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Also Known As Impressionnisme
Date c. 1867 - c. 1886
Related Artists Edgar Degas • Paul Cézanne • Claude Monet • Camille Pissarro • Honoré Daumier • Édouard Manet • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov • Mary Cassatt • Emmanuel Chabrier • Gustave Caillebotte • William J. Glackens • Berthe Morisot • Walter Richard Sickert • Max Liebermann • Lilla Cabot Perry • Lovis Corinth • Alfred Sisley • John Henry Twachtman • Homer Dodge Martin • Armand Guillaumin • Medardo Rosso • Charles Griffes • Childe Hassam • Charles Martin Loeffler • Tom Roberts • 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
Théodore Rousseau: Under the Birches, Evening
Jean-François Millet: The Angelus
Édouard Manet: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)
Gustave Courbet: A Burial at Ornans
Claude Monet: Impression, Sunrise
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