MELBOURNE.- Calling all Monet fans: you need to hurry on down to the NGV’s European Masters exhibition before 9pm Wednesday 1 September! Claude Monet’s fascinating work The Luncheon is making a planned early departure from the National Gallery of Victoria’s European Masters exhibition to be a part of a Monet retrospective at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris. Painted in 1868, The Luncheon was submitted to the Salon in Paris in 1870. However the painting was rejected as it was deemed too radical in its presentation of a simple domestic scene. The painting shows a homely interior with the table set for lunch, the empty chair in the foreground awaiting the arrival of Monet himself. The woman opposite is Monet’s future wife Camille with their son Jean. A female visitor leans against the window and a maid is opening a cupboard while toys are strewn