The greatest Impressionist painters
The top 3 according to 12 votes from people: Claude Monet · Edgar Degas · Camille Pissarro. (Updated Jan 11, 2023.)
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.
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Top 12
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Claude Monet
1840-1926. Impression, Sunrise (1872), which gave the movement its name.
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Edgar Degas
1834-1917. The dancers of the Paris Opera.
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Camille Pissarro
1830-1903. The only painter to show at all eight Impressionist exhibitions.
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Berthe Morisot
1841-1895. The Cradle (1872); the first woman of the group.
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Alfred Sisley
1839-1899. Landscapes of the Île-de-France and the Port-Marly floods.
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Édouard Manet
1832-1883. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863); a forerunner who never exhibited with the group.
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Mary Cassatt
1844-1926. American in Paris, painter of motherhood.
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Gustave Caillebotte
1848-1894. Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877); patron of his friends.
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Paul Cézanne
1839-1906. Showed in 1874 before paving the way for Cubism.
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10
Frédéric Bazille
1841-1870. Member of the group, killed in the war of 1870.
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Armand Guillaumin
1841-1927. Brightly coloured landscapes of the Creuse.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919. Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876).
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Comments (4)
Berthe Morisot mérite tellement plus de reconnaissance.
Caillebotte, Rue de Paris temps de pluie, sublime.
Monet en premier, évidemment, les Nymphéas à l'Orangerie...
Cézanne c'est déjà du post-impressionnisme, non ?