The Mouseion · The Long Century · Impressionism

Impressionism

Painting outdoors, fast, in broken colour: Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Morisot, Degas and Cassatt caught the light of a passing moment and were mocked for it. Their first group show was in 1874. Within a generation the whole world painted this way.

Walk inThe whole museum

On the walls this month

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  Calf's Head and Ox Tongue — Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), c. 1882, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  At the Moulin Rouge — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), 1892–95, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Sandvika, Norway — Claude Monet (1840–1926), 1895, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Landscape — Jean Charles Cazin (1841–1901), c. 1895, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Mount Sainte-Victoire — Paul Cezanne (1839–1906), c. 1904, oil on fabric
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Apples and Grapes — Claude Monet (1840–1926), 1880, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Child's Bath — Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), 1893, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Red Kerchief — Claude Monet (1840–1926), c. 1868–73, oil on fabric
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Mater Dolorosa (The Virgin Mary Mourning) — Georges-Daniel de Monfreid (1856–1929), 1897, painted plaster and wood
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Seascape — Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), 1879, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Watering Place at Marly — Alfred Sisley (1839–1899), 1875, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Charing Cross Bridge, London — Claude Monet (1840–1926), 1901, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Self-Portrait — Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), 1887, Oil on artist's board, mounted on cradled panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Procession or Pardon at Perros-Guirec — Maurice Denis (1870–1943), 1891, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Spring Flowers — Claude Monet (1840–1926), 1864, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  The Loire — Alfred Sisley (1839–1899), 1896, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Boats on the Beach at Étretat — Claude Monet (1840–1926), 1885, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Laundress — Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), 1877–79, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Assumption of the Virgin — Domenico Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (1541–1614), 1577–79, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Irises — Claude Monet (1840–1926), 1914–17, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Two Sisters (On the Terrace) — Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), 1881, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Paris Street; Rainy Day — Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), 1877, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago

More of The Long Century

• Romanticism & Realism — Storms, ruins, mountains and the sublime, then a turn to the real: peasants, labourers and the people painters passed…
• After Impressionism — Van Gogh’s brushwork, Cézanne’s solid geometry, Gauguin’s flat colour, Seurat’s dots, and the dreamlike Symbolists…
• New Worlds 1900–1930 — Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and the first abstract paintings. In thirty years art broke with five…

Where the works come from

Every work in the Mouseion is a real piece, out of copyright everywhere, shown from the open collections of the museums that hold it — each label names the original’s museum and links to its page there.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access
• The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain collection
• The Cleveland Museum of Art — Open Access
• Wikimedia Commons — public-domain photographs of works held elsewhere