The author of the book is the famous writer Henri Perruchot, a researcher of the work of French impressionist artists such as Paul Cezanne, Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges-Pierre Seurat. The hero of this book is the founder of impressionism and one of the most outstanding painters of France is Édouard Manet. The biographies-novels of A. Perruchot are always reliable and documented, but this does not prevent them from being lively and exciting, vividly recreating the appearance of the artists and the era in which they lived and worked. The publication presents the most famous paintings by Edouard Manet, as well as paintings by other artists.