An intriguing portrait of an early Impressionist masterwork, tracing the painting's history and reception from its creation up to the present day In April 1874, thirty artists--among them Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paul C?zanne, and Edgar Degas--participated in an extraordinary exhibition held at the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar. A particularly scathing review of the show in the newspaper Le Charivari...