\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This group portrait represents some of the masters of Impressionism, to whom Fantin-Latour was linked by ties of friendship
and esteem. Manet is seated in front of the easel, and the man in the black hat is Renoir. On the far right we see Monet and alongside him, in profile, the figure of Bazille. Although the telling representation of the faces and the informal setting sh
ows that the artist shared some of the ideas of the Impressionists, the technique of painting he has used appears far more traditional.
