The Impressionists - William Gaunt

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
Czanne
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