Published to accompany the exhibition New Paris: From Monet to Morisot at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag (until June 9), this beautifully illustrated book on the depiction of the French capital by artists such as Paul Cézanne, Gustave Caillebotte, Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas explores in detail how they captured the city in the midst of a radical transformation. Their artworks transport us back to its birth as a modern metropolis, granting us entry to the theatres, parks and boulevards of urban planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s Paris, where the bourgeoisie parade their new-found wealth. But behind the facade of light, beauty and romance, political unrest and revolution are in the air, a turbulent period which is brought to life here through original photographs, posters, letters and satirical prints.