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Impression, Sunrise

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Impression, Sunrise is a small 1872 harbor view Claude Monet painted at Le Havre, showing a hazy orange sun over water rendered in loose, visible brushstrokes. Exhibited at the first independent group show the Impressionists organized in 1874, it prompted the critic Louis Leroy to write a mocking review titled Exhibition of the Impressionists that took the painting's title as proof the whole group offered mere impressions rather than finished pictures, a jab the painters then adopted as their own movement's name.

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Year Created
1872 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France 1
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Claude Monet, Artists
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)

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Painting, Art Forms

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Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
Sources
1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learningchapter on Impressionism, section on Claude Monet
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