Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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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1860s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Bathed in the hush of twilight, rows of blooming lavender stretch endlessly beneath a sky brushed with fading light. Each bold, textured stroke captures the fle...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Cotton, Varnish, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Wood, Wood Pan...
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Linen
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
This painting captures the setting sun over a game trail in Rockaway, NJ, artist Onelio Marrero’s hometown. A cold snap coated the ground, highlighting the ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Mixed Media
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Paper, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Coastal Davenport, California, comes alive with the essence of the Pacific coast in artist Lisa Elley's impressionist seascape. Rugged cliffs meet the gentle ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Raw Linen, Stretcher Bars
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil