 1869 Paris Salon along with Manet's The Balcony, another work that lacked a simple genre affiliation, and in which at least one of the figures seems to confront the viewer as if challenging the "fourth wall". Both pieces were found wanting by art critics of the day; by this time a common criticism of Manet was that his goal was to "attract attention at any price".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_in_the_Studio

Luncheon in the Studio
1868
Oil on canvas 
118.3 x 154 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/y7GEQB0GPV/edouard-manet/le-dejeuner
https://www.pinakothek.de/en/exhibition/from-goya-to-manet