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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Spring Bouquet, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Karen d'Angeac Mihm used an early-season bouquet from her flower subscription as a reference in this still life. Drawn to the delicate shapes and gracefu...
Oil
Ochre Clouds Coastal Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Ochre Clouds Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 29" x44" x 1" inch (74 x 112 x 3cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrappe...
Canvas, Oil
Flowers and Wine Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Oil on canvas painting of red, white, and yellow flowers in a vase next to a bottle of wine and a glass by California artist Molly E. Brubaker (American, 1922-2000). from aFcollecti...
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Oil on Panel Landscape, Lourdes
Located in Cotignac, FR
Oil on panel view of Lourdes in France by Jacques Buecher. The painting is signed, titled and dated bottom left. There is an inscription to the back of the board top left. A very ch...
Oil, Wood Panel
Flowers Valley, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang, Impressionism
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism, Title: Flowers Valley, Size: 29.5" x 44"...
Canvas, Oil
$3,000Sale Price|20% Off
The Kindling Gatherers, 1890 (knighted Royal Academy member, Antique Landscape)
By Alfred East
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sir Alfred East was both a full member of the Royal Academy and president of the Royal Society of British Artists, so his pedigree is impeccable. He be...
Oil
$259Sale Price|20% Off
1940's Fashion Illustration - Stylish Blonde Lady In White Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The s...
Gouache
$931Sale Price|20% Off
The Road to the Ocean. Coastal landscape, ocean view, plein air, textured
Located in Oslo, NO
his painting was created en plein air on Oahu’s North Shore in early summer. "I was struck by the vivid green grass pushing through volcanic rock—bright circles of life set against...
Canvas, Oil
$1,807Sale Price|20% Off
Lugano Lake View. Swiss lake, mountain, Landscape Paintings
Located in Oslo, NO
"This painting was inspired by my impressions of Lugano — the calm surface of the lake, the quiet rhythm of the city, and the mountains rising like a green wall beyond it.", said Ele...
Canvas, Oil
Antoniou Signed Original Oil Painting Seascape, Coastal Scene Framed Vintage Art
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Original Signed Oil Painting by Antoniou – Mediterranean Coastal Scene Vintage Framed Artwork Sailboats, Mountains, Palm Trees & Coastal Cottage This vibrant original oil painting ...
Acrylic
"Pink flamingos"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The canvas reveals a vibrant and harmonious composition, where a graceful flock of flamingos appears in a dance of light and color. Their slender silhouettes, arched necks, and slend...
Canvas, Oil
$1,397Sale Price|20% Off
Huge Signed French Impressionist Oil - Bustling Parisian Street Vintage Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Patrice Landauer (French b.1965), signed lower right Title: Paris Medium: oil painting on wood panel, unframed Size: painting: 22 ...
Oil
$1,507Sale Price|20% Off
1930's Large French Oil Distinguished Portrait Dapper Gentleman in Suit & Chair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Seated Gentleman by Georges JOUBIN (1888-1983) signed and inscribed/ dated verso signed oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 36 x 29 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Con...
Oil
"Bass Rocks" Josephine Reichmann, Impressionist Surf, Luminous Waves, Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Josephine Reichmann Bass Rocks Signed lower right Oil on canvasboard 14 x 16 inches Reichmann was born in 1864 in Louisville, Kentucky. After studying at the School of the Art Inst...
Canvas, Oil, Board
Mount Shasta in Spring
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Mount Shasta in Spring" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by California artist Robert Wagner. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas ...
Oil
"British Countryside Landscape" British Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas
By John Clymer
Located in New York, NY
A masterful oil painting depicting a serene British country side landscape with some figures along a winding path cutting through a lush, green meadow. Tall, slender trees with spars...
Canvas, Oil
Pierre Auguste Renoir Apres Le Bain Sanguine Study
Located in Dallas, TX
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Apres Le Bain is a stunning 22 x 26-inch pencil and Sanguine chalk painting depicting a nude woman after her bath. This large, exquisitely detailed work showc...
Chalk, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
'Self-Portrait', Paris Salon, Royal Danish Academy, Impressionist oil, Benezit
By Julius Paulsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'J.P' for Julius Paulsen (Danish, 1860-1940) and painted circa 1910. A dramatic, early twentieth-century work by this notable Post-Impressionist painter and th...
Canvas, Oil
"Spring Deluge" - Original Oil Landscape Painting on Cradled Board
Located in Denver, CO
Artist Statement: Inspired by Dianne Dunbar I took some photos in a rain storm on my way home from my studio. Waiting until there was a car with headlights on coming the other way. W...
Oil, Board
"Deep Blue" (2024) By Hollis Dunlap, Impressionist Oil Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Hollis Dunlap's (US based) "Deep Blue" (2024) is an original, handmade impressionist oil painting that depicts a portrait of a woman in a home interior, back turned towards the viewe...
Oil, Panel
Three Chairs
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Harold Altman (American, 1924-2003) Title: Three Chairs Year: 1978 Medium: Original color lithograph Edition: Numbered 61/185 in pencil Paper: ...
Lithograph
Santa Fe The Chief Way original American railroad poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Santa Fe The Chief Way vintage railroad travel poster. Archival linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. Most of the Santa Fe Railway posters feature American Indians, but this poster features the big boss, The Chief! The poster has about a 1" white border around the entire image, the linen backing is not counted in the poster's measurement. Several of the trains were named "Chief" which includes the San Francisco Chief, Texan Chief, Kansas City Chief...
Offset
Fanasy with Flowers 148
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Fantasy with Flowers" (series of 300+ pictures) paper 59x42cm On the paper acrylic, oil pastel, felt-tip pen, ink, gold leaf, pencils, silver,mixed media. Flowers are a smile of ...
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
$917
Original Antique Large English Garden Flower Scene Oil Painting by Lucy Lockwood
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Lucy Lockwood (1875-1961) English TITLE: "The Priory Garden" SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE:110cm x 80cm inclusive of frame CONDITION: very good - a coupl...
Oil
"Roadway II" By Jim Beckner, Original Impressionist Cityscape Oil Painting
By Jim Beckner
Located in Denver, CO
Jim Beckner's (US based) "Roadway II" is an original, handmade oil painting on board that depicts a bustling downtown cityscape in motion, cars driving down the street among the brig...
Canvas, Oil
"Femme nue assise" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original soft ground etching. Catalogue reference: Delteil 12. Executed in 1906, this is a lifetime impression published in 1909 in Berlin by Cassirer for "Kunst und Kunstler...
Etching
$550Sale Price|20% Off
Impressionist Painting of Venetian Canal with Bridge and Sunlit Buildings
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Impressionist Painting of Venetian Canal with Bridge and Sunlit Buildings By Fanch Les Size: 18.25 x 15.25 inches (height x width) Oil painting on cardboard, unframed Conditio...
Oil
$3,106
Moon Night. Horizontal landscape painting, purple, blue, sky, impressionism
Located in Oslo, NO
"Moon Night" is a captivating and deeply atmospheric watercolor that evokes the quiet mystery and profound beauty of the landscape under a midnight sky. The painting uses a dramatic,...
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-Century Impressionist French view of La Madeleine Paris, France
Located in Woodbury, CT
Y. Gonez (French, mid-20th century) Flower Market at La Madeleine, Paris, ca. 1950s Oil on canvas, in a Montparnasse-style frame With bold strokes and a flourish of color, Y. Gonez ...
Canvas, Oil
Dmitri Wright - Petite Mind Meadow - Opus Eight, Painting 2024
Located in Stamford, CT
About the artist: As an American artist, Wright’s travels have taken him to paint and/or teach throughout the United States and visiting over a dozen National Park sites in addition...
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Rural Landscape, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Boris Serdyuk Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Style: Impressionism Year: 2020 Title: Rural Landscape Size: 19.5" x 27.5" ...
Canvas, Oil
"Blue cornflowers" Oil cm. 42 x 42 1998 Russian , Flowers
Located in Torino, IT
Blue ,cornflowers ,Russia ,Flowers, Published in a monographic catalogue Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015) 1937: he was born in Dneprodzerzinsk...
Canvas, Oil
Spring Field, Landscape Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism, Title: Spring Field, Size: 36" x 35" x 1.5...
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Muse, Abstract Figurative Original oil painting, one of a kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Hayk Gasparyan Work: Original oil Painting, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Cardboard, Year: 2025 Style: Abstract, Figurative Title: Abstract Muse Size: 13.5" x 17.5" x 0.1'' in...
Oil, Cardboard
$4,500
Street Scene Oil Painting Circa 1930s Albert Abramovitz WPA Artist Mexican Town
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed lower right Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963), born in Riga, Latvia, on January 24, 1879. He studied art at the Imperial Art School in Odessa and at the Grande Chaumière in P...
Canvas, Oil
$4,235
Frosty Evening. Horizontal landscape painting, ice, snow, river, sunset
Located in Oslo, NO
"Frosty Evening" is an exquisite and deeply atmospheric watercolor that captures the icy stillness and profound beauty of a winter dusk. The painting evokes the crisp air and the qui...
Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century Chianti with Orange Still Life
By Claude Buck
Located in Soquel, CA
Still life "Wine with Orange" by Claude (Charles Claude) Buck (1890-1974). Signed lower left. Artist's notes and color scheme on verso. Displayed in rustic giltwood frame. Image, 14"...
Masonite, Oil
$1,344Sale Price|20% Off
Bowling on the Green (from the Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington)
Located in Soquel, CA
Bowling on the Green (from the Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington) 'Bowling on the Green', by printmaker Frederick Childe Hassam, depicts George Washington and friends lawn b...
Ink, Etching, Laid Paper
Antique Paris Modern Ballerina Studio Framed Modernist Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist ballerina portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modernist wood molding. Excellent condit...
Oil, Board
Landscape with Farm House in Winter
By Charles Frederick Surendorf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Farm House in Winter" c.1950, is a oil painting on hardboard by noted California artist Charles Frederick Surendorf, 1906-1979. It is signed at the lower...
Oil
"Red Cliffs" by Tim Deibler, Colorado landscape
By Tim Deibler
Located in Denver, CO
"Red Cliffs" by Tim Deibler (US based) is an original oil painting that depicts a Colorado landscape of sunlit cliffs. Tim Deibler has had a life-long passion for art. From his ear...
Oil
Original 'Killers From Space', US 1-sheet 1954 vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
"Killers from Space", Original vintage theater linen backed with original fold marks restored vintage movie poster. Very good to excellent condition and ready to frame. RKO Pictures. NSS 54/76 Killers From Space, the 1954 W. Lee Wilder giant-insect-alien science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("Earth Attacked!"; "Astounding drama as bulb-eyed men invade Earth from flying saucers! ... The Last Word In Science-Fiction Sensation!"; "The last word in science-fiction thrills!"; "See the space killers plan to wipe out the human race! See strange monsters, flying saucers, giant creatures... SENSATIONAL!"; "Attack by monsters from another planet!"; "INVASION from another planet!"; "Staggering scenes, astounding sensations... As bulb-eyed monsters in flying saucers attack earth! An astounding science-fiction thrill!"; "From a story by Myles Wilder") starring Peter Graves...
Offset
17th Century Ships, Nautical, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Alexander Litvinov Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Style: Classic Figurative Year: 2009 Title: 17th Century Ships Size: 19...
Canvas, Oil
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
Bison in the Aspen Forest - Western Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Bison in the Birch Forest - Western Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Board Lush Western landscape by California Plein Aire artist Nick White (American, 1943-2009). A large white and yellow aspen...
Acrylic, Board
$377Sale Price|20% Off
British Impressionist Watercolor of Coastal Harbour with Sailboats
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of Coastal Harbour with Sailboats by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 11.5 x 15 in...
Watercolor
$1,052Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage Portrait Portrait of Fashionable Woman Pink Shawl 1920's French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman in Pink by Robert SImon (French 1888-1961) stamped with the artists studio stamp verso inscribed label with the date 1929 oil on board, unframed Board : 16 x 13 i...
Oil
$469Sale Price|20% Off
Sailing Boats Moored on the Thames with View to Richmond Bridge Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Sailing Boats Moored on the Thames with View to Richmond Bridge Watercolour By Tony Herbert (1927-2024) Signed: Lower left corner Medium: Watercolor on paper, unframed Size: 9...
Watercolor
$16,000
"Breathe Deep II" contemporary realist landscape oil painting, California cliffs
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Breathe Deep II" is a contemporary realist landscape oil painting of California cliffs painted en plein air. Blue-green waves roll in toward the foreground filled with sand-colored...
Linen, Oil
"Blazing Trail" (2022) By Judd Mercer, Original Oil Painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Blazing Trail" (2022) is an original handmade oil painting depicting a creek leading up to a house during sunset. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a co...
Canvas, Oil
1920 Watercolor of Honolulu Harbor from Hillside Hawai'i by Arthur Merton Hazard
By Arthur Merton Hazard
Located in Soquel, CA
1920 Honolulu Harbor from Hillside by Arthur Merton Hazard. A luminous early 20th-century watercolor by Arthur Hazard (American, 1872-1930) depicting a sweeping hillside view over H...
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$404Sale Price|20% Off
British Impressionist Watercolor of Countryside Cottage with Rolling Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of Countryside Cottage with Rolling Fields by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 10....
Watercolor
Harbor Scene with Boats & Fishermen
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist oil painting of a New England harbor scene with boats and fishermen by American artist Harry Aiken Vincent (1867-1933). Vincent was born in Chicago, Illinois, an...
Canvas, Oil
Le Puits - 20th Century French Impressionist Village Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1930's French impressionist oil on board depicting a village water well by Jeanne Lauvernay-Pettitjean, the wife of Edmond Marie Pettitjean. The work is very atmospheric...
Oil, Board
Pointe de Kerroux, morning light, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Presqu'île de Crozon, Brittany, France. In this oil painting, I sought to capture the invigorating and intrepid essence of the ocean and translate the natural light and changing ...
Oil
$3,011Sale Price|20% Off
Boulevard in winter. Old Maryino
By Simon Kozhin
Located in Zofingen, AG
There is a lot of snow on the boulevard in winter. He wraps the trees like a duvet. Frosty air creates sfumato by plunging and blurring objects in space. Converging colors and tones ...
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
"French Quarter Scene" - 20th Century Framed New Orleans Watercolor Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
While his name is not as well-known as certain other classic New Orleans artists, Arnold Turtle is highly regarded and his work is prized by connoisseurs...
Watercolor
$609Sale Price|20% Off
Colourful Impressionist Harbour with Lighthouse Boats and Reflections at Dusk
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Colourful Impressionist Harbour with Lighthouse Boats and Reflections at Dusk By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches (height x width) Oil painting on cardboard, u...
Oil
L' Avant-Port de Concarneau. Oil painting, Impressionist, Framed, signed F Gueho
Located in St. Albans, GB
Francois Gueho (1881 - 1952) Signed bottom right Board Size: 11 x 16" (28 x 41cm) Outside Frame Size: 17 x 22" (43 x 56cm) Oil on Board. Fully inscribed and titled on the reverse F...
Oil
Yellow and Blue, Flowers, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Alex Kalenyuk Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on canvas Year: 2018 Style: Impressionism Title: Yellow and Blue, Size: 39.5" x 47"...
Canvas, Oil
$464Sale Price|20% Off
French Coastal Landscape with White Cottage and Sailboat Under a Dark Sky
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Coastal Landscape with White Cottage and Sailboat Under a Dark Sky By Fanch Lel Size: 6.75 x 10.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on cardboard, unframed Condition:...
Oil