Impressionism in France
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895, French)
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| The Port at Lorient - Berthe Morisot - oil on canvas (43 x 72 cm) 1869 - National Gallery of Art (Washington) |
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| The Cradle - Berthe Morisot - oil on canvas (56 × 46 cm) 1872 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
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| Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets - Édouard Manet - oil on canvas (56 × 41 cm) 1872 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
Edgar Degas (1834–1917, French)
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| Four Dancers - Edgar Degas - oil on canvas (151 x 180 cm) c.1899 - National Gallery of Art (Washington) |
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| Degas frequented the ballet performances at the new Paris Opera House. |
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| Before the Race - Edgar Degas - oil on panel (26 × 35 cm) 1882-84 - The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore) |
Degas had done more than 300 paintings on racing horses. Watching ballet and derbies was upper-class pastimes.
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| Woman Combing her Hair / La Toilette - Edgar Degas - pastell (52 × 51 cm) c.1885 - State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg) |
Unfortunately, he was blind and lived alone in the last twenty years of his life.
Impressionism – The influence of Photography
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| In the late 1880s, Degas also developed a passion for photograph |
Claude Monet (1840–1926, French)
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| Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son - Claude Monet - oil on canvas (100 × 81 cm) 1875 - National Gallery of Art (Washington) |
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| Rouen Cathedral, Full Sunlight - Claude Monet - oil on canvas (107 × 73 cm) 1894 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
The Rouen Cathedral series captured the façade of the Rouen Cathedral at different times of the day and year and reflecting changes in its appearance under different lighting conditions.
The series, more than 30 in all, were made in 1892 and 1893 in Rouen, Normandy; Monet rented spaces across the street from the cathedral as his temporary studio. The paintings were then reworked in Monet’s studio in 1894.
In 1895 he selected what he considered to be the 20 best paintings from the series for display at his Paris dealer’s gallery and sold 8 of them before the exhibition was over.
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| Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge - Claude Monet - oil on canvas (90 x 90 cm) 1897/99 - Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton) |
“Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge represents two of Monet’s greatest achievements: his gardens at Giverny and the paintings they inspired.
“In 1883 Monet moved to the country-town Giverny, near Paris but just across the border of Normandy.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919, French)
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| Luncheon of the Boating Party - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - oil on canvas (130 × 173 cm) 1881 - The Phillips Collection (Washington) |
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| La Grenouillère - Renoir, 1869 |
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| A Girl with a Watering Can - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - oil on canvas (100 × 73 cm) 1876 - National Gallery of Art (Washington) |
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| Bather Arranging Her Hair - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - oil on canvas (92 x 74 cm) 1893 - National Gallery of Art (Washington) |
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| Mother Anthony's Tavern - Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) - oil on canvas (194 x 131 cm) 1866 - Musee National (Stockholm) |
In the Inn of Mother Anthony: Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Charles Le Coeur around the table with Mere Antony
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Camille Pissarro (1830–1903, Danish-French)
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| Orchard in Bloom, Louveciennes - Camille Pissarro - oil on canvas (45 x 55 cm) 1872 - National Gallery of Art (Washington) |
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| Peasant Girl with a Straw Hat - Camille Pissarro - oil on canvas (73 x 60 cm) 1881 - National Gallery of Art (Washington) |
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899, French-British)
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| Women Going to the Woods - Sisley - oil on canvas (65 x 92 cm) 1866 - Artizon Museum (Tokyo) |
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| Square in Argenteuil - Alfred Sisley - oil on canvas (46 x 66 cm) 1872 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
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| The Meadow - Alfred Sisley - oil on canvas (55 x 73 cm) 1875 - National Gallery of Art (Washington) |
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| Flood in Port-Marly - Alfred Sisley - oil on canvas (60 x 81 cm) 1876 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
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| Resting by a Stream at the Edge of the Wood - Alfred Sisley - oil on canvas (74 × 81 cm) 1878 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
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| The Bridge at Moret - Alfred Sisley - oil on canvas (116 x 97 cm) 1893 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
Jean Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870, French)
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| The Family Reunion - Bazille - oil on canvas (152 × 230 cm) 1867-68 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
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| Bazille's Studio - Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870, French) - oil on canvas (98 × 129 cm) 1870 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
“The Artist’s Studio (Bazille's Room)” is considered Bazille's masterpiece, in which we can find important figures of the impressionist art: (L-R) Renoir, Edmond Maître, Monet, Manet, Bazille, and Emile Zola.
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| Frédéric Bazille at his Easel - Auguste Renoir - oil on canvas (105 × 74 cm) 1867 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
(French: [ɡystav kɑjbɔt]; 1848–1894, French)
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| Les raboteurs de parquet - Caillebotte - oil on canvas (102 x 147 cm) 1875 - Musée d'Orsay (Paris) |
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| Paris Street; Rainy Day - Caillebotte - oil on canvas (212 × 276 cm) 1877 - Art Institute (Chicago) |
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| The Piano Lesson - Gustave Caillebotte - oil on canvas (81 x 65 cm) 1881 - Musée Marmottan Monet (Paris) |
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