The Monets and Sisley’s moved on in 1878, leaving only Renoir to visit and paint in the summer. Then in 1881, Gustave Caillebotte got a property nearby, and continued to paint the river here.
Impressionism
Claude Monet and family rented a house there, and were joined by Alfred Sisley and his family. Renoir came to visit, and the three painted the river and its bridges together.
After the Paris Commune, Pissarro returned to discover most of his life’s work had been destroyed, but he and Sisley continued to paint in Louveciennes and its surrounds.
In the summer of 1869, Renoir was living at his parents’ house in Louveciennes, and Monet was living near Bougival. Together they painted the works that set out the manifesto of Impressionism.
In 1865, Bazille, Monet, Renoir, Sisley and CĂ©zanne started painting outdoors in front of the motif in the forest, and so Impressionism began.
Matching views painted by Pissarro and CĂ©zanne of the CĂ´te des Boeufs, a rainbow, the village in winter snow, and Pissarro’s gradual change to Pointillism.
From Pissarro’s early realist landscapes of 1867, the landscapes of a forgotten Impressionist, to the first outdoor paintings of Paul CĂ©zanne made alongside Pissarro’s easel.
A quick oil sketch portrait of the young Renoir, his Summer Scene on the bank of the River Lez, his studio with a meaningful choice of paintings hanging, then sudden death in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
The early career and success at the Salon of the figurative Impressionist whose figures in a landscape were promising so much.
To commemorate the centenary of his death. Early work with the Nordic Impressionists in Skagen, a sick girl that influenced Munch, sailors and self-portraits.
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