This account of French Impressionism includes analyses of major works by Monet, Renoir, Pissaro, Sisley, Cezanne, Degas and van Gogh, and by Post-Impressionists such as Seurat and Signac. The author also includes painters he feels have been underrated, such as Bazille, Caillebotte and Morisot. The appendix features an illustrated directory of Impressionism.