Rejected by the Salon jury of 1863, Manet seized the opportunity to exhibit "Déjeuner sur l'herbe" and two other paintings in the 1863 Salon des Refusés. "Déjeuner sur l'herbe" depicts the juxtaposition of a female nude and a scantily dressed female bather in the background, on a picnic with two fully dressed men in a rural setting. The painting sparked public notoriety and stirred up controversy and has remained controversial, even to this day. There is a discussion of it, from this point of view, in Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past".