James H. Rubin is Professor of Art History at Stony Brook University. He is the author of thirteen books, including Impressionism: Historical Overview and Bibliography; Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life; and Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology, and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh, as well as more than seventy articles and exhibition catalog essays on nineteenth-century French art.