Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Washington Post and the author of "The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals and Breakthroughs in Modern Art." He worked at the ...

These two facets of Morisot’s identity receive illuminating treatment in Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism,” which examines her relationship with ...