marked it out as an object from high culture, appealing to an enlightened elite. Figure 51 In a sense this paradoxical combination sums up the early history of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Untitled drawing, 1883. Impressionism—an utter rejection of the idealist world of academic art, coupled Medium, size, and present whereabouts with an appeal to a new elite that placed the highest value on the virtuoso trans- unknown. Published in La We rnodeme (29 formation of the individual's visual sensations into fine art. December 1883), p. 835. 79