This document provides information on some of the leading French Impressionist painters including Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, and Georges Seurat. It lists many of their famous paintings and provides the dates they were active as artists. The paintings highlighted showcase the Impressionists' use of visible brushstrokes, their practice of painting outdoors to capture light at different times of day, and their scenes of modern life in 19th century France.

1. Impressionist
Painters

2. Some of the leading
French Impressionist painters include:
Claude Monet
Édouard Manet
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Edgar Degas
Georges Seurat

3. Claude Monet
1840-1926

4. Woman
with
Parasol
Claude
Monet

5. Meadow Road to Pourville
Claude Monet

6. Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet

7. Poppies in Hollow
Claude Monet

8. Farmland in Normandy
Claude Monet

9. Water Lilies 1916
Claude Monet

10. Le Pave de Chailly in the Forest
Claude Monet

11. Édouard Manet
1832-1883

12. The Lemon
Édouard Manet

13. A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Édouard Manet

14. The Railway
Édouard Manet

15. Monet Painting in his Floating Studio
Édouard Manet

16. Pierre Auguste
Renoir
1841-1919

17. Boating on the Seine
Pierre Auguste Renoir

18. Le Pont Des Arts
Pierre Auguste Renoir

19. Boating
Party
Pierre
Auguste
Renoir

20. Claude
Monet
Reading
Pierre
Auguste
Renoir

21. The
Dancer
Pierre
Auguste
Renoir

22. Lisa
with a
Parasol
Pierre
Auguste
Renoir

23. Self
Portrait
Pierre
Auguste
Renoir

24. Umbellas
Pierre
Auguste
Renoir

25. Edgar Degas
1834-1917

26. The Star
Dancer
Edgar
Degas

27. Singer
with
One
Glove
Edgar
Degas

28. Ballerina in Pink
Edgar Degas

29. The Rehearsal
Edgar Degas

30. Four Dancers
Edgar Degas

31. Dance Class at the Opera
Edgar Degas

32. Georges Seurat
1859-1891

33. Gray Weather, La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat

34. Parade de Cirque (Circus Sideshow)
Georges Seurat

35. Detail from
Circus
Sideshow
Georges
Seurat

36. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island
of La Grand Jatte - Georges Seurat