As the contemporary French historian Daniel Halévy put it, Degas “became an impoverished painter who had to earn his living and support his brothers who had become poor like himself. His choice of new ...

The international tour of The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute concludes in Houston at the MFAH. Showcasing the Clark's holdings of ...

Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Caillebotte will be in the spotlight in an exhibition at Paris' Musée d'Orsay starting on Sept. 25. By Rebecca Leffler Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus Edouard Manet - P ...

Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, looks back 150 years to its founding moment and to the darkness hidden behind ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Three years before he died in the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, the young French Impressionist Frédéric Bazille painted a remarkably fresh and lifelike portrait of his ...

Elisabeth Findlay does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

How many women impressionists can you name? If you said Mary Cassatt, give yourself a point. But beyond that? There were very few women in the impressionist boys club, and most of them have been ...

New York (CNN) — Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored ...

It was a night to remember — though if you blinked, you missed it. It took just eight minutes for an iconic Claude Monet painting to sail past the never-before-seen $100 million mark for an ...