Impressionist Figurative Paintings
IMPRESSIONIST STYLE
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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Style: Impressionist
Landscape with characters spanish original oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquim Marsillach i Codony (1905-1986) - Landscape with characters
Oil on canvas
Oil measures 46x55 cm.
Frame measures 69x78 cm.
Marsillach Codony, Joaquim. Olot (Gerona), 22.V.190...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
English yacht racing, sailing in the English Channel off the White Cliffs, Dover
Located in Woodbury, CT
A Yacht racing or sailing in the English Channel off the White Cliffs of Dover by Frank H Mason.
Purchasing "Yacht Racing/Sailing off Dover Castle in the English Channel, UK" by Fra...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
French Impressionist Oil on Board, 'Villecelle Pres de Lamalou' South of France.
By Charles Pellegrin
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century French Impressionist street scene by Charles Pellegrin. The painting is signed bottom right and there is a title and exhibition label to the back of the panel. Presented in deep gilt wood and cloth frame.
A charming view of two figures, a mother and child, making their way along a French street in the South of France. on each side of them stone houses and monuments. Pellegrin has captured the romanticism of the scene, the colours of the stone harmonising with the clay roof tiles...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Spanish pyrenean town oil on canvas painting landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frameless.
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English Harvest - Vintage Impressionist Landscape Painting with Horses & Figures
Located in Preston, GB
English Harvest - Vintage 20th Century Impressionist Oil Painting with Horses & Figures by British Artist, David Hyde
Art measures 16 x 12 inches
Frame m...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Fishing on the Seine - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel landscape circa 1940 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The work depicts a man fishing on the bank of the River Seine in France on a c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Black and White Figurative Nude - Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Black and White Figurative Nude - Oil on Canvas
Black and white figurative nude by F Vasquez (20th C). The nude torso of a woman takes up the canvas. Her right hand is on her hip wh...
Category
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
English River landscape, with Church and River at Sunset, Abingdon on the Thames
Located in Woodbury, CT
English River landscape, with Church and River at Sunset, Abingdon on the Thames. England
Wonderful scene of Abingdon on the Thames by one of Englands best known landscape painters....
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Serpent Tempter
Located in Sempach, LU
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"The Serpent Tempter" from the "PERICHORESIS SERI...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Cafe with Lakeside View of Lake Lugano" Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in New York, NY
A whimsical oil painting depicting a cafe scene with Lakeside views of Lake Lugano. A region in between Switzerland and Norther Italy. As an Italian Impressionist artist, most of Ca...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist New England Beach Bathers Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist bather scene by John Edward Costigan (1888 - 1972). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Let’s eat, honey
Located in Sempach, LU
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
'Let's Eat, Honey' is a celebration of the shared...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
While waiting call for dinner
Located in Sempach, LU
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"While Waiting for the Call to Dinner" captures t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
19th century French painting - Fisherman retuning home in a sunset landscape
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century French oil painting depicting a Fisherman returning home in a peaceful countryside landscape
This lovely painting depicts a charming French countryside landscape at dus...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Francisco Bartus, "Tree of Life", 40x40 Metallic Textured Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Tree of Life", is a 40x40 mixed media painting on canvas by artist Francisco Bartus. Featured is a tree of life symbol, made up of individual helpings of paint, strategi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Ingeborg Åkerman, Woman Sitting in a Garden Arbor Sewing
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautifully painted motif by the female artist Ingeborg Åkerman (1881-1960) of a woman sitting in her garden shaded from the sun by the arbor where she is sewing. It is probably pa...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vue de la Côte Normande by Claude-Émile Schuffenecker - Landscape painting
By Claude Emile Schuffenecker
Located in London, GB
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Vue de la Côte Normande by Claude-Émile Schuffenecker (1851-1934)
Oil on canvas
58 x 69 cm (22 ⁷/₈ x 27 ¹/₈ inches)
Sig...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Traditional Celebration and Costumes Japan or Okinawa
Located in Soquel, CA
Traditional Celebration and Costumes Japan or Okinawa
Oil painting on illustration board of Japanese Ryukyu or Okinawa Island festival goers by and unknown artist.
Elegantly dresse...
Category
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Foam Board
Canyelles Sitges Spain landscape original oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep María Vila Cañellas (1914-2001) - Canyelles Sitges Spain - Oil on board.
Oil measures 14x18 cm.
Frame 30x34 cm.
Josep María Vilá Cañellas (Vic, Osona, 1914 - Barcelona, 2001)....
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Look at this beauty, honey
Located in Sempach, LU
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"Look at This Beauty, Honey" captures a moment of...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Young Boy with Donkey, William Weintraub
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: William Weintraub (1926)
Title: Young Boy with Donkey
Year: 1962
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 33 x 25.5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1930's French Oil Portrait Lady With Sheer Black Head Scarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on canvas stuck on board, unframed
measures: 18 high by 15 inches wide
conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Midnight Moonlight, Contemporary Art, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara Harutyunyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2024
Style: Contemporary Art,
Titl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century impressionist painting - Summer in the Countryside , a shepherdess
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century impressionist painting, capturing a beautiful day in the countryside.
A young girl can be seen standing in front of her flock in the lush and beautiful countryside. A s...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Four Elements, Contemporary Art, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara Harutyunyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2024
Style: Contemporary Art,
Titl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ligurian Alps with snow-capped pink tinted peaks. Sign. C. Bentivoglio
Located in Firenze, IT
Ligurian Alps landscape with snow-capped peaks tinted by pink light.
It's an oil on canvas depicting a mountain scene with a small rural building.
The painting is of a rare, almo...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
" on vacation" Oil cm. 36 x 29 , 1959
Located in Torino, IT
Painter, vacation, summer, impressionism, picnic, 1950s
Russia,Green
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
American Impressionist NYC FLATIRON Union Square BROADWAY Painting
Located in New York, NY
Johann Berthelsen (1883 - 1972)
Flatiron, Union Square, Broadway
New York City
Oil on Board
15 x 11inches
19 X 15 inches with frame
Signed lower right: Johann Berthelsen;
Origina...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed English Impressionist Oil Painting Figure in Windswept Landscape Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Windy Landscape
English Impressionist artist, mid 20th century
signed oil on board, unframed
board: 10 x 14 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
It’s time for walking, mom
Located in Sempach, LU
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"It's Time for Walking, Mom" speaks to the comfor...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Avon River - Christ Church, New Zealand" - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By Leon Worley
Located in Soquel, CA
"Avon River", a beautiful mid century figurative landscape of Christ Church, New Zealand by Leon Worley (American, 1909-2003). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Leon Worley" lower...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Ave Maria
Located in Sempach, LU
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"Ave Maria" from the "PERICHORESIS SERIES" captur...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Mid 20th Century English Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Figure by Wispy Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Wispy Trees in the Landscape
English Impressionist artist, mid 20th century
signed oil on board, unframed
board: 10 x 14 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish pyrenean town oil on canvas painting landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frameless.
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ghislaine et ses amis
By Ferdinand-Joseph Gueldry
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Joseph Ferdinand GUELDRY (1858-1945)
Garden scene : Ghislaine et ses mais
Oil on canvas
Size : 50 x 73 cm
Signed lower right
Provenance: Private collection in Normandy.
Oil on ca...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
" Mother " Child, Mother, Mother's Day oil cm 67 x 100
By Gleb Savinov
Located in Torino, IT
Child,Baby,Maternity,child,Mother,Green,Window,spring,russian art
GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000)
Works by Gleb Savinov can be found in various private collect...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Tour Saint-Jacques, Paris - Impressionist Cityscape Oil by Konstantin Korovin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled landscape oil on board by Russian-born impressionist painter Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin. The work depicts a nighttime view of the ...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1930's French Impressionist Tall Orange Bell Tower In Busy Figure Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Town Bell Tower
by Louise Alix, French 1950's Impressionist
gouache on artist paper, unframed
painting: 10.5 x 7.5 inches
provenance: from a large private collection of this artists...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
La rue du village
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Léopold SURVAGE (1879-1968)
La rue du village
Oil on canvas
Size: 50 x 61 cm
Signed lower right
Provenance: Private collection in Normandy.
Oil on canvas in good condition.
Small...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French School - Poppy Starwars oil Painting - Flower
Located in Sempach, LU
Poppy Starwars
Structural analysis:
_ Feeling of the wind in the flowers_ Abstract drippings bring movement to the still life painting. There are 2 systems of contrasts. First one...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
The Beverly Hills
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer's original artworks represent one of the most significant expressions of New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her colorful scenes of everyday ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Joggers at Battersea Park-original impressionism cityscape oil painting-Artwork
Located in London, Chelsea
"Morning Joggers at Battersea Park" invites viewers into a serene moment along the banks of the River Thames, captured with exquisite detail in this original cityscape painting. Exec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Boats at Sunset, Original Gouache on Paper, Impressionist style, French Painter
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This French watercolor dating from around 1930 conveys a serene maritime scene that resonates with the aesthetic principles of the Impressionists. The ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Young Lady in Green Reading Book
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
New York Railway - original cityscape impressionism oil painting-modern art
Located in London, Chelsea
"New York Railway" by Juan Del Pozo captures the bustling energy and iconic skyline of the city that never sleeps with a masterful stroke of impressionistic flair. At the heart of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist Oil Signed & Dated 1919 Portrait of Young Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Lady
French Impressionist artist
signed oil on board, unframed
dated 1919
board: 9.5 x 6.5 inches
double sided work
provenance: private collection
condition: seve...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Flora - Model adjusting her silk stockings"
Located in ludlow, GB
Oil on Canvas of the model Helen, adjusting the suspender on silk stockings. The gown she is wearing is a period gown from the wardrobe of the famous E...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bad Ischl Austria
By Franz Weidinger
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique watercolor painting by well listed Austrian artist Franz Weidinger. This work is signed and titled lower left and housed in a be...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Landscape, Original Oil on Panel, Impressionist Émile Louis Thivier (1858-1922)
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This small work by Émile Louis Thivier (1858-1922) offers a verdant vignette of nature, characterized by a lively touch and a rich palette, bringing to...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Tea Party with the Artist's Daughter Lois
Located in Washington, DC
Following two decades of successful impressionistic landscape painting, Wilson Henry Irvine became known for a new experimental style in the 1930s. In 1930, Irvine began making pris...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pebble Beach 1 and 2, Original Painting, Coastal art, Beach, Seaside, Summer
Located in Deddington, GB
Two colourful and lively aerial seascape paintings featuring turquoise waters and beach umbrellas. These paintings were inspired by the north coast of Cornwall and painted in Cornwal...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reading in the garden
Located in Sempach, LU
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Reading in the Garden" is an artistic reflection ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Buee Matinale - Impressionist Riverscape Oil Painting by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1930 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts a fisherman in a small boat by the bank of the River Seine ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sunset - Venice 1902 - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Joseph Clavel
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed, dated and inscribed oil on canvas landscape by French pre-impressionist painter Marie Joseph Leon Clavel Iwill. The work depicts a sil...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chamonix, le Mont Blanc
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Florent Chade (French, 1896-1985)
Title: Chamonix, le Mont Blanc
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Oil on canvas board
board size: 15 x 18.25 inches
Signature: Signed lower ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pebble Beach 1, Cornwall, Original Painting, Coastal art, Beach, Seaside, Summer
Located in Deddington, GB
A colourful and lively aerial seascape painting featuring turquoise waters and beach umbrellas. This painting was inspired by the north coast of Cornwall and painted in Cornwall. Len...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nuages sur la Seine - Fevrier - Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A good sized signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1930 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts a view of the River Seine. The cold scene is s...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French School PS 240 Van Gogh Starry night Girl Summer in La Baule Impressionist
Located in Sempach, LU
PS 240 Van Gogh Starry night Girl Summer in La Baule
Portrait of a woman with Van Gogh (The Starry night) swim dress.
Structural analysis:
Such as Impressionist painting, the su...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
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