# The greatest Impressionist painters

The painters of the movement born in Paris in the 1870s, from the first exhibition at Nadar's studio in 1874 to the Water Lilies, with an emblematic work by each.

- 12 votes · 12 items
- Jan 11, 2023 · Pauline R.
- https://even.best/en/l/1109/the-greatest-impressionist-painters

## Top 12

1. **Claude Monet** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1840-1926. Impression, Sunrise (1872), which gave the movement its name.
2. **Edgar Degas** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1834-1917. The dancers of the Paris Opera.
3. **Camille Pissarro** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1830-1903. The only painter to show at all eight Impressionist exhibitions.
4. **Berthe Morisot** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1841-1895. The Cradle (1872); the first woman of the group.
5. **Alfred Sisley** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1839-1899. Landscapes of the Île-de-France and the Port-Marly floods.
6. **Édouard Manet** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1832-1883. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863); a forerunner who never exhibited with the group.
7. **Mary Cassatt** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1844-1926. American in Paris, painter of motherhood.
8. **Gustave Caillebotte** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1848-1894. Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877); patron of his friends.
9. **Paul Cézanne** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1839-1906. Showed in 1874 before paving the way for Cubism.
10. **Frédéric Bazille** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1841-1870. Member of the group, killed in the war of 1870.
11. **Armand Guillaumin** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1841-1927. Brightly coloured landscapes of the Creuse.
12. **Pierre-Auguste Renoir** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1841-1919. Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876).

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