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 74
The interest of the pictureclearly lay in the value of the painting itself and the peculiaritiesof the technique ; but these are points to which the public is neverattentive,—certainly the public who looked at Manets picturesignored them altogether. It never occurred to any one to ask how it came… … UNE JEUNE FILLE MANET FROM 1868 TO 1871 47 angularity of composition and technique, this brilliance of light,which gave his pictures a place apart, were a precise proof that theirtists work was characterised by those exceptional qualitieswhich only real masters possess. But the public felt the…
