Cassatt had befriended Degas and Pissarro years earlier when she joined Pissarro's newly formed French Impressionist group and gave up opportunities to exhibit in the United States.

These include Giuseppe De Nittis, an Italian artist living in Paris who participated in the first Impressionist exhibit at the invitation of Degas, although the other Impressionists disparaged his work.

The most popular of these in recent years were Renoir's Women — featuring more than 30 works by the Impressionist master — and an exhibit of Dale Chihuly's glass sculptures, in which the massive, chaotic forms were installed in the midst of the traditional painting galleries.

This exhibit featured the breadth of Perry ’ s artistic achievements up until this point including Impressionist portraits and landscapes.

Theo was instrumental in the popularity of Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas by persuading his employers, Goupil & Cie, to exhibit and buy their works.

In January 1913 he travelled to Buffalo, New York, where he found in an exhibit of Scandinavian Impressionist paintings an uninhibited approach to northern wilderness that could be adopted by Canadian painters.

Caillebotte did make his debut in the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876 showing eight paintings including Les raboteurs de parquet ( The Floor Scrapers ) ( 1875 ), his earliest masterpiece.

From 1873 to 1876 on the Academy's allowance, Repin sojourned in Italy and lived in Paris, where he was exposed to French Impressionist painting, which had a lasting effect upon his use of light and colour.

Pierre Adolphe Valette ( 1876 – 1942 ) was a French Impressionist painter.

His Impressionist contemporaries, however, continued to view his independence as a “ mark of integrity ”, and they turned to him for advice, referring to him as “ Père Pissarro ” ( father Pissarro ).

When Europeans saw them, however, they became a major source of inspiration for Impressionist, Cubist, and Post-Impressionist artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others.

The challenge for the urban Impressionist, however, was that activity moved very quickly, and therefore, getting down a complete impression in oil was next to impossible.

Both films were released before the epoch-making Un Chien Andalou ( 1929 ) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, and La Coquille et le Clergyman is sometimes credited as the first Surrealist film ; however, some scholars, such as Ephraim Katz, consider Dulac first and foremost an Impressionist filmmaker.

Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

During the period Pissarro exhibited his works, art critic Armand Silvestre had called Pissarro the " most real and most naive member " of the Impressionist group.

The American impressionist Mary Cassatt, who at one point lived in Paris to study art, and joined his Impressionist group, noted that he was “ such a teacher that he could have taught the stones to draw correctly .”

The individual artists achieved few financial rewards from the Impressionist exhibitions, but their art gradually won a degree of public acceptance and support.

By this time the methods of Impressionist painting, in a diluted form, had become commonplace in Salon art.

By the early 1880s, Impressionist methods were affecting, at least superficially, the art of the Salon.

Korteling had rejected the Impressionist movement and other modern trends, as decadent, degenerate art, and his strong personal influence probably later led van Meegeren to rebuff contemporary styles and paint exclusively in the style of the Dutch Golden Age.

The NGV's Australian art collection encompasses Indigenous ( Australian Aboriginal ) art, Australian colonial painting, Australian Impressionist painting, 20th century, modern and contemporary Australian art.

The Florence Griswold House in Old Lyme housed an art colony for many years in the early 20th century to many prominent American Impressionist painters.

One of the auction house's " rainmakers " in the sale of Impressionist and Modern art, Guy Bennett, resigned from the auction house just prior to the beginning of the summer 2009 sales season.

As of 2012, Impressionist works, which dominated the market during the 1980s boom, have been replaced by contemporary art as Christie ’ s top category.

French Neoclassical, Impressionist and post-Impressionist art, including works by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Gauguin, is displayed there in the southeastern corner.

In 1948 316 works of Impressionist, post-Impressionist and modern art from the collection of the Museum of New Western Art in Moscow, originating mostly from the nationalized collections of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov and disestablished before the war, were transferred to the Hermitage, including works by Matisse and Picasso.

Over the years other names were given to pictorialism, including " art photography " and Camerawork ( both by Alfred Stieglitz ), " Impressionist photography " ( by George Davision ), " new vision ( Neue Vision ), and finally " subjective photography " ( Subjektive Fotographie ) in Germany after the 1940s.

Described by art historian Robert Rosenblum as having " almost a generic character, an impersonal textbook idea of a perfect Impressionist painting ", his work strongly invokes atmosphere, and his skies are always impressive.

Some see strong connections between the art of the school and the wider Impressionist movement, while others point to earlier traditions of plain air painting elsewhere in Europe.

The Museum has the most significant collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in Southern California.

The institution for which Merion is singularly world-renowned is the Barnes Foundation, an important art collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings amassed by drug entrepreneur Albert C. Barnes that since the 1920s has been housed in a granite mansion with gardens on Latches Lane.

Thanks to his sharp visual acuity, he quickly became Sotheby's expert on Impressionist art.

The art collection at the Institute was begun by its founder, Samuel Courtauld, who presented an extensive collection of mainly French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in 1932, which was enhanced by further gifts in the 1930s and a bequest in 1948.

The Tweed Museum of Art's history began in the 1920s when George and Alice Tweed first began collecting pieces of 19th and 20th American and European art including examples of the French Barbizon School and Impressionist influenced American Landscape painting.

The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and decorative arts.

Art critic Frank Rutter said it made him " boil with rage " that the Fund had spent thousands of pounds on Old Master paintings, some of which he considered of dubious merit or condition, but " would not contribute one half penny " to his appeal in 1905 to buy the first Impressionist painting for the National Gallery, although it welcomed the prestige of presenting the painting, Eugène Boudin's The Entrance to Trouville Harbour, the following year.

Louis Delluc ( 14 October 1890 – 22 March 1924 ) was an Impressionist French film director, screen writer and film critic.

He was close to writers such as Edmond de Goncourt and critic Gustave Geffroy, and numbered among his friends Millet and Corot, Henri Fantin-Latour, Degas and the Impressionist circle, and Auguste Rodin.

“ The Barnes Foundation was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to ‘ promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts .’... the Foundation is home to one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir and Modigliani, as well as important examples of African sculpture .”

Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “ dean of the Impressionist painters ", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also " by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality ”.

It is assumed that many of those lost were done in the Impressionist style he was then developing, thereby “ documenting the birth of Impressionism ," a style that some credit him with inventing.

The following year, in 1874, the group held their first ' Impressionist ' Exhibition, which shocked and “ horrified ” the critics, who primarily appreciated only scenes portraying religious, historical, or mythological settings.

In later years, Cézanne also recalled this period and referred to Pissarro as “ the first Impressionist ”.

As Joachim Pissarro points out, “ Once such a die-hard Impressionist as Pissarro had turned his back on Impressionism, it was apparent that Impressionism had no chance of surviving.

More than this, she was inspired to “ foster a new truth in painting ” in the Boston art community that was not responsive to the new Impressionist modes.