Table of Contents:
  • Directors' Foreword
  • Renoir: Modern life, love and painting / Paul Perrin
  • Painting with love / Sylvie Patry
  • 'It is with my brush that I love': Renoir, Montmarte, and his female models, 1874-1886 / Chiara Di Stefano
  • Painting without ambiguity? Renoir and the nineteenth-century depiction of prostitution / Isolde Pludermacher
  • Renoir's Luncheon and the idea of intimacy / Martha Lucy
  • 'I saw the Queen': Renoir's nostalgia and its uses / Christopher Riopelle
  • Painting large as an impressionist: Renoir, exhibitions and the 'Grands Formats', 1863-1885 / Colin B. Bailey
  • Seriously joyful: Love and sociability according to Renoir's critics, c. 1865-1885 / Katie Hanson
  • Renoir: Love is love / Mary Morton
  • Chronology / Lucie Lachenal-Taballet.