TVM 2nd Floor: 19th C. Impressionism -- Overview

Impressionism
1850 to 1875

Overview

The invention of photography in 1822 with its continual improvement throughout the 19th century led toward an interest in light and lighting effects, just as surely as it led artists away from a photo seeming realism that Caravaggio had popularized at the beginning of the Baroque period.

This gallery contains nearly 400 pictures. Many are stored in special galleries devoted to one artists. You can get to one of those galleries by following the link at the bottom of an artist-description.

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Gustave Courbet

born: Ornans, France; 10 June 1819
died: Vevey, Switzerland; 31 December 1877

Woman with a Parrot

Twelve more Courbet pictures.

Camille Pissarro

born: St. Thomas, West Indies; 10 July 1830
died: Paris, France; 13 November 1903

Boulevard at Night

Hoarfrost

Twelve more Pissarro city and people pictures.

Fourteen more Pissarro country pictures.

Edouard Manet

born: Paris, France; 23 January 1832
died: Paris, France; 30 April 1883

Women with Plum

Eighteen more Manet pictures of flowers, crowds, boating, and travel, etc.

Fifteen more Manet pictures of people.

Hillaire Germain Edgar Degas

born: Paris, France; 19 July 1834
died: Paris, France; 27 September 1917

Dancing Lesson
1879

Twenty more Degas pictures on the Ballet and the Theater.

Twenty-four more Degas pictures on the Horses, Women Bathing, and others.

Alfred Sisley

born: Paris, France; 30 October 1839
died: Moret sur Loing, France; France; 29 1899

The Bark During the
Flood at Port-Marly

Six more Sisley pictures.

Paul Cezanne

born: Aix-en-Provence, France; 19 January 1839
died: Aix-en-Provence, France, 22 October 1906

Millstone

Thirteen more Cezanne pictures.

Fifteen additional Cezanne pictures.

Auguste Rodin

born: Paris, France; 12 November 1840
died: Meudon, France; 17 November 1917

A sculptor. Also a man incapable of finishing anything, yet who became one of the most important artists of the period. Here is a sketch and a photo of a finished sculptures.

Minerva

The Kiss