The impressionists..
..left us the marvellous, light-soaked shimmering visions of landscape that never seem to dim in their brilliance.
“Then there was an entire very beautiful period (I don’t say this because I myself was painting) but all the artists I then knew were truly artists, they were serious and did admirable things which have remained admirable. It was the period of the impressionists; it was the period of Manet, it was a beautiful period, they did beautiful things.”
– Mirra Alfassa, 9 April 1951
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet – The Battle of the Kearsarge and Alabama
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas: Ballet dancers rehearsing ‘The Rehearsal’, 1873-78
Camille Pisaro
Camille Pissaro : (The bridge ‘Boieldieu’ at Rouen in the rain)
Le pont Boieldieu à Rouen sous la pluie
Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley – The Chemin
Auguste Renoir
Auguste Renoir, Barges on the Seine, 1869
