Birth of Impressionism : masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay
Subtitle: masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay
Publisher: Delmonico Books/Prestel
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [San Francisco] : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Munich; New York
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9783791350455
Table of contents: title: Preface / Nicolas Sarkozy -- Foreword / John E. Buchanan, Jr. and Guy Cogeval -- The Musee D'Orsay: a short history / Guy Cogeval and Alice Thomine-Berrada -- Introduction / Stephane Guegan and Alice Thomine-Berrada -- Diversity and discontent in nineteenth-century French painting / Eric Zafran -- The salon : ancients and moderns / Dominique Lobstein -- Realism : The legacies of Millet and Courbet / Dominique Lobstein -- The terrible year / Alice Thomine-Berrada -- Manet on view / Stephane Guegan -- Manet: between tradition and innovation / Alice Thomine-Berrada -- Impressionism and the new painting / Charles S. Moffett -- The Ecole Des Batignolles / Alice Thomine-Berrada -- Classic impressionists : Monet, Renoir, and Sisley / Lynn Federle Orr -- Pissarro and Cezanne: an early modern friendship / Krista Brugnara -- Degas : a snapshot of modern life / Maria Lopez Fernandez -- "secret affinities" : the new painting and rationalist architecture in nineteenth-Century Paris / Alice Thomine-Berrada -- Suggested further reading  -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Index of names and artworks.