Leaders of the Impressionism Movement
Édouard Manet
(1832-1883)
Manet was a famous French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern and postmodern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Paul Cézanne
(1839-1906)
Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition creating a form of bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism.
Camille Pissarro
(1830-1903)
Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist. He is known to be the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions. Today he is considered a "father figure" not only to the Impressionists but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.
Alfred Sisley
(1839-1899)
Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter that was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air.
Jean Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870)
Bazille was a French Impressionist painter. His major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape.
*** is a work of fine art in any of the painting media with the primary subject being the human figure
*** is a work of fine art in any of the painting media with the primary subject being the human figure
Gustave Caillebotte
(1848-1894)
Caillebotte was a French painter who was noted for his early interest in photography as an art form.
Berthe Morisot
(1841-1895)
Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.Her work was selected for exhibition in six Salons until, in 1874, she joined the "rejected" Impressionists.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(1841-1919)
Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(1864-1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator. He is considered among the most well-known painters of the time.
Claude Monet
(1840-1926)
Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting. He is known to be the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise
Edgar Degas
(1834-1917)
Degas was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is known to be identified with the subject of dance, which is depicted in more than half of his works. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist.
Mary Cassatt
(1844-1926)
Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first became friends with Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.