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.




CONTENTS


AUTHOR'S NOTE

I. THE PRECURSORS OF IMPRESSIONISM--THE
BEGINNING OF THIS MOVEMENT, THE
ORIGIN OF ITS NAME

II. THE THEORY OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS--THE
DIVISION OF TONES, COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS,
THE STUDY OF ATMOSPHERE--THE IDEAS OF THE
IMPRESSIONISTS ON SUBJECT-PICTURES, ON
THE BEAUTY OF CHARACTER, ON MODERNITY,
AND ON STYLE

III. EDOUARD MANET: HIS WORK, HIS INFLUENCE