Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience. Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.
The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe.
Events from the year 1866 in art.
Events from the year 1869 in art.
Events from the year 1871 in art.
Events from the year 1875 in art.
The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum is a museum located on the grounds of the University of Haifa, Israel.
Musée Marmottan Monet is an art museum in Paris, France, dedicated to artist Claude Monet. The collection features over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, including his 1872 Impression, Sunrise. The museum's fame is the result of a donation in 1966 by Michel Monet, Claude's second son and only heir.
The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille is a municipal museum dedicated to fine arts, modern art, and antiquities located in Lille. It is one of the largest art museums in France.
The Staatliche Kunsthalle is an art museum in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Adolphe Étienne Auguste Moreau-Nélaton was a French painter, art collector and art historian. His large collection is today held in its entirety by French national museums.
The Musée d'art moderne André Malraux is a museum in Le Havre, France containing one of the nation's most extensive collections of impressionist paintings. It was designed by Atelier LWD, an architecture studio led by Guy Lagneau, Michel Weill and Jean Dimitrijevic. It is named after André Malraux, Minister of Culture when the museum was opened in 1961.
The Lane Bequest is a collection of 39 paintings from the estate of Sir Hugh Lane. The collection is mainly paintings by French 19th-century artists, including several by the Impressionists, including masterpieces such as Manet's Music in the Tuileries (1862) and Renoir's The Umbrellas (c.1881), along with many more modest works. The collection is owned by the National Gallery, London, but most of the paintings are now displayed at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin.
Baron Adolf Kohner Szaszberek was a Hungarian businessman, landowner and a leading member of the Jewish community in that country.
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Guillemet was a French renowned landscape painter and longtime Jury member of the Salon des Artistes Francais. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki opened on the shore of Lake Senba in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, in October 1988. The collection, numbering some 3,700 pieces as of October 2015, includes works by Manet, Monet, and Renoir, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Carrière, Camille Pissarro und Alfred Sisley as well as Yōga and Nihonga by artists including Tsuguharu Foujita, Heihachirō Fukuda, Taikan Yokoyama, Yukihiko Yasuda, Tetsugoro Yorozu, Kanzan Shimomura, Kenzo Okada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Kiyokata Kaburagi, Kokei Kobayashi, Gyoshū Hayami, Hishida Shunsō, and Shikō Imamura.
Gustav Rau was a German medical doctor, philanthropist and art collector. Rau who was born and died in Stuttgart.
A Young Lady in 1866 or Lady with a Parakeet is an 1866 painting by Édouard Manet, showing his favourite model Victorine Meurent, wearing a pink gown, holding a small bouquet of violettes and accompanied by an African Grey Parrot. It is an oil painting on canvas measuring 185.1 x 128.6 cm, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It and Boy Carrying a Sword were the first of Manet's works to enter a gallery collection.
Suzanne Hecht Pontremoli was a French art collector.
Albert Pontremoli, also known as M. Albert Pontremoli,, was a French art collector, lawyer and magistrate of Italian origin.
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Jacob Pijnssen, 1514
Govert Flinck, Ritratto di un uomo barbuto in busto, 1638
Adriaen van der Werff, Ritratto di una donna nelle vesti di Diana, 1686
Eugène Delacroix, Cristo sul mare di Galilea, 1853
Eugène Delacroix, Saada, la moglie Abraham Ben-Chimol, e Préciada, una delle loro figlie, 1832
John Constable, Dedham Lock, 1820
Eva Gonzalès, La pianta fiorita, 1872
Eva Gonzalès, La servitrice, 1864
Édouard Manet, Donna con pappagallo, 1866
Édouard Manet, Ragazzo che soffia bolle di sapone, 1867
Édouard Manet, The Croquet Game, 1873
Édouard Manet, Swallows, 1873
Édouard Manet, La Viennese, 1881
Édouard Manet, The Escape of Rochefort (1880-81) Museo d'Orsay di Parigi
Édouard Manet, Ballo in maschera all'Opera, 1873
Claude Monet, Vista di un porto, 1871
Claude Monet, Barche nel porto di Londra, 1871
Claude Monet, Il lungo mare d'Argenteuil, 1882
Claude Monet, Regata a Sainte-Adresse, 1867
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, La sera al lago d'Albano, 1855
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Mattina sotto gli alberi, 1875
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Souvenir of the Environs of Lake Nemi, 1865
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, L'odalisque Sicilienne Corot, 1872
Gustave Courbet, L'immensità, 1869
Edgar Degas,Il Balletto di Robert le Diable, 1871
Edgar Degas,Il balletto dell'Opera di Parigi, 1877
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Prima del bagno, 1873
Antoine-Louis Barye, Gruppo di bisonti, 1810
Alfred Sisley, Il Lavatoio di Bougival, 1877
Claude Monet, Les déchargeurs de charbon, 1875
