Translator’s Preface

Clemenceau and Monet at Giverny by unknown photographer; public domain. Original photograph from the collection of MATSUKATA Kōjirō and his niece KUROKI Takeko; digital version from Wikimedia Commons.

Portrait of Clemenceau published by Bain Media Service. Original negative in the Library of Congress; public domain. Cropped digital version from Wikimedia Commons.

Clemenceau at the front courtesy of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2. Claude Monet, Painter

Water Lilies (Setting Sun), painting by Claude Monet; public domain. Digital photograph from Google Art Project via Wikimedia Commons.

Camille Monet on Her Deathbed, painting by Claude Monet; public domain. Digital photograph from Wikimedia Commons.

Portrait of Claude Monet, painting by Gilbert de Séverac; public domain. Digital photograph from artmight.com.

Claude Monet at Work, painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir; public domain. Digital photograph from Google Art Project via Wikimedia Commons.

Self-portrait with beret, painting by Claude Monet; public domain. Digital photograph from WikiArt.

Self-portrait, painting by Claude Monet; public domain. Digital photograph from WikiArt.

3. The World, the Self, and the Light

Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, painting by Raphael; public domain. Digital photograph from C2RMF via Wikimedia Commons.

Portrait of Isabella d’Este, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci; public domain. Digital photograph from Wikimedia Commons.

Young Woman with a Mandolin by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; public domain. Digital photograph from Wikimedia Commons.

5. The Public

Vétheuil in the Mist, painting by Claude Monet; public domain. Digital photograph from Wikimedia Commons.

6. Mortal Combat

Burial at Ornans, painting by Gustave Courbet; public domain. Digital photograph from Google Art Project via Wikimedia Commons.

Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera, painting by Antoine Watteau; public domain. Digital photograph from C2RMF via Wikimedia Commons.

7. The Cathédrales Revolution

Stacks of Wheat, paintings by Claude Monet; public domain. Digital photographs from Wikimedia Commons (White Frost, Sunrise; Late Summer; End of Summer).

Rouen Cathedral, paintings by Claude Monet; public domain. Digital photographs from Wikimedia Commons (Facade, Sunset; Facade; The Portal, Sunlight).

8. The Nymphéas of the Water Garden

Water-Lilies, paintings by Claude Monet; public domain. Digital photographs from Wikimedia Commons (1920–1926; 1917–1919; 1916; Setting Sun as per above).

“At the Louvre”

Apollo of Piombino, ancient Greek bronze sculpture; public domain. Black & white photograph public domain; from The rendering of nature in early Greek art (1907) via Wikimedia Commons.

Color photograph, “Apollon de Piombino,” from Wikimedia Commons; by Siren-Com, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.