The Private Lives of the Impressionists

$19.99 at National Gallery of Art.

Written by Sue Roe Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Morisot, and Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, astonishing sums are now paid for the works of these artists, whose paintings are celebrated for their ability to capture the moment, not only in the fleeting lights of a landscape but in scenes of daily life. Their dazzling pictures are familiar?but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? The Private Lives of the…