This book is the first to explore the life and extensive work of an outstanding artist who was not only a master of portrait and landscape painting but also a highly talented graphic artist.

Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907) is probably one of the greatest Romanian painters but he has yet to gain full recognition in Western Europe. Art lovers will, however, discover in this painter one of the most versatile artists of the 19th century； his work is extraordinary.

This book is the first to explore the life and extensive work of an outstanding artist who was not only a master of portrait and landscape painting but also a highly talented graphic artist.

1. The Years of Apprenticeship

2. In the Forest of Fontainebleau

3. The Sincerity of a Free Spirit- the Portrait

4. The Pilgrimage of the "Provisional trinity"

5. The Stay in Brittany

6. Grigorescu - the War Artist

7. Grigorescu’s Drawings

8. The Peasant Women

9. Other characters of the Romanian Village

10. The Landscape and the Nude

Chronology and Notes