Impressionism

At the sight of this astounding landscape the good man thought his spectacles were dirty . . . .'Good God' he said' 'what on earth is that!'

Leroy titled the article 'The Exhibition of the Impressionists”

Within a year the phrase spread to America where Henry James used it instead of the word 'perjorative'

Virtually all the group hated the phrase 'impressionism'.

Eugene Chevreul

Goblien Tapestry

Thomas Cook

Railways

Gainsborough, The Morning Walk

Death of Socrates, David 1834

The Air Pump John Wright 1834

Peasants, Corot

Steam, Water , Vapour - Turner

Stonehenge John Constable

'The Mill' John Constable

Guillaumin

Sunrise, Monet

Sunrise, Monet

Sunrise, Monet

Sunrise, Monet

Paris by Night, Pissarro

Le Dejunere Sur l'Herbe', Manet

La Moulin de la Gallette, Renoir

The First Impressionists

MonetCamille PissarroDegasRenoirManet,Alfred SilseyBerthe MorisotCezanneJames WhistlerArmand GuillauminFelix BracquemondFrederic Brazille

Post Impressionists

Van GoghSignac

Bonnard

The later group

Mary Cassatt

Eugene BoudinJohan Barthold JongkindTheodore RousseauEva GonzalesGustave Caillebotte

Suret

Brazille's Studio

Cezanne's Studio

'A Rainy Day in Paris' 1877, Gustave Caillebotte

The End – for the moment