Oh, hi there! Welcome back to your Friday Afternoon Challenge: Scene Stealers!

[CTyankee]

39. You are correct. Good for you!

"everyone" who was anyone(in his artistic circle) was in this painting. It is certainly a large gathering but since it's alternative title is "Concert in the Tuileries Garden" I can understand why there are so many people in it and I don't find that at all unreal or oppressive. They are just outdoors and not in a concert hall...

Picasso (it is said) visited the Louvre every day back when he was a new talent in Paris. He slavishly copied Delacroix, painting 100 versions (cubistically of course) of "Women of Algiers." He also painted his version of Manet's "Dejeuner sur L'herbe." I think that was the one I used in a Challenge to which you refer. I never did "Concert" before...

So glad you visit my challenges, tho! I'm glad you like them, and I'm impressed that you did so much research on artists' influence on later artists. Seems it is quite common for artists to do this, all throughout art history. The discovery of those copies is a lot of fun...