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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$550
Still Life with White Pitcher and Apple. Warm earthy palette, impressionist art
Located in Oslo, NO
This original oil painting on canvas presents a quiet still life with a white ceramic pitcher, a small glass vase with delicate branches, and a single apple placed on a warm-toned ta...
Canvas, Oil
$3,960Sale Price|20% Off
American Impressionist Interior of the artists studio
By Marion Huse
Located in Woodbury, CT
A printmaker, painter, and commercial artist, Marion Huse created work that ranged from realism to abstraction and included portraits, figure subjects, landscapes, and floral still l...
Oil, Canvas
"Overlooking The Delaware" Upper Bucks County PA Pastoral Landscape Scene
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful Impressionist summer pastoral scene of a colorful quaint home and barn in a green pastoral landscape. Willet has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic wa...
Oil, Board
For the first time I see myself so clearly
Located in Zofingen, AG
ABOUT THE ARTWORK The painting "For the first time I see myself so clearly" from the “Inner Garden Series” reveals the profound process of self-identification, where a person gains t...
Canvas, Acrylic
Afternoon Interlude-Hand Embellished Giclee Limited Edition with Frame
Located in Atlanta, GA
Beautiful hand-embellished giclee print number 7/145. Stephen Charles Shortridge, the artist, may be more familiar to you as an actor. For fifteen years, he has sold you such produ...
Giclée, Oil
$5,800
Western Royalty impressionistic horse original painting done in blue and gold
Located in Belgrade, MT
This is a large scale original Painting by Kirsten Kainz. It is painted in a western Impressionism style featuring a bold confident horse seen at peace with its environment. The pai...
Acrylic
$1,524Sale Price|20% Off
Classic Jaguar Motor Racing Action Scene Original 1960's Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jaguar Motor Racing Sylvia Smith (British 20th century). signed and dated Jul. 65' oil on canvas, framed framed: 28.5 x 34.5 inches canvas: 24 x 30 inches provenance: private collec...
Oil, Canvas
$2,000
"Brunch at Tartine" NYC Impressionistic Plein Air Scene Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts an impressionistic scene of Brunch at Tartine in New York City. Figures are seated having Brunch with drinks in hand on this su...
Oil, Canvas
"Venice Canal"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This painting depicts a peaceful, gentle landscape of a mountain village. In the foreground is a small house with a reddish-brown roof and light, almost sandy walls. Nearby grow tall...
Canvas, Oil
Sunny Valley Landscape Impressionism Original Oil Painting
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Alexander Shandor Title: Sunny Valley Medium: Oil on Hardboard Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 20 x 22" x 0.2" inch (51 x 56x 1cm) Presentation: Unframed, Type:...
Canvas, Oil
$900
The Gossips (Nassau Bahamas Tropical Porch Landscape Painting w/ Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
William Cantwell, b. 1947. The Gossips, Nassau Bahamas, ca. 1990. Oil on masonite panel measuring 8 x 10 inches. Signed by the artist, lower left. Unframed. Born 1947, Philadel...
Masonite, Oil
A Quiet Presence
Located in Zofingen, AG
A Quiet Presence is part of the Modern Muses series, where everyday gestures and intimate moments become spaces of quiet reflection. The faceless figure sits relaxed in a chair, hold...
Canvas, Acrylic
$636Sale Price|20% Off
Path to the Ocean - Pacific Coast - Point Lobos Seascape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Path to the Ocean - Pacific Coast Seascape in Oil on Canvas Gorgeous seascape of Big Sur coast by California artist Kathleen Murray (American, b. 1958). The viewer stands at a path ...
Canvas, Oil
Village Market Scene, Impressionist Street Life Oil Painting
By Cesare Ciani
Located in Genève, GE
Signed "Ciani" in the lower left corner. This lively street scene captures the bustle of a village market day, where townspeople gather, converse, and conduct daily business amid ho...
Oil, Wood Panel
Beautiful Seascape and Sand Dune Painting by A.H. Nordberg
Located in New York, NY
A.H. Nordberg (Swedish-American) Untitled, 20th Century Oil on canvas 24 x 36 in. Framed: 28 x 39 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. Signed lower left A.H. Nordberg was a known Swedish painter who was...
Canvas, Oil
"Still life with flowers"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A cool, luminous palette distinguishes this broad floral arrangement, centred on a rounded blue- green vase set across a reflective turquoise surface. Yellow and white blossoms form ...
Canvas, Oil
"Villa d'été"
By Elina Bilous
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Every year summer comes and changes the rhythm, distracting us with aromas and fragrances from our usual day. We go to the city or to the dacha or to our friends and there we live by...
Canvas, Oil
Summer Field, landscape, 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 Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Summer Field, Size: 30" x 56" x ...
Canvas, Oil
$256Sale Price|20% Off
English Countryside Oil Painting, Impressionist, 21st Century, 24x18"
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Countryside, Landscape, Oil Painting by Pamela Cawley, British 20th century oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 18 inches Stun...
Oil
$617Sale Price|20% Off
French Impressionist Oil Painting of Two Women at the Beach
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Two Women at the Beach By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition:...
Oil
$4,500
"Paris, La Seine & The Eiffel Tower" (2024) By C.W. Mundy, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
C.W. Mundy's "Paris, La Seine & The Eiffel Tower" (2024) is an original, handmade oil painting of Paris, with the Eiffel tower out of focus in the distance. About the Artist: C.W....
Oil
$17,600
"Dahlias and Zinnias" Still Life Oil Painting, Impressionist Style, 2025, Framed
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by Contemporary English painter Amy Florence (b. 1989, London). A vomposition of various flowers arranged in various vessels atop a linen-lined table. Scissors rest ...
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Rolling Hills Country Landscape Watercolour on Handmade Paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
**Title:** Mediterranean Village Hill Town Tower Mountain Watercolour on Handmade Paper **Artist:** European School, 20th century **Medium:** Watercolour on handmade paper, unframe...
Watercolor
James Kerr-Lawson (1864-1939) View of the Alhambra, Granada, oil on panel
Located in Paris, FR
James Kerr-Lawson (1864-1939) The Generaliffe seen from the Alhambra, Granada, oil on wood panel 30 x 24.5 cm Title on the Hazlitt Gallery label on the back Framed 43 x 38 cm Pro...
Oil
$1,776
Valetta Swann (1904-1973) original large 1940s MEXICAN / AMERICAN oil painting
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Valetta Swann (1904-1973) British / American TITLE: "Mexican Expansive Landscape" SIGNED: lower left MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 96cm x 70cm inclusive of frame CONDITION: ...
Oil
Porte d'Allemagne en la neige, a la Nuit, 1908-09 EDOUARD CORTES Metz, France
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
By the time a city has a double-decker tram and a railway station, its animals are supposed to have been pushed out to the edges. Here they are on the road in front of the Porte d’Al...
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Laid Paper
$780Sale Price|20% Off
Antique American Impressionist Signed Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted American impressionist seascape painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 14 by 20 inches.
Canvas, Oil
$974Sale Price|41% Off
Mediterranean Harbor Scene with Boats Spanish Impressionist Port Painting Gandia
By José Luis Checa
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Mediterranean Harbor Scene with Boats – Spanish Impressionist Port Painting, Gandia Valencia Artist: José Luis Checa (born 1950, Spain) Title: Port of Gandia, Valencia Date: circa 1...
Oil, Canvas
Impressionistic Summer Landscape with Road Painted 1889
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Johansson's "Summer Landscape with Road" is an exquisite landscape that encapsulates the serene beauty of the Swedish countryside. Painted in 1889, the same year Johansson showcased his work at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, one can't help but wonder if this very painting was among those displayed at the fair. "Summer Landscape with Road" offers a glimpse into the idyllic Swedish countryside through its masterful depiction. The scene is bathed in the distinctive light of the sun positioned at 30 degrees north-northwest, a unique aspect of Johansson's artworks. The viewer's eye is drawn along a winding dirt road that meanders through a tranquil pastoral landscape. Birch trees, with their white bark and tender green leaves, stand tall and sway gently, marking the passage toward a distant homestead nestled beside a calm lake. The rustic wooden fences and the clear sky, dotted with soft, billowing clouds, evoke a sense of peaceful solitude. Johansson's meticulous attention to detail and colour is evident in every brushstroke, from the lush greenery to the soft, earthy path leading to the horizon. The artist's signature use of light not only highlights the natural beauty of the North but also enhances the sense of depth and realism in the painting. Johansson's early works, such as this one, are exceedingly rare, making "Summer Landscape with Road" not only a visual delight but also a collector's gem. The painting's magnificent gold frame enhances the bright, vivid colours of the small-format artwork, creating an impactful presence. Carl Johansson's blue impressionistic depictions of Northern Sweden earned him the nickname "Ultramarine Johansson", and his paintings are celebrated in prestigious collections, including the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Kalmar Art Museum, and the municipality of Hudiksvall. oil on canvas signed and dated Carl Johansson . 89 . unframed 27 x 39 cm framed 41,5 x 53 cm Provenance: The previous owner bought it in 1988 at Åmells Stockholm...
Canvas, Oil
$2,500
"At the Race" Impressionist Horse Race Scene Oil Painting on Canvas & Gold Frame
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
A dynamic oil painting depicting a high energy horse race with abstract details and bursts of energy showcased with use of fast brush work and thick impasto oil paint. Jockeys, weari...
Canvas, Oil
"Moab Plateaus" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Shingler's (NC based) "Moab Plateaus" is an oil painting that depicts the vast desert dotted with grasses leading to the towering plateaus of Moab...
Oil, Board
$6,764
Fine 1920's English Aristocratic Portrait Boy in Yellow Jumper with Hunting Crop
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Boy in a Yellow Jumper in a Landscape By Harry Dixon (1861–1942) Medium: Oil on canvas Signature: Signed by the artist Dimensions: 91.5 x 71 cm (36 x 28 inche...
Canvas, Oil
Music Lesson, Judaica Painting, Shtetl Life
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica Subject: People Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States Dimensions: 40" x 30 1/4" Chaim Goldberg -- born in the Polish shtetl of Kazimierz Dolny Chaim Gol...
Canvas, Oil
$431Sale Price|20% Off
Autumnal Countryside Landscape, Impressionist, Signed Huge Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Countryside Landscape, Impressionist, Signed Oil Painting by Pamela Cawley, British 20th century Signed on the lower right hand corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 26 x ...
Oil
"Poggio alle Mura" American Impressionist landscape of Tuscan countryside
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Poggio alle Mura" American Impressionist landscape of Tuscan countryside. Painted en plein air at a vineyard in Siena, a beautiful sunny day enchants the verdures natural vibrance....
Oil, Panel
$19,000
"Cloudy Sunset at Dering Harbor" impressionist painting of boat on the water
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A large landscape painting featuring a boat pulled up on the shore of Dering Harbor. The sky is an intriguing shade of chartreuse that makes the orangey-...
Linen, Oil
$1,200
River Side Landscape Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahram Meliqsetyan Title: River Side Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 12" x 16" x 0.8" inch (30 x 40 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery W...
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Vintage American Impressionist Landscape Signed Giltwood Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American impressionist flower landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 36 by 46 inches overall, and 30 by 40 painting alone. Handsomely framed in wide giltw...
Canvas, Oil
Spring Awakening Impressionism Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Alexander Shandor Title: Spring Awakening Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 22" x 33.5" x 1" inch (55x 85 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gall...
Canvas, Oil
"Autumn Fully Present" Oil Painting
By Deb Komitor
Located in Denver, CO
Deb Komitor's (US based) "Autumn Fully Present" is an oil painting that depicts a dense thicket with recently fallen orange and yellow leaves carpeting the forest floor Bio/artist s...
Oil
$3,217Sale Price|35% Off
Impressionist view of people in St. Marks Square in Venice
By Pam Masco
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Impressionist view of St. Marks Square, Venice. Pam Masco was an American from Massachusetts, and a graduate of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1976). She was married to the English artist John Heseltine. Her work is in well-known private and corporate collections and has been shown at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Watercolour Society and other London Galleries as well as in the Provinces. She travelled throughout the U.S.A. and Europe and painted American and European subjects, portraits, landscape and figure compositions, still life and interiors. From 1978 she was involved in drawing, painting, technical painting courses, watercolour and graphic design. She illustrated for major British and American publishers until 1988. Authors include Bruce Chatwin...
Canvas, Oil
Hope, Sculpture, Hydro Stone, Dust Marble Handmade by Garo, One of a kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: (Garo) Karapet Balakeseryan Medium: Hydro Stone, Dust Marble, One of a Kind Year: 2023 Style: Classic, Impressionism, Subject: Hope, ...
Stone
Low Tide on the Bar, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The pastel artwork captures a tidal river at low tide on a quiet summer morning. A solitary sailboat rests on the sandbar. Low-hanging clouds glow with rosy hue...
Pastel
Near the River Landscape Impressionism Original Oil Painting
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Alexander Shandor Title: Near the River Medium: Oil on Cardboard Year: 2016 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 13" x 14" x 0.2" inch ( 33 x 36 x 1cm) Presentation: Unframed, ...
Canvas, Oil
Craig Mooney, "Open Sky" 38x38 Green Landscape Red Barn Painting on Canvas
By Craig Mooney
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Open Sky", is a 38x38 spring or summer landscape oil painting on canvas by artist Craig Mooney featuring a view of a vast lush green field and blue sky with billowing cl...
Canvas, Oil
Julien Stappers Original Antique Belgian Floral Still Life Oil Painting, Framed
Located in Gavere, BE
An exceptional signed Belgian Impressionist still life by Julien Stappers (1875–1960), created circa 1920. This richly atmospheric oil painting presents an abundant bouquet of red, pink, yellow and cream-coloured flowers arranged in a luminous green Chinese vase...
Gold Leaf
$500Sale Price|20% Off
Misty Pond in San Antonio Texas Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Misty Pond in San Antonio Texas Original Oil on Canvas Flowers by a pond by Texas artist Aurora "Ora" V. Hererra (American, 1928-2008). The painting de...
Oil, Stretcher Bars, Canvas
Wilhelm Hempfing, "Cherry Blossoms on Bergstraße, signed, German Impressionist
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Wilhelm Hempfing Schönau 1886 – 1948 Karlsruhe Cherry Tree in Bloom, Bergstraße Oil on canvas Signed lower left, titled on the stretcher Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm Frame: 48.5 x 58.5 c...
Oil
$1,000
Performance Figurative Abstract Artwork Original oil painting, one of a kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Figurative Surrealism, Oil painting portrait, one of a kind, buy painting, artwork, Los Angeles gallery, best artist, Artist: Hayk Gasparyan Work: Original oil Painting, One of a K...
Canvas, Oil
L'Éternel Printemps by Auguste Rodin
Located in New Orleans, LA
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917 French L'Éternel Printemps (The Eternal Spring) Bronze with brown patina Signed "Rodin" (on base), with Barbedienne foundry mark Perhaps one of the most w...
Bronze
$360Sale Price|20% Off
Finely Detailed British Watercolor Topographical of a Garden at Madras in India
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 10 inches (height) x 14 inches (width) Signed: Yes Condition: Sound condition Provenance: Private collection Description: This elegant w...
Watercolor
"Boston Square" Arthur Clifton Goodwin, Impressionist Boston Urban Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Clifton Goodwin Boston Square Signed lower left Oil on canvas 30 x 36 inches A painter especially known for street and waterfront scenes of Boston, Arthur Clifton Goodwin di...
Canvas, Oil
"053 - Plein Air-Aurora, CO" (2022) By Judd Mercer, Gouache Painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "053 - Plein Air-Aurora, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a few trees on a hill. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a contemporary landscape painter an...
Paper, Gouache
$1,639Sale Price|20% Off
1960's Dramatic Provencal Colorful Landscape French Modernist Oil Painting
By Michel Kritz
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Provencal Landscape by Michel Kritz (French 1925-1994) oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 32 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condi...
Canvas, Oil
$1,967Sale Price|20% Off
Impressionist Nudes, Three Figures, Oil on Canvas, Mid-20th Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Impressionist Nudes, Three Figures, Oil Painting By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016) Signed by the artist on the top right hand corner of the painting Oil painting on canv...
Oil
"PALOMINO AND COLT" PAINTED FOR HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER 1963 SWEET PAINTING
Located in San Antonio, TX
Richard Schmid (1934-2021) California, Vermont, Colorado, Illinois, New Hampshire Artist Image Size: 12 x 16 Frame Size: 18 x 22 Medium: Oil on Canvas 1963. Signed "Palamino And Col...
Oil
$568Sale Price|20% Off
Pastel Sailing Boats Docked In The Town Shore French Oil Landscape Painting
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastel Boat Harbour dated 96' Signed by Fanch Lel ( French School) Framed: 10 x 12 inches Board: 8.5 x 10.5 inches Inscribed verso Oil painting on board, framed Condition: The painti...
Oil
$963Sale Price|20% Off
Impressionist Market Scene Before a Church, Lively Village Square
Located in Genève, GE
Dimensions with frame: 24,7 x 30,5 x 2 cm. Signed "Valter" in the lower right corner. A vibrant Impressionist scene capturing the energy of a bustling village market set before a su...
Oil, Wood Panel
$628Sale Price|20% Off
English School Mid 20th Century Oil Painting Staffordshire Bull Terrier Dog
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Staffordshire Bull Terrier: Champion "Fearless Red of Bandits" by Dorothy Alexandra Johnson (1902-1988) unsigned oil painting on canvas, u...
Oil
$240Sale Price|20% Off
Midday Sailing Oil on Canvas Landscape Painting, Late 20th Century
By Alex Perez
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Alex Perez was born in Santiago, Chile in 1946 and is the fourth generation of Jewish artists trained in various fields, ranging from painting to architecture. In 1977 he moved to T...
Acrylic, Oil