The document summarizes the French Impressionist art movement between 1867 and 1886. Key points include: - Impressionists aimed to accurately depict visual reality and effects of light/color, influenced by scientific light examination - Major artists included Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Degas, and Cézanne - Impressionism emphasized small brushstrokes, light/color depiction, ordinary subjects, and movement over composition - The term "Impressionism" originated from Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise (1872) - Artists explored new techniques like plein air painting and the use of complementary colors

4. ÉDOUARD MANET, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’ x 8’ 10”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

5. ÉDOUARD MANET, Olympia, 1863. Oil on canvas, 4’ 3” x 6’ 3”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

6. ÉDOUARD MANET, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882. Oil on canvas.

12. CLAUDE MONET, Impression: Sunrise, 1872. Oil on canvas, 1’ 7 1/2” x 2’ 1 1/2”. Musée Marmottan, Paris.

14. Garden at Sainte-Adresse 1867 (140 Kb); Oil on canvas, 98.1 x 129.9 cm The Beach at Sainte-Adresse 1867 Claude Monet Early Work

15. Monet painted canals, boats, and windmills in Holland and worked again at Le Havre. Coquelicots (Poppies, Near Argenteuil) 1873; La Promenade 1875 Monet First Impressionist paintings

16. Later Impressionism Work The Boat Studio 1876 Woman with a Parasol 1875

17. Woman with a Parasol, epitomizes the Impressionist concept of "the glance". It triumphs wonderfully in conveying the sensation of a snapshot in time, a stroll on a beautiful sunny day. The brushwork, feathery splashes of pulsating color, is critical in establishing this feeling of spontaneity. Monet's painting in series attains an impressive climax in the series he devoted to the Rouen Cathedral Saint-Lazare Station 1877 Rouen Cathedral: 1894 ; Monet - In Paris and Studies of Light

18. 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).

19. Monet - His water-garden and water-lilies at Giverny

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

25. The Swing 1876 On the Terrace 1881

27. La famille de l'artiste 1896 The Umbrellas

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

30. Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter 1872-73, Oil on canvas was accepted by the jury at the Salon, the official annual exhibition in Paris. Cassatt exhibited this painting in Boston in 1878; in 1910 it became one of the first of her works to enter the collection of an American museum. In theLoge 1877-78 Cassatt

31. Cassatt exhibited this work in the Impressionist exhibition of 1880, one French reviewer wrote "I also very much like the woman reading on a balcony, where shrubs frame her blonde head with peonies-much like Japanese art, with its absence of deep space and the happy mix of colors in an entirely cheerful scale . . . every one of Mlle. Cassatt's fifteen entries merits consideration for some felicity of movement or harmony." On a Balcony 1878-79 Portrait of a Little Girl 1878, Refusal of this work in a show solidified her place in the Impressionist Movement

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

38. EDGAR DEGAS, The Tub, 1886. Pastel, 1’ 11 1/2” x 2’ 8 3/8”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

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

40. 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 (the Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection).

41. HIPPOLYTE JOUVIN, The Pont Neuf, Paris, ca. 1860–1865. Albumen stereograph.

42. BERTHE MORISOT, Villa at the Seaside, 1874. Oil on canvas, approx. 1’ 7 3/4” x 2’ 1/8".