The Sonnet is a 1907 oil-on-canvas painting by Australian artist George Washington Lambert.

The work depicts man reading a sonnet to a female companion with both seemingly unaware of a nude woman sitting between them.

[1] The open-air idyll draws on other well-known works such as Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe 1863.

[1] One day when I saw these three people together … it seemed to me a modernized version of Giorgione's [possibly Titian’s] Fete ChampetreThe painting won a silver medal at the Exposicion Internacional de Arte in Barcelona in 1911.

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