Manet and the French impressionists : Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin
This 1910 London and Philadelphia art book by Théodore Duret, translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch, surveys French impressionist painters including Manet, Pissarro, Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne and Guillaumin for art readers. The plates reproduce paintings in halftone, shown here rotated sideways on the page, with captions naming each work; they show a riverbank with trees, a figure in a white suit beside a boat, a dark-dressed woman seated outdoors, and a park scene with figures among flowers. Their loose, dabbed brushwork and tonal blacks and greys suggest painterly tonal study for designers working on atmospheric figure-and-landscape compositions.
