Tour: Impressionism

Overview | Start Tour
1	2	3
4	5	6

»	next
«	back to French Painting of the 19th century

Overview

In April 1874 a group of artists, calling themselves “Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs”—roughly “Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, Inc.”—opened an exhibition independent of the official Salon. Conspicuously absent was Edouard Manet, recognized leader of the avant-garde. Manet never participated in any of their eight exhibitions, but his bold style and modern subjects inspired these younger artists, who came to be known as “impressionists.”

(continue)

Captions

1.
1	Edouard Manet, The Railway, 1873
2	Edouard Manet, Plum Brandy, c. 1877
3	Auguste Renoir, Pont Neuf, Paris, 1872
4	Claude Monet, The Cradle - Camille with the Artist's Son Jean, 1867
5	Claude Monet, The Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874
6	Auguste Renoir, Oarsmen at Chatou, 1879
2.
7	Claude Monet, The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, 1880