Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin (1910)
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th of which wereaccepted—Le Portrait de Mme. JV. S. and Une Soiree dete, Renoir was not represented in the Salons of 1866 and 1867—probably he sent pictures which were rejected. To the Salon of1868 he sent a picture which was accepted—Lise, the portraitof a girl, full length and of life size, in a… … 13AIGNEUSE RENOIR RENOIR 161 foliage of the trees play upon the figure of the girl, upon theground round about her, and upon the trunk of a tree behind.The essentials of open-air painting are here firmly established,but at the same time certain features are revealed which aretraceable to Courbet,…
