The Impressionists

An extended and highly readable introduction covers the background to the movement, its heroic years, its followers and an account of the masters in their later years.

Full-page colour reproductions of over 100 paintings are faced by informative and intriguing descriptions: short biographies of thirty of the artists and a bibliography make this a highly useful reference work as well as a pleasure to browse.

Artists featured are: Bazille • Bonnard • Boudin • Cassatt • Cézanne • Constable • Corot • Courbet • Daubigny • Degas • Fantin-Latour • Gauguin • Jongkind • Manet • Millet • Monet • Morisot • Pissarro • Renoir • Rousseau • Sargent • Seurat • Sickert • Signac • Sisley • Steer • Toulouse-Lautrec • Van Gogh • Vuillard • Whistler