A comprehensive and very well written book. I read it in an old edition with many black and white plates. I hope an all colour edition is available by now. Rewald covers all the artists and the Parisian art scene – it was the first time I understood how the relationships of the painters and their place in 19th century France. It will be difficult to improve on.

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