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This painting is the 19th c. equivalent of those perfect Instagram photos that make you feel bad about how you leisure. Doesn't your backyard have poultry standing about picturesquely? #NoWhiteAfterLaborDay

Édouard Manet, Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, 1874 @metmuseum.org

A woman in a fancy hat and white(!) attire sits on grass without worrying about stains while a child rest on her; a man picks red flowers; two chickens stand about bucolically. So pretty, so improbably clean, so green.