Feature Image: Gustave Caillebotte, The Bezique Game (Partie de bésigue), 1880, private collection. The Seventh Impressionist Exhibition-1882.
Impressionism (1860s–1880s).
Born in Paris, this movement broke academic rules by prioritizing an artist’s personal perception over realistic detail.
- Core Focus: Fleeting light, shifting color, and modern urban life capturing immediate, subjective impressions.
- Technique: Rapid, broken brushwork.
- Key Figures: Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Édouard Manet, Alfred Sisley, Gustave Caillebotte.
FRANCE. IMPRESSIONISM. EUGÈNE BOUDIN (1824-1898) who Camille Corot called “King of The Skies!”
FEATURE image: Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Villerville, 1864, Oil on canvas, 18 × 30 1/16 in. (45.7 × 76.4 cm), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In 1893, in the last years of his long and successful art career, 69-year-old Eugène Boudin returned to the Normandy coast for which this French painter of skies…
FRANCE. IMPRESSIONISM. The “Tricky Business” of the Caillebotte Bequest.
FEATURE image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Swing, 1876, oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. By John P. Walsh Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) exhibited together in the Second Impressionist Exhibition in 1876 and became lifelong friends. Just two years later, in 1878, Caillebotte appointed Renoir to be executor…
FRANCE. IMPRESSIONISM. Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th IMPRESSIONIST ART EXHIBITIONS in Paris, 1879-1882.
FEATURE image: P.A.-Renoir, A Luncheon at Bougival, 1881, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. The Seventh Impressionist Exhibition – 1882. By John P. Walsh In the five years between the “balanced and coherent” Third Impressionist Art Exhibition in April 1877 and the penultimate Seventh Impressionist Art Exhibition in March 1882 which included Gustave Caillebotte’s The Bezique Game, significant…
FRANCE. IMPRESSIONISM. Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) and the 2nd and 3rd IMPRESSIONIST ART EXHIBITIONS in Paris, 1876 and 1877.
FEATURE image: Gustave Caillebotte, Paris street; a rainy day (Rue de Paris, Temps de pluie), 1877, The Art Institute of Chicago. Caillebotte submitted his painting to the Third Impressionist Art Exhibition held in Paris in 1877. The first Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris in 1874. Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) did not exhibit with the Impressionists…
