Impressionist Figurative Prints
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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1910s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1960s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
1870s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Watercolor, Drypoint
1920s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
2010s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching, Aquatint
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
1960s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Offset
1890s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Drypoint, Etching
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Drypoint, Color
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1950s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1880s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Archival Paper, Etching
1950s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1980s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1950s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Offset
1970s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Offset
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1930s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Ink, Etching, Laid Paper
2010s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1970s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Offset
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1980s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1850s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Rice Paper, Woodcut
1860s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
1890s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1890s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Laid Paper, Etching, Intaglio
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Engraving
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Other Medium
1890s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Engraving
1980s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Archival Pigment
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1850s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Drypoint, Etching
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching, Laid Paper
1980s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Engraving, Aquatint
1880s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Paper, Screen
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
2010s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching, Aquatint
1890s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching, Drypoint
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Paper, Gouache, Monotype
1980s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Canvas, Printer's Ink, Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching, Aquatint
1870s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Drypoint, Etching
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Engraving
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Engraving
1930s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Laid Paper, Etching
1960s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1920s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1990s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Paper, Watercolor, Giclée
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1890s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
1970s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Paper, Lithograph
1990s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1880s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching, Paper, Ink
1910s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching