Impressionist Portrait 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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1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Lithograph
1870s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Engraving
Early 2000s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching, Aquatint
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph, Paper
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Lithograph
Late 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1990s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Lithograph
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Lithograph
1910s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching, Paper
Late 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Canvas, Giclée
1950s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1950s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1990s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Lithograph
1980s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1950s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
2010s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching, Aquatint
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Prints
Canvas, Giclée
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1950s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
19th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Drypoint
1990s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Lithograph
Early 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Engraving
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Lithograph
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper
1920s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1980s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1990s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
1980s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Offset
1910s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching
1910s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1980s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Aquatint, Paper
1920s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching
1980s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1950s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1910s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1930s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching
1980s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph, Paper
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1920s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1870s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching
1930s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
19th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Drypoint, Etching
1930s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Woodcut
1990s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Watercolor, Etching
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1870s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching
1880s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching
1920s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
1980s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1980s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1860s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Etching