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Impressionism

c. 1860 – 1890

Working outdoors and in modern Paris, the Impressionists tried to catch fleeting effects of light and atmosphere with quick, broken strokes of unmixed colour. Rejected by the official Salon, they held their own exhibitions from 1874. A critic mocked Monet's Impression, Sunrise and gave the group its name.

Hallmarks

Painting en plein air
Broken brushwork and unmixed colour
Modern life and leisure
Light and atmosphere as the true subject

Artists here

Édouard Manet · 1832 – 1883
Edgar Degas · 1834 – 1917
Claude Monet · 1840 – 1926
Berthe Morisot · 1841 – 1895
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1841 – 1919
Gustave Caillebotte · 1848 – 1894

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Works (21)

Women in the Garden
Claude Monet · 1866–67
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet · 1867
Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet · 1872
The Cradle
Berthe Morisot · 1872
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1871–74
The Railway
Édouard Manet · 1873
La Loge
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1874
L'Absinthe
Edgar Degas · 1875–76
Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son
Claude Monet · 1875
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
The Swing
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte · 1877
Nana
Édouard Manet · 1877
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1880–81
The Umbrellas
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · c. 1881–86
Two Sisters (On the Terrace)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1881
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Édouard Manet · 1882
The Large Bathers
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1884–87
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
John Singer Sargent · 1885–86
Young Girls at the Piano
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1892
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies
Claude Monet · 1899