Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin (1910)
Duret, Théodore, 1838-1927, Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford), tr · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 206
ing with their own temperament. He painted especiallyrivers with their transparent waters and leafy banks, the countrygay with spring flowers or bathed in summer sunshine. His work,moreover, is very various ; it embraces views of towns and villages,and again snow effects, in which he showed great… … SISLEY 153 generally condemned. He was accused of painting in an artificiallilac-coloured tone. Nowadays everybody is accustomed to seelandscape painters employing the boldest tones in their renderingof effects of light; Sisleys colour scheme, therefore, seems abso-lutely calm and perfectly…
