"This illustrated volume features a broad selection of the Metropolitan Museum's greatest European paintings dating from 1800 to 1920. Pictures by sixty-seven artists from nine different countries are included, but the focus is on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist French painting, of which the Museum possesses the most comprehensive collection outside of France." "The book concludes with full documentation of the 193 featured paintings: each is illustrated for a second time, in black and white, and provided with a full provenance and exhibition history and a selected bibliography."--book jacket.