To our eyes Renoir's La Promenade is simply an engaging and approachable Impressionist painting as a man and woman take a walk in the woods. Indeed little has been written about this painting yet a close study of it reveals surprising details about the artistic historical and moral contexts in which it was created as well as about the artist himself. "What did it mean to paint a picture like La Promenade in France in 1870 in the final months of Napoleon III's Second Empire?" asks art historian John House in this monograph illustrated with 21 color plates 31 black and white figures and a color foldout. House argues that the work was a thorough rejection of the idealist world of academic art and a challenge to social and moral norms.''Pierre Auguste Renoir: La Promenade''John House'nin Renoir'in La Promenade eserini yorumladığı ve döneminde bu akımdan ortaya çıkan eserlerin ne anlama geldiğini incelediği görsel açıdan mükemmel bir kitap.