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Painting by Eugene Boudin showing people in 19th-century dress gathered near bathing huts on a sandy beach, with a cloudy sky and the sea in the background. Johan Barthold Jongkind: The Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris Théodore Rousseau: Under the Birches, Evening Painting by Jean-Francois Millet showing a man and woman bowing their heads in prayer in a field at dusk, with farm tools and a wheelbarrow nearby. Édouard Manet: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) Oil painting A Burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet shows a large group of mourners, clergy, and a dog gathered outdoors at a gravesite, with cliffs in the background. Impressionism: A Timeline
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, oil on canvas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876; in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Impressionism

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Also known as: Impressionnisme
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Impressionism, a broad term used to describe the work produced in the late 19th century, especially between about 1867 and 1886, by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The founding Impressionist artists included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot. Other significant Impressionists, including Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat, joined the group later. Although these artists had stylistic...

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