Chapter II: Preface: vii

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi

LIST OF PORTRAITS xv

CHAP.

I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE IMPRESSIONISTIC IDEA 1

II. JONGKIND, BOUDIN, AND CÉZANNE 9

III. EDOUARD MANET (1832-1883) 17

IV. THE IMPRESSIONIST GROUP, 1870-1886 31

V. CLAUDE MONET 37

VI. PISSARRO, RENOIR, SISLEY 49

VII. SOME YOUNGER IMPRESSIONISTS: CARRIÈRE, POINTELIN, 57
MAUFRA

VIII. “REALISTS”: RAFFAËLLI, DEGAS, TOULOUSE-LAUTREC 65

IX. THE “WOMEN-PAINTERS”: BERTHE MORISOT, MARY 75
CASSATT, MARIE BRACQUEMOND, EVA GONZALÈS

X. “LA PEINTURE CLAIRE”: CLAUS, LE SIDANER, BESNARD, 79
DIDIER-POUGET

XI. AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISTS: WHISTLER, HARRISON, 89
HASSAM

XII. A GERMAN IMPRESSIONIST, MAX LIEBERMANN 95

XIII. INFLUENCES AND TENDENCIES 101