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Also Known As Impressionnisme
Date c. 1867 - c. 1886
Related Artists Edgar Degas • Paul Cézanne • Claude Monet • Honoré Daumier • Camille Pissarro • Édouard Manet • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov • Mary Cassatt • Emmanuel Chabrier • Gustave Caillebotte • Walter Richard Sickert • Max Liebermann • Lilla Cabot Perry • Lovis Corinth • William J. Glackens • Berthe Morisot • John Henry Twachtman • Charles Griffes • Homer Dodge Martin • Medardo Rosso • Armand Guillaumin • Alfred Sisley • Charles Martin Loeffler • Tom Roberts • Childe Hassam • Frédéric Bazille • Anders Zorn

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
Eugène Boudin: Beach Scene
Johan Barthold Jongkind: The Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris
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Jean-François Millet: The Angelus
Édouard Manet: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)
Gustave Courbet: A Burial at Ornans
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