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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
French, 1796-1875

Well among the Dunes
c. 1854
Oil on panel, 46 x 56 cm
Museum Mesdag, The Hague

Charles François Daubigny
French, 1817-1878

April Moon (La Lune Rousse)
1875
Oil on panel, 65 x 110 cm
Museum Mesdag, The Hague

The Banks of the Oise
1872
Oil on panel, 34.7 x 58.3 cm
Museum Mesdag, The Hague

Honoré Daumier
French, 1808-1879

An Artist
c. 1870-75
Oil on panel, 35.3 x 27 cm
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Ballet Dancer with Arms Crossed
c. 1872
Oil on canvas, 61.4 x 50.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of John T. Spaulding

Portrait of Madame de Nittis
1862-82
Oil on canvas, 74.3 x 55.2 cm
Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Gift of the Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc.

Visit to a Museum
1879-80
Oil on canvas, 91.8 x 68 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John McAndrew

Woman Viewed from Behind
c. 1879
Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 75.6 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Edouard Manet
French, 1832-1883

Before the Mirror
1876
Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 71.4 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978

Copy after Delacroix's "Barque of Dante"
c. 1854
Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929

Grand Canal, Venice
1875
Oil on canvas, 58 x 71 cm
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont

Marine View in Holland
1872
Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 60.3 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund

Moss Roses in a Vase
1882
Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 34.3 cm
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Sketch for "The Bar at the Folies-Bergère"
1881
Oil on canvas, 47 x 56 cm
Private collection

The Funeral
1870
Oil on canvas, 72.7 x 90.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1909

The Races at Longchamps
1866
Oil on canvas, 43.9 x 84.5 cm
The Art Institute of Chicago. Potter Palmer Collection

Woman Reading
1878-79
Oil on canvas, 61.2 x 50.7 cm
The Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

A Festival at Argenteuil
1872
Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 80.5 cm
Private collection, Dallas

A Stormy Sea
c. 1884
Oil on canvas, 60 x 73.7 cm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased, 1946

Bathers at La Grenouillère
1869
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
The National Gallery, London

Bazille and Camille
1865
Oil on canvas, 93 x 68.9 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Cap Martin, near Menton
1884
Oil on canvas, 67.2 x 81.6 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection

La Gare d'Argenteuil
1872
Oil on canvas, 47.5 x 71 cm
Conseil Général du Val d'Oise, Pontoise

La Gare St. Lazare
1877
Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 73.6 cm
The National Gallery, London

Marine near Etretat
1882
Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 73.8 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Bequest of Mrs. Frank Graham Thomson

Poplars on the Epte
1891
Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 73.7 cm
Tate Gallery, London

Portrait of Père Paul
1882
Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 52.1 cm
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Red Mullets
c. 1870
Oil on canvas, 31.1 x 46 cm
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gift of Friends of the Fogg Art Museum

Regatta at Argenteuil
1872
Oil on canvas, 48 x 75 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Bequest of Gustave Caillebotte, 1894

The Beach at Trouville
1870
Oil on canvas, 37.5 x 47.5 cm
The National Gallery, London

The Sea at Le Havre
1868
Oil on canvas, 60 x 81.6 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Museum purchase, 1953

The Seine at Lavacourt
1879
Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm
Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Bequest of Charles Francis Adams

The Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers
1872
Oil on canvas, 43 x 73 cm
The John M. and Sally B. Thornton Trust

The Seine at Port-Villez (A Gust of Wind)
1883
Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm
Columbus Museum of Art. Gift of Howard D. and Babette L. Sirak, the Donors to the Campaign for Enduring Excellence, and the Derby Fund

Towing a Boat, Honfleur
1864
Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 82.1 cm
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. Gift of Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson

Windmill near Zaandam
1871
Oil on canvas, 41 x 72.5 cm
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841-1895

Child among the Hollyhocks
1881
Oil on canvas, 50 x 42 cm
Fondation Corboud, on permanent loan to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

Hanging the Laundry out to Dry
1875
Oil on canvas, 33 x 40.6 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Interior of a Cottage
1886
Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 61.5 cm
Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels. Fritz Toussaint Collection

Marine in England
1875
Oil on canvas, 38 x 45 cm
Private collection

Summer's Day
c. 1879
Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 75.2 cm
The National Gallery, London

The Artist's Daughter Julie, with her Nanny (The Sewing Lesson)
1885
Oil on canvas, 59 x 71 cm
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The John R. Van Derlip Fund

The Jetty
1875
Oil on canvas, 24.1 x 51.4 cm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

West Cowes, Isle of Wight
1875
Oil on canvas, 46 x 36 cm
Private collection

White Flowers in a Bowl
1885
Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of John T. Spaulding

Camille Pissarro
French, 1830-1903

After the Rain, Quay at Pontoise
1876
Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm
The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

Study of a Sunset, Pontoise
1877
Oil on canvas, 38.5 x 56 cm
Charles B. Key, M.D.

The Boulevard Montmartre at Night
1897
Oil on canvas, 53.3 x 64.8 cm
The National Gallery, London

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919

A Gust of Wind
c. 1878
Oil on canvas, 52 x 82.5 cm
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

At the Milliner's
1878
Oil on canvas, 32.7 x 24.8 cm
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bequest of Annie Swan Coburn

By the Fireplace
1876
Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 50.6 cm
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Head of a Dog
1870
Oil on canvas, 21.9 x 20 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Little Blue Nude
c. 1878-79
Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 38.1 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. General Purchase Funds, 1941

Madame Monet and her Son
1874
Oil on canvas, 50.4 x 68 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Road at Wargemont
1879
Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 100 cm
The Toledo Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Roses in a Vase
1876
Oil on canvas, 60.7 x 51.4 cm
Private collection

Self-Portrait
c. 1875
Oil on canvas, 39.1 x 31.7 cm
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Sketch for "Ball at the Moulin de la Galette"
1875
Oil on canvas, 65 x 85 cm
Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen

Sunset at Sea
c. 1883
Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 61 cm
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

The Dreamer
1879
Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 59.7 cm
The Saint Louis Art Museum. Purchase

The Grand Boulevards
1875
Oil on canvas, 51.3 x 62.5 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny

Alfred Sisley
English, 1839-1899

A Turn in the Road
1873
Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 64.7 cm
The Art Institute of Chicago. Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection

Boats on the Seine
c. 1877
Oil on canvas, laid down on plywood, 37.2 x 44.3 cm
Courtauld Gallery, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Factory in a Flood
1873
Oil on canvas, 50 x 65.5 cm
Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen

The Bridge at Sèvres
1877
Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 46 cm
Tate Gallery, London

The By Road at the Roches-Courtaut Woods; St. Martin's Summer
1881
Oil on canvas, 59.1 x 81 cm
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Purchase, John W. Tempest Fund

The Fourteenth of July at Marly-le-Roi
1875
Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm
Bedford Borough Council, England

The Seine at Billancourt
1877-78
Oil on canvas, 37.5 x 54 cm
The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee. Gift of Montgomery H. W. Ritchie

The Watering Place at Marly-le-Roi
c. 1875
Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65.4 cm
The National Gallery, London

Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890

A Pair of Shoes
1885-86
Oil on canvas, 37.5 x 45 cm
Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Foundation), Amsterdam

Crab on its Back
1889
Oil on canvas, 38 x 46.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Foundation), Amsterdam

Entrance to a Quarry
1889
Oil on canvas, 60 x 73.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Foundation), Amsterdam

Portrait of a Woman in Blue
1886-87
Oil on canvas, 46 x 38.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Foundation), Amsterdam

Seascape
1888
Oil on canvas, 51 x 64 cm
Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Foundation), Amsterdam

Trunks of Trees with Ivy
1889
Oil on canvas, 47 x 64 cm
Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Foundation), Amsterdam

The "point" of Impressionist art was to capture the fleeting moment, the transient effect of a certain place, person, or time. Impressionist artists worked on-site with speed and directness, hoping to distinguish their works with a new freshness, immediacy, and truthfulness. Yet the paintings they exhibited were in fact almost always completed in the studio later. This beautifully illustrated book investigates for the first time the works that might truly be called "Impressions"—paintings that appear to be rapid transcriptions of shifting subjects but were nonetheless considered finished by their makers. Renowned Impressionist scholar Richard R. Brettell identifies and discusses Impressions by some of the best-known artists of the period, including Manet, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Morisot, Degas, Pissarro, and Caillebotte.

The book surveys the various practices of individual artists in the making, signing, exhibiting, and selling of Impressions. Brettell discusses the pictorial theories behind the paintings, the sales strategies for them, and the various forms they took, including works completed in one sitting, "apparent" Impressions, and repeated Impressions. In a concluding chapter, the author considers a small group of works by Vincent van Gogh, who painted with an almost fanatical rapidity and was the only major Post-Impressionist painter to push the aesthetic of the Impression even further.

This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the National Gallery in London from November 1, 2000, to January 28, 2001, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from March 2 to May 20, 2001, and the Clark Art Institute from June 17 to September 9, 2001.

240 pages, 9 3/8 x 11 inches
183 color and six black-and-white illustrations
2000
Published in association with Yale University Press
ISBN 0-300-08446-3 (hardcover)
ISBN 0-300-08447-1 (softcover)