Monet and the Impressionists

This book aims to recreate the artistic milieu of Monet and show his rapport with the unconventional non-academic currents of French art - including the preceding generation of landscapists of the Fontainebleau School and the succeeding generation including Paul Gauguin.

Towards the end of his life, Monet would proudly show visitors to his house at Giverny his collection of paintings by contemporaries such as Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Czanne, Corot. It is good to be surrounded by one's friends. Monet told journalists.