M. Renoir's second manner is more directly related to the Impressionist methods: it is that of his landscapes, his flowers and his portraits. Here one can feel his relationship with Manet and with Claude Monet. These pictures are hatchings of colours accumulated to render less the objects than their transparency across the atmosphere. The portraits are frankly presented and broadly executed. The artist occupies himself in the first place with getting correct values and an exact suggestion of depth. He understands the illogicality of a false perfection which is as interested in a trinket as in an eye, and he knows how to proportion the interest of the picture which should guide the beholder's look to the essential point, though every part should be correctly executed. He knows how to interpret nature in a certain sense; how to stop in time; how to suggest by leaving a part apparently unfinished; how to indicate, behind a figure, the sea or some landscape with just a few broad touches which suffice to suggest it without usurping the principal part. It is now, that Renoir paints his greatest works, the _Déjeûner des Canotiers_, the _Bal au Moulin de la Galette_, the _Box_, the _Terrace_, the _First Step_, the _Sleeping Woman with a Cat_, and his most beautiful landscapes; but his nature is too capricious to be satisfied with a single technique. There are some landscapes that are reminiscent of Corot or of Anton Mauve; the _Woman with the broken neck_ is related to Manet; the portrait of _Sisley_ invents pointillism fifteen years before the pointillists; _La Pensée_, this masterpiece, evokes Hoppner. But in everything reappears the invincible French instinct: the _Jeune Fille au panier_ is a Greuze painted by an Impressionist; the delightful _Jeune Fille à la promenade_ is connected with Fragonard; the _Box_, a perfect marvel of elegance and knowledge, condenses the whole worldliness of 1875. The portrait of _Jeanne Samary_ is an evocation of the most beautiful portraits of the eighteenth century, a poem of white satin and golden hair. [Illustration: RENOIR YOUNG GIRL PROMENADING]