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Also Known As Impressionnisme
Date c. 1867 - c. 1886
Related Artists Edgar Degas • Paul Cézanne • Claude Monet • Honoré Daumier • Camille Pissarro • Édouard Manet • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov • Mary Cassatt • Emmanuel Chabrier • Gustave Caillebotte • Walter Richard Sickert • Max Liebermann • Lilla Cabot Perry • Lovis Corinth • William J. Glackens • Berthe Morisot • John Henry Twachtman • Charles Griffes • Homer Dodge Martin • Medardo Rosso • Armand Guillaumin • Alfred Sisley • Charles Martin Loeffler • Tom Roberts • Childe Hassam • Frédéric Bazille • Anders Zorn

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
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.
A visitor stands in front of Claude Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise, displayed in an ornate gold frame on a gallery wall at the MuMa museum in Le Havre, France.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
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The thumbnail image shows a smiling woman in a beret in front of two Impressionist paintings.
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Paris Street; Rainy Day and a vision of the modern city
Painting by Edgar Degas, "The Ballet Class," features ballerinas in rehearsal.
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