Renoir's La Loge, depicting an elegant couple on display in a box at the theatre, epitomizes the Impressionists' interest in the spectacle of modern life. This book unites La Loge with Renoir's other treatments of the subject and with loge paintings by contemporaries, including Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. Ernst Vegelin van blaerbergen is head of the Courtauld Gallery and Barnaby Wright is acting curator of paintings at the Courtauld Gallery.
