Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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1920s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Aquatint
1950s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1970s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Stencil
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Stencil
1920s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Woodcut
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Stencil
1910s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Woodcut
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Giclée
Early 20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper
1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Canvas, Printer's Ink, Oil
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Stencil
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Satin Paper, Paper, Color
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Stencil, Lithograph
1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Ink, Etching, Paper
1990s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Offset
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Screen
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
Late 20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Etching
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Oil, Illustration Board, Screen
1930s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1890s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Watercolor
1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Screen
1970s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Offset
1990s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Screen
1870s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Drypoint
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
Early 20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Etching
1910s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Laid Paper, Lithograph
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Digital, Giclée
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Screen
1970s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
Late 18th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching, Paper
1910s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio
1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Screen
Late 19th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching, Drypoint
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Satin Paper, Color, Paper
1920s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Acrylic
The Master Smith. 1895. Lithograph. Way 84; Levy 123; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 120.i/ii. 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 (sheet 76 x 5 3/8). Only 15 lifetime impressions (in 2 states) were listed by Way; Goulding printed 38 impressions on 14 December 1903. The stone was erased in 1903. Printed on cream wove proofing paper. Monogrammed with the butterfly in the stone. A fine impression of this extremely rare lithograph.
Tedeschi, Stratis, and Spink write, page 366: As originally transferred to stone, the image includes trial marks made with a pointed crayon to the left of the sitter's shoulder. There is also a smudge at lower right below the image and a small stry mark upper right. Only one impression of this state has been located. Now in the Britigh Museum, London, it once belonged to Thomas Way and is illustrated in the Levy (1975) catalogue.' The impression illustrated above lacks the stray mark on the right, as the sheet is too small to accommodate it.
Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink write, page 366: 'This portrait of George Govier, was drawn ad the master smith conversed with the artist during a break from his work. Govier was born in Lyme Regis...
Late 19th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1990s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Screen
1910s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Laid Paper, Lithograph