tailieunhanh - The French Impressionists (1860-1900)

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. Banished from the salons, exhibited in private galleries and sold direct to art lovers, the Impressionist works have been but little seen. The series left by Caillebotte to the Luxembourg Gallery is very badly shown and is composed of interesting works which, however, date back to the early period, and are very inferior to the beautiful productions which followed later. Renoir is best represented. The private galleries in Paris, where the best Impressionist works are to. | The French Impressionists 1860-1900 1 The French Impressionists 1860-1900 The Project Gutenberg eBook The French Impressionists 1860-1900 by Camille Mauclair Translated by P. G. Konady This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The French Impressionists 1860-1900 Author Camille Mauclair Release Date November 15 2004 eBook 14056 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS 1860-1900 E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland Linda Cantoni and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the lovely original illustrations. See or http dirs 1 4 0 5 14056 14056-h or The French Impressionists 1860-1900 2 http dirsZ1Z4 0Z5 14056 THE FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS 1860-1900 by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Author of L art en Silence Les Mères Sociales etc. Translated from the French text of Camille Mauclair by P. G. Konody London Duckworth Co. New York E. P. Dutton Co. Turnbull and Spears Printers Edinburgh 1903 Illustration RENOIR AT THE PIANO To AUGUSTE BRÉAL TO THE ARTIST AND TO THE FRIEND AS A MARK OF GRATEFUL AFFECTION . AUTHOR S NOTE 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 .