Timothy J. Clark - The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Excerpt from Marie Lloyd in Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1950 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; renewed 1978 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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Clark, T. J. (Timothy J.)

The painting of modern life.

Bibliography: p. 319

1. Impressionism (Art)FranceParis. 2. Painting, FrenchFranceParis. 3. Painting, Modern19th centuryFranceParis. 4. Paris (France) in art. 5. Manet, Edouard, 18321883Influence. I. Title.

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Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution

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Le Peintre de la vie moderne

COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Camille Pissarro, Coin de village, effet dhiver, 1877. Muse dOrsay (Jeu de Paume), Paris.

Camille Pissarro, Coin de village, effet dhiver (detail).

Camille Pissarro, Avenue de lOpra, soleil, matin dhiver, 1898. Muse de Saint-Denis, Reims.

Edouard Manet, LExposition Universelle de 1867, 1867. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo.

Edouard Manet, La Musique aux Tuileries, 1862. The National Gallery, London.

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863. Muse dOrsay (Jeu de Paume), Paris.

Edouard Manet, Olympia (detail).

Edouard Manet, Olympia (detail).

Edgar Degas, Les Femmes devant un caf, le soir, 1877. Pastel on monotype. Muse dOrsay (Jeu de Paume), Paris.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Vnus Anadyomne, 1848. Muse Cond, Chantilly. (Photo: Giraudon/Art Resource, Inc.)

Edouard Manet, Argenteuil, les canotiers, 1874. Muse des Beaux-Arts, Tournai. (Photo: Scala/Art Resource, Inc.)

Edouard Manet, Argenteuil, les canotiers (detail).

Georges Seurat, Une Baignade Asnires, 188384. The National Gallery, London.

Edouard Manet, Claude Monet et sa femme dans son bateau-atelier, 1874. Neue Pinakothek, Munich. (Photo: Scala/Art Resource, Inc.)

Claude Monet, Le Pont dArgenteuil, temps gris, c. 1874. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Claude Monet, Le Train dans la neige Argenteuil, 1875. Private collection. (Photo: Eric Pollitzer, New York)

Claude Monet, Le Pont du chemin de fer Argenteuil, 1873. Private collection.

Claude Monet, Les Dchargeurs de charbon, 1875. Durand-Ruel Collection, Paris.

Claude Monet, Les Dchargeurs de charbon (detail).

Claude Monet, Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil, 1875. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts. Gift of Richard Saltonstall.)

Claude Monet, Vue dArgenteuil, neige, 1875. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. (Gift of Laura Nelson Kirkwood Residuary Trust.)

Edgar Degas, Au Caf-concert, le chanson du chien, c. 187577. Private collection, U.S.A.

Edgar Degas, Les Musiciens lorchestre, 1872. Stdelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt.

Edouard Manet, Un Bar aux Folies-Bergre, 1882. Courtauld Institute Galleries, University of London (Courtauld Collection).

Edouard Manet, Un Bar aux Folies-Bergre (detail).

Edouard Manet, Un Bar aux Folies-Bergre, c. 1882. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. (On loan from private collection.)

Edgar Degas, Au caf, c. 187780. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. (Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum.)

Edgar Degas, Portrait de Michel-Lvy, c. 1873. Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.

Georges Seurat, Un Dimanche aprs-midi lle de La Grande Jatte, 188486. Art Institute of Chicago. (Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.)

Georges Seurat, Un Dimanche aprs-midi lle de La Grande Jatte (detail).

BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS

: Nadar, photograph of Manet, c. 1875.

Edouard Manet, Djeuner sur lherbe, 1863. Muse dOrsay (Jeu de Paume), Paris.

Claude Monet, Djeuner sur lherbe, 186566. Pushkin Museum, Moscow.

Paul Czanne, Le Viaduc lEstaque, c. 1882. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. (R. T. Miller, Jr., and Mrs. F. F. Prentiss Funds; 50.3)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Les Parapluies, 188186. The National Gallery, London.

Gustave Caillebotte, Rue de Paris, temps de pluie, 1877. Art Institute of Chicago. (Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Balanoire, 1876. Muse dOrsay (Jeu de Paume), Paris. ( S.P.A.D.E.M., Paris/V.A.G.A., New York.)

Paul Czanne, Une Scne au bord de la mer, 1877. Private collection. (Shown in the 1877 Impressionist exhibition; the title is that given by Georges Rivire in lImpressionniste the same year.)

Edouard Manet, Rue Mosnier Pavoise, 1877. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va.

Vincent van Gogh, The Outskirts of Paris, 1886. Private collection.

Luigi Loir, La Fin de lautomne, 1882. Present whereabouts unknown.

Jean-Franois Raffalli, La Butte des chiffonniers. From Les Types de Paris, 1889. Present whereabouts unknown. (Photo: The British Library, London.)

Vincent van Gogh, The Mowers, Arles in the Background, 1888. Muse Rodin, Paris.

A. P. Martial, Petite Pologne, destruction pour le boulevard Malesherbes, 1861. Etching. Bibliothque Nationale, Paris.

Hippolyte Flandrin, Napoleon III, c. 186061. Muse National du Chteau, Versailles.

Edouard Manet, Un Bal masqu lOpra, 1873. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer in memory of her mother-in-law, Louisine W. Havemeyer, 1982.)

Edouard Manet, Le Ballon, 1862. Lithograph. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. Purchase-Program for Harvard College, gift of Philip Hofer.)

Claude Monet, Le Boulevard des Capucines, 1873. Pushkin Museum, Moscow.

Claude Monet, Le Boulevard des Capucines, 1873. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. (Acquired through the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation Acquisitions Fund.)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Les Grands Boulevards, 1875. Private collection, Philadelphia.

Norbert Goeneutte, La Distribution de la soupe aux pauvres la porte du restaurant Brbant, 1880. Present whereabouts unknown.

Gustave Caillebotte, Le Pont de lEurope