Presents a collection of more than one hundred French impressionist paintings found in the Art Institute of Chicago.

This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dy

The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capit

Claude Monet is one of the most famous painters in history, and he is considered a pioneer of the Impressionist movement. What is Impressionism, and how does Mo

As this major contribution to art history shows, Impressionism was far more than a French movement that spread to other countries; rather, it was an approach to