1. Impressionism

2. Characteristics
• Avant-garde artists
• Interested in the quick, transient, fleeting effect
of light on a surface
• Shadows have color
• Interested in how time of day or season controls
appearance of object
• Landscapes (Monet), figures (Renoir, Degas,
Morisot, Cassatt), still-lifes

3. Figure 29-20 CLAUDE MONET, Impression: Sunrise, 1872. Oil on canvas, 1’ 7 1/2” x 2’
1 1/2”. Musée Marmottan, Paris.

4. Figure 29-21 CLAUDE MONET, Saint-Lazare Train Station, 1877. Oil on canvas, 2’
5 3/4” x 3’ 5”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

5. Figure 29-22 GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE, Paris: A Rainy Day, 1877. Oil on canvas,
approx. 6’ 9” x 9’ 9”. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Worcester Fund.

6. Caillebotte

7. Fig. 29-20

8. Figure 29-23 CAMILLE PISSARRO, La Place du Théâtre Français, 1898. Oil on
canvas, 2’ 4 1/2” x 3’ 1/2”. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

9. Figure 29-24 HIPPOLYTE JOUVIN, The Pont Neuf, Paris, ca. 1860–1865. Albumen
stereograph.

10. Figure 29-25 PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876. Oil on
canvas, approx. 4’ 3” x 5’ 8”. Louvre, Paris.

11. Figure 29-26 ÉDOUARD MANET, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882. Oil on canvas,
approx. 3’ 1” x 4’ 3”. Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London.

12. Figure 29-27 EDGAR DEGAS, Ballet Rehearsal, 1874. Oil on canvas, 1’ 11” x 2’ 9”.
Glasgow Museum, Glasgow (The Burrell Collection).

13. Fig. 29-26

14. Figure 29-28 BERTHE MORISOT, Villa at the Seaside, 1874. Oil on canvas, approx.
1’ 7 3/4” x 2’ 1/8". Norton Simon Art Foundation, Los Angeles.

15. Figure 29-29 CLAUDE MONET,
Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun),
1894. Oil on canvas, 3’ 3 1/4” x 2’ 1
7/8”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York (Theodore M. Davis Collection,
bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915).

16. Figure 29-30 EDGAR DEGAS, The Tub, 1886. Pastel, 1’ 11 1/2” x 2’ 8 3/8”. Musée
d’Orsay, Paris.

17. Figure 29-31 MARY CASSATT, The
Bath, ca. 1892. Oil on canvas, 3’ 3” x
2’ 2”. The Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago (Robert A. Walker Fund).

18. Figure 29-32 HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, At the Moulin Rouge, 1892–
1895. Oil on canvas, approx. 4’ x 4’ 7”. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

19. Figure 29-33 JAMES
ABBOTT MCNEILL
WHISTLER, Nocturne in Black
and Gold (The Falling Rocket),
ca. 1875. Oil on panel, 1’ 11
5/8” x 1’ 6 1/2”. Detroit
Institute of Arts, Detroit (gift of
Dexter M. Ferry Jr.).