The French Impressionists (1860-1900)

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The French Impressionists (1860-1900), by Camille Mauclair, Translated by P. G. Konady
BY
AUTHOR OF L'ART EN SILENCE , LES MÈRES SOCIALES , ETC.
LONDON: DUCKWORTH & CO. NEW YORK: E.P. DUTTON & CO.
1903
TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.
RENOIR AT THE PIANO
TO THE ARTIST AND TO THE FRIEND
AS A MARK OF GRATEFUL AFFECTION
C.M.
It should be stated here that, with the exception of one reproduction after the Neo-Impressionist Van Rysselberghe, the other forty-nine engravings illustrating this volume I owe to the courtesy of M. Durand-Ruel, from the first the friend of the Impressionist painters, and later the most important collector of their works, a friend who has been good enough to place at our disposal the photographs from which our illustrations have been reproduced. Chosen from a considerable collection which has been formed for thirty years past, these photographs, none of which are for sale, form a veritable and unique museum of documents on Impressionist art, which is made even more valuable through the dispersal of the principal masterpieces of this art among the private collections of Europe and America. We render our thanks to M. Durand-Ruel no less in the name of the public interested in art, than in our own.
The illustrations contained in this volume have been taken from different epochs of the Impressionist movement. They will give but a feeble idea of the extreme abundance of its production.