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 86
ithout thereby becoming his pupils. They were themselves at that time still in their experimental period, and it was only later, when common tendencies had directed their development, that their work acquired a character distinctive enough to demand a special name. They were then called… … FROM 1868 TO 1871 53 There is no need to suppose that Manets friends were inthe habit of meeting together in his studio as they are depictedin Fantins picture. The gathering existed only on canvas,—itwas simply a pictorial device by means of which he was ableto bring them all together. It is true…