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Impressionist Paintings In the Louvre
By Germain Bazin, Conservateur-en-Chef of the Louvre

Hard Cover, with jacket, Thamas & Hudson, Copyright 1958, 5th Impression
revised Ed. 1964
with 101 colour plates and
256 black and white illustrations
Jacket is worn, name written inside cover

Impressionism is so much a French movement that it should be no surprise
that the galleries of the Louvre at the Jeu de Paume contain such a
superb collection of this
school. The surprise comes when we see that the walls of the galleries
are rich with the sunlight of the Impressionist world, the gaiety of
picnics by the river, of
cornfields and the glistening cobbles of city streets. To enter the
galleries is to go from light into light, luminous, vibrating with an
eternal summer.

M. Bazin has selected the finest of the treasures for our delight, to
inspire us to make a visit, to give us a key to this sunlit art. His
text, as is only to be expected from the
distinguished Conservateur-en-Chef of the Louvre, is lucid, free from
art-jargon and remarkably informative. A superb introduction to the Jeu
de Paume and to
Impressinnism itcelf_

About the Author
Before Germain Bazin became Conservateur-en-Chef of the Louvre in 1950
he taught at the University of Brussels in 1934, having graduated as a
Doctor of Letters. He
was appointed Curator of the Department of Paintings, Drawings and
Chalcography at the Louvre in 1937 and in 1941 was Professor of
theoretical and practical
museology in the Ecole du Louvre.
Above all M. Bazin is a meticulous scholar who succeeds in presenting
his always original thought with a clarity and liveliness of expression
which makes him one of
the leading art historians of his generation. His publications include:
The Loom o f Art, A Concise History o f Art, The Louvre and A Gallery o
f Flowers all of which are published by
Thames and Hudson.

CONTENTS
FOREWORD
THE BIRTH OF IMPRESSIONISM
POVERTY AND GENIUS
ON THE THRESHOLD OF IMMORTALITY
APOTHEOSIS
THE PLATES
THE PICTURES IN MONOCHROME
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INDEX OF NAMES