Some of the Impressionists did paint (possibly) narrative works. But they didn’t always work out.
Degas
Conclusions: did he paint Impressions, and was he a member of the Impressionist group?
The final four and a half years of De Nittis’s career were busy, productive, and successful.
Almost forgotten today, he was technically brilliant, and a full-bore Impressionist. Here is his life and paintings to 1879.
A painter in enamel, three assorted landscape painters, and probably the most gifted artist of the whole group.
Marines painted by the grandson of one of Napoleon’s generals, and views of the Seine and its bridges.
Paintings by Delacroix are rare outside Paris. This book is catalogue to an exhibition now in Minneapolis, in 2016 due for London.
In the absence of any clearly articulated theoretical statements from the core French Impressionists, there are no obvious rules or clear criteria handed down.
Was Caillebotte a patron, collector, or painter in his own right?
His richly colourful paintings of women are reminiscent of Renoir at his best, and some of his later studies of nudes appear to owe much to the influence of Degas.
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