Visual+Arts+-+Classical+Art+-+The+Grasshopper

===The Grasshopper was first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1872. This is one of Jules Joseph Lefebvre's classic nude female paintings. The painting was presented as an allegorical illustration of a famous fable by Jean De La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) called 'The Ant and the Grasshopper'. In her tale, the grasshopper spends all summer singing, playing and making fun of the industrious ant who prepares his house for the winter. When the first winds of winter comes the grasshopper is caught unaware and homeless. The grasshopper was painted three years before the artists famous Chloé (Young Jacksons Hotel, Melbourne).===



__**What I Think Of This Painting:**__
===I like this painting because the girl in this painting looks cheeky and mischievous, like she has done something wrong. There is a lot of detail in this painting and you can't even see the brush strokes in it because he has made it so smooth.===

__**Bibliography:**__

National Gallery of Victoria
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