The 1872 painting is thought to have started, and given its name to, the Impressionist movement. ... bobbing up and down during low tide. The best of Artnet News in your inbox.

From impressionism’s heroic decade at Argenteuil in the 1870s, ... From Monet’s painting campaign in Normandy in 1883-4, “The Needle at Etretat, Low Tide”, ...

The Impressionist art movement began Nov. 13, 1872, right around 7:35 a.m. local time. That’s the moment Claude Monet put brush to canvas to depict a hazy sunrise seen from his hotel room in Le ...

Leroy's mocking coinage of the term "impressionism" was inspired by the title that Claude Monet himself had attached to a glimmering dawnscape, Impression, Sunrise, 1872 – the painting that, to ...