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Boime, Albert. The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century. London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1971.

Clark, T. J. The Absolute Bourgeois. Artists and Politics in France 1848-1851. London: Thames &Hudson Ltd, 1973. Social and political background and build-up to the movement.

Clark, T. J. The Painting of Modern Life, Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers. London: Thames &Hudson Ltd, 1985. Interesting social commentary, excellent plates and discussion of the impressionists.

Denvir, Bernard. The Impressionists at First Hand. London: Thames &Hudson, 1987.

Denvir, Bernard. The Thames &Hudson Encyclopedia of Impressionism. London: Thames &Hudson, 1990.

Eisenman, Stephen F., ed. Nineteenth Century Art. A Critical History. London: Thames &Hudson Ltd, 1994.

Eitner, L. An Outline of 19th Century European Painting: From David through Cézanne. New York and London: Harper and Row, 1987.

Gaunt, William. The Impressionists. London: Thames &Hudson Ltd, 1970.

Herbert, R. Impressionism, Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Honour, Hugh, and Fleming, John, eds. A World History of Art. London: Laurence King Publishing, 4th ed., 1995. Very good section on Impressionism and Impressionists.

Melot, Michael. The Impressionist Print. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Analysis of prints by the Impressionists.

Nochlin, Linda. The Politics of Vision: Essays on 19th Century Art and Society. London: Thames &Hudson Ltd, 1991.

Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. London: Thames &Hudson Ltd, 1967.

Rewald, J. The History of Impressionism. London: Secker &Warburg, 4th ed., 1973. Classic, much-cited text.

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Bailey, Colin B., et al. Renoir Portraits: Impressions of an Age. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Daulte, François. Auguste Renoir. London: Cassell, 1988.

Distel, Anne. Renoir: A Sensuous Vision. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1995.

Gaunt, William. Renoir. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1994.

Pach, Walter. Renoir. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1984.

Vollard, Ambroise. Renoir: An Intimate Record. London: Constable &Co. Ltd., 1990. Translated by Harlold L. Van Doren and Randolph T. Weaver.

Wadley, Nicholas, ed. Renoir: A Retrospective. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1987.

Wheldon, Keith. Renoir and his Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975.

White, Barbara Erlich. Renoir. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1984.