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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1970s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Engraving
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Engraving
19th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Drypoint
1860s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
Early 19th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Engraving
Early 1900s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1870s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
Early 2000s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
1910s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
1960s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
2010s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Canvas, Color
1970s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
Early 2000s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Screen
Early 2000s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Screen
1910s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching
1870s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching
Early 1900s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Aquatint
Late 20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 1900s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Screen
19th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching
1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1960s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Etching
1920s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Stencil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Screen
1890s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1910s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Woodcut
1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Screen
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1990s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
1960s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Watercolor, Aquatint
1930s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Drypoint
1970s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
1880s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching
Late 20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Screen
1970s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1870s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Ink, Tissue Paper, Woodcut
1920s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching
1950s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Watercolor, Lithograph, Stencil
1880s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching
1970s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Offset
1910s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching
1990s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Color, Lithograph
Early 20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Etching, Aquatint
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Canvas
1970s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Screen
1920s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Drypoint
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Offset
1930s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Laid Paper, Etching