CONTENTS Introduction i The Salon and the Art Trade: Genre Painting and the Value of Art 5 Reading Genre Paintings 25 The Setting of La Promenade 35 The Figure Subject in La Promenade 51 The Technique of La Promenade 61 Renoir's Position in 1870 69 The Place of La Promenade in Renoir's Career 72 Notes 80 Acknowledgments 88 Final page folds out, providing a reference color plate of La Promenade