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• La Jeune Peinture Française (in French; Paris, Société des Trente, 1912), by André Salmon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1982), by Pierre Rosenberg (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Fragonard (in French; Paris: Librairie de l'art, ca. 1890), by Félix Naquet
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings (3 volumes; Skira: Wildenstein Institute Publications, c2005), by Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts (page images with commentary at wpi.art)
• Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, 1985), by Charles S. Moffett (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Claudius Lavergne: Peintre d'Histoire et Peintre Verrier (in French; Paris: Bloud et cie, ca. 1910), by Georges Claudius Lavergne, contrib. by Claudius Lavergne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Origins of Impressionism (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Gary Tinterow and Henri Loyrette (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Anne Distel, Michel Hoog, and Charles S. Moffett (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• French Paintings and Pastels, 1600-1945: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (online edition, 2014-present), ed. by Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (illustrated HTML at nelson-atkins.org)

• L'Exposition de 1900 et l'Impressionnisme (in French; Paris: H. Floury, 1900), by André Mellerio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Painting as a Pastime (with paintings by the author; text based on edition published in 1932), by Winston Churchill (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Book of Art for Young People, by Agnes Ethel Conway and William Martin Conway (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Meaning of Pictures: Six Lectures Given for Columbia University at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1911), by John C. Van Dyke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On the Spiritual in Art (first complete English translation; New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1946), by Wassily Kandinsky, ed. by Hilla Rebay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art and Architecture (2 volumes; Philadelphia: G. Barrie, 1893), by William Walton (HTML and page images at iit.edu)
• Concerning the Spiritual in Art, by Wassily Kandinsky, trans. by Michael Sadleir (Gutenberg text)

• Art and Autoradiography: Insights into the Genesis of Paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and Vermeer (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1982), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Ancient And Modern Pictures and Water-Colour Drawings of the Well-Known Patron of Art, Joseph Gillott, Esq., Deceased (London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, 1872), by Christie, Manson & Woods (page images at HathiTrust)

• Protection of Works of Art From Atmospheric Ozone (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1989), by Glen Rowan Cass, James R. Druzik, Daniel Grosjean, W. W. Nazaroff, Paul M. Whitmore, and Cynthia L. Wittman (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Protection of Works of Art From Atmospheric Ozone (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1989), by Glen Rowan Cass, James R. Druzik, Daniel Grosjean, W. W. Nazaroff, Paul M. Whitmore, and Cynthia L. Wittman (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Encyclopedia of Painting: Painters and Painting of the World From Prehistoric Times to the Present Day (New York: Crown Publishers, 1955), ed. by Bernard S. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Materia Pictoria: An Encyclopaedia of Methods and Materials in Painting and the Graphic Arts, I: Oil Painting (only part known to be published; New York and Chicago: Pitman Publishing Corp., 1939), by Hesketh Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Practical Treatise on Painting in Oil-Colours (London: Printed for B. and J. White ..., 1795), by Thomas Bardwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies #8; c1970), trans. by Robert J. Maeda, contrib. by Han Zhuo and Deng Chun
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• A Treatise on Painting (London: E. Lumley, 1844), by Cennino Cennini, trans. by Mary P. Merrifield, contrib. by Giuseppe Tambroni (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1922), by Cennino Cennini, trans. by Christiana Jane Powell Herringham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Protection of Works of Art From Atmospheric Ozone (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1989), by Glen Rowan Cass, James R. Druzik, Daniel Grosjean, W. W. Nazaroff, Paul M. Whitmore, and Cynthia L. Wittman (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• The Picture Gallery of Charles I (London: Seeley and Co.; New York: Macmillan and Co. 1896), by Claude Phillips
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• Masterpieces of Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Greenwich, CT: Dist. by the New York Graphic Society, 1970), by Edith Appleton Standen and Thomas M. Folds, contrib. by Claus Virch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Twenty Contemporary Painters From the Philippe Dotremont Collection, Brussels (1959), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Paul Fierens and James Johnson Sweeney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art of Tomorrow: Fifth Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, Part of Which is Temporarily Exhibited at 24 East 54th Street, New York City, Opening June 1st, 1939 (c1939), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, contrib. by Hilla Rebay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings at Gill's Art Galleries, Springfield, Mass., 1892 (c1892), by James Dwyer Gill
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Van Gogh and Expressionism (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, c1964), by Maurice Tuchman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Text-Book of the History of Painting (with some added modern color images), by John C. Van Dyke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Pictures Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People, by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Monthly Illustrator (full serial archives)
• The Quarterly Illustrator (full serial archives)

• Twenty Contemporary Painters From the Philippe Dotremont Collection, Brussels (1959), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Paul Fierens and James Johnson Sweeney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Katalog der Gemälde-Gallerie Seiner Erlaucht des Grafen Schönborn-Buchheim in Wien (in German; Vienna: Published for the owners, 1894) (multiple formats at Google; US access only)

• The Painter in Oil, by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst (illustrated HTML with commentary at artrenewal.org)
• The Practice of Oil Painting and of Drawing As Associated With It, by Solomon J. Solomon
  • illustrated HTML at painting-technique.com
  • zipped illustrated HTML at aisthesthai.tk
• Tone Relations in Painting (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1922), by Arthur Pope (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1922), by Cennino Cennini, trans. by Christiana Jane Powell Herringham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Les Traditions Techniques de la Peinture Médiévale (in French; Brussels and Paris: G. van Oest et cie, 1914), by G. Loumyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Painter's Palette and How to Master It (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., c1913), by Bolton Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical Hints on Colour in Painting, Illustrated by Examples From the Works of the Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools (second edition), by John Burnet (zipped illustrated HTML at aisthesthai.tk)
• A Treatise on Painting (London: E. Lumley, 1844), by Cennino Cennini, trans. by Mary P. Merrifield, contrib. by Giuseppe Tambroni (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1924), by Paul Rosenfeld, illust. by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings at Gill's Art Galleries, Springfield, Mass., 1892 (c1892), by James Dwyer Gill
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)

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