¿Qué es el impresionismo? Ejemplos y definición del impresionismo
... impresionismo, el movimiento que cambió la historia del arte ... Este nuevo enfoque sobre la pintura se distanció de las técnicas ...
explica
“En lugar de pintar en un estudio, los impresionistas descubrieron que podían capturar los efectos momentáneos y transitorios de la luz solar trabajando rápidamente, delante de sus sujetos y al aire libre ( en plein air)”, <anchor>explica</anchor> el Tate. “Esto dio lugar a una mayor conciencia de la luz y el color, así como el patrón cambiante de la escena natural. Las pinceladas se volvieron rápidas y separadas en bloques para representar la calidad efímera de la luz”.
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# Impressionism

Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously ‘on the spot’ rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life

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Impressionism was developed by [Claude Monet](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/claude-monet-1652) and other Paris-based artists from the early 1860s. (Though the process of painting on the spot can be said to have been pioneered in Britain by [John Constable](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-constable-108) in around 1813–17 through his desire to paint nature in a realistic way).

Instead of painting in a studio, the impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by working quickly, in front of their subjects, in the open air ( [en plein air](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/plein-air)) rather than in a studio. This resulted in a greater awareness of light and colour and the shifting pattern of the natural scene. Brushwork became rapid and broken into separate dabs in order to render the fleeting quality of light.

The first group exhibition was in Paris in 1874 and included work by [Monet](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/claude-monet-1652), [Auguste Renoir](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/auguste-renoir-1828), [Edgar Degas](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edgar-degas-988) and [Paul Cezanne](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/paul-cezanne-879). The work shown was greeted with derision with Monet’s _Impression, Sunrise_ particularly singled out for ridicule and giving its name (used by critics as an insult) to the movement. Seven further exhibitions were then held at intervals until 1886.

Other core artists of impressionism were [Camille Pissarro](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/camille-pissarro-1776) and [Berthe Morisot](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/berthe-morisot-1663) with [Edgar Degas](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edgar-degas-988) and [Edouard Manet](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edouard-manet-1567) also often associated with the movement.

Although originating in France, impressionism had great influence overseas. Core [British impressionists](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/b/british-impressionism) included [Walter Richard Sickert](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/walter-richard-sickert-1941) and [Wilson Steer](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/philip-wilson-steer-1990).

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## related movements and groups

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- [![Exhibition Catalogue 'Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition', Grafton Galleries, London](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/secondpostimpressionistexhibitioncatalogueresi.width-340.jpg)\
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**Post-impressionism**\
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Post-impressionism is a term which describes the changes in impressionism from about 1886, the date of last Impressionist group show in Paris](/art/art-terms/p/post-impressionism)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_Pj8BvC5.jpg)\
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**British impressionism**\
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British impressionism describes the work of artists working in Britain in the late nineteenth-century who were influenced by the ideas of the French impressionists](/art/art-terms/b/british-impressionism)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_YFu7UZq.jpg)\
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**Neo-impressionism**\
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Neo-impressionism is the name given to the post-impressionist work of Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and their followers who, inspired by optical theory, painted using tiny adjacent dabs of primary colour to create the effect of light](/art/art-terms/n/neo-impressionism)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_c2BetFb.jpg)\
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**Glasgow School**\
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Glasgow School usually refers to the circle of artists and designers working around Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow from the mid 1890s to about 1910](/art/art-terms/g/glasgow-school)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_PFr30bx.jpg)\
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**Newlyn school**\
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The term Newlyn school refer to a group of artists who settled in Newlyn and St Ives in the late nineteenth century and whose work is characterised by an impressionistic style and subject matter drawn from scenes of rural life](/art/art-terms/n/newlyn-school)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_p5X5fFD.jpg)\
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**École des Beaux-Arts**\
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École des Beaux-Arts is a French term meaning school of fine arts](/art/art-terms/e/ecole-des-beaux-arts)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_99jbLln.jpg)\
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**New English Art Club**\
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The New English Art Club (NEAC) was founded in London in 1886 as an exhibiting society by artists influenced by impressionism and whose work was rejected by the conservative Royal Academy](/art/art-terms/n/new-english-art-club)

- [**Salon**\
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Originally the name of the official art exhibitions organised by the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture) and its successor the Academy of Fine Arts (Académie des Beaux Arts)](/art/art-terms/s/salon)


## related techniques and styles

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- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_32pOIjc.jpg)\
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**Divisionism**\
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Divisionism is a late nineteenth century painting technique that involved using tiny adjacent dabs of primary colour to create the effect of light](/art/art-terms/d/divisionism)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_jcuHANE.jpg)\
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**Complementary colours**\
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Complementary colours are pairs of colours that contrast with each other more than any other colour, and when placed side-by-side make each other look brighter](/art/art-terms/c/complementary-colours)

- [**Plein air**\
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The French term plein air means out of doors and refers to the practice of painting entire finished pictures out of doors](/art/art-terms/p/plein-air)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_w36sOEw.jpg)\
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**Naturalism**\
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Naturalism was a broad movement in the nineteenth century which represented things closer to the way we see them](/art/art-terms/n/naturalism)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_yYjOC32.jpg)\
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**Rural naturalism**\
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Nineteenth century painting movement characterized by scenes of rural life painted in a realist, often sentimentalised, manner](/art/art-terms/r/rural-naturalism)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_eM87DfI.jpg)\
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**Painterly**\
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Painterly refers to the application of paint in a 'loose' or less than controlled manner, resulting in the appearance of visible brushstrokes within the finished painting](/art/art-terms/p/painterly)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_zUSjkhO.jpg)\
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**Impasto**\
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Impasto refers to an area of thick paint or texture, in a painting](/art/art-terms/i/impasto)


## explore this term

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- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_sB9BODj.jpg)\
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**Dolly Alderton on Turner, Monet and the Thames**\
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The writer and journalist wanders along the river and explores its hidden depths](/art/artists/claude-monet-1652/dolly-alderton-on-turner-monet-and-thames)

- [![John Singer Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/carnation_1_1_1_nlUiZYU.width-340.jpg)\
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**How John Singer Sargent painted Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose**\
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Go behind-the-scenes in our conservation studio to discover the artist's technique](/art/artworks/sargent-carnation-lily-lily-rose-n01615/how-john-singer-sargent-painted-carnation-lily)

- [![Claude Monet](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/thumbnail_tk_2020_mar_impressionism_flip_qGbyR.width-340.jpg)\
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**Impressionism**\
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Bright colours, bold brushstrokes and a rebellious spirit! Find out more about the impressionist painters](/kids/explore/what-is/impressionism)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_cK1LuiA.jpg)](/tate-etc/issue-3-spring-2005/river-dreams)

[River of dreams](/tate-etc/issue-3-spring-2005/river-dreams)

[**River of dreams**\
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Patrick Keiller\
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John House](/tate-etc/issue-3-spring-2005/river-dreams)

[River of dreams](/tate-etc/issue-3-spring-2005/river-dreams)

[When the seventeenth-century diarist John Evelyn described London as a ‘Hellish and dismall Cloud of SEA-COALE’, he was one among many affected by the city’s air. Despite this, many artists, photographers and writers have been drawn to the River Thames, depicting it as both beautiful and terrible. To coincide with the](/tate-etc/issue-3-spring-2005/river-dreams)_Turner Whistler Monet_ exhibition at Tate Britain, art historian John House and filmmaker Patrick Keiller talk about how London’s light has had an impact on the depiction of its river


## selected artists in the collection

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- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_b6GieYU.jpg)](/art/artists/berthe-morisot-1663)





## [Berthe Morisot](/art/artists/berthe-morisot-1663)



1841–1895

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_Y6WYOVD.jpg)](/art/artists/auguste-renoir-1828)





## [Auguste Renoir](/art/artists/auguste-renoir-1828)



1841–1919

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_FVQJY08.jpg)](/art/artists/edouard-manet-1567)





## [Edouard Manet](/art/artists/edouard-manet-1567)



1832–1883

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_ErN7RUu.jpg)](/art/artists/jean-louis-forain-1103)





## [Jean-Louis Forain](/art/artists/jean-louis-forain-1103)



1852–1931

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_InqpMeK.jpg)](/art/artists/armand-guillaumin-1228)





## [Armand Guillaumin](/art/artists/armand-guillaumin-1228)



1841–1927

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_jCp1asd.jpg)](/art/artists/edgar-degas-988)





## [Edgar Degas](/art/artists/edgar-degas-988)



1834–1917

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_SVJpCwR.jpg)](/art/artists/paul-cezanne-879)





## [Paul Cezanne](/art/artists/paul-cezanne-879)



1839–1906

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_sdaaTDY.jpg)](/art/artists/walter-richard-sickert-1941)





## [Walter Richard Sickert](/art/artists/walter-richard-sickert-1941)



1860–1942

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_QqdhBip.jpg)](/art/artists/philip-wilson-steer-1990)





## [Philip Wilson Steer](/art/artists/philip-wilson-steer-1990)



1860–1942

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_CnH5fQZ.jpg)](/art/artists/claude-monet-1652)





## [Claude Monet](/art/artists/claude-monet-1652)



1840–1926

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_Z91HEy8.jpg)](/art/artists/alfred-sisley-1948)





## [Alfred Sisley](/art/artists/alfred-sisley-1948)



1839–1899


## selected artworks in the collection

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- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_b6GieYU.jpg)\
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**Girl on a Divan** Berthe Morisot\
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c.1885](/art/artworks/morisot-girl-on-a-divan-t01079)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_D1I8Rsk.jpg)\
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**Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando** Edgar Degas\
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1879](/art/artworks/degas-miss-lala-at-the-cirque-fernando-n04710)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_ErN7RUu.jpg)\
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**The Tub** Jean-Louis Forain\
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c.1886–7](/art/artworks/forain-the-tub-n05294)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_m4hoY3f.jpg)\
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**Poplars on the Epte** Claude Monet\
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1891](/art/artworks/monet-poplars-on-the-epte-n04183)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_FVQJY08.jpg)\
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**Woman with a Cat** Edouard Manet\
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c.1880](/art/artworks/manet-woman-with-a-cat-n03295)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_Y6WYOVD.jpg)\
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**Peaches and Almonds** Auguste Renoir\
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1901](/art/artworks/renoir-peaches-and-almonds-t03574)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_InqpMeK.jpg)\
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**Moret-sur-Loing** Armand Guillaumin\
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1902](/art/artworks/guillaumin-moret-sur-loing-n04824)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_EhYgKFs.jpg)\
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**Portrait of Felix Pissarro** Camille Pissarro\
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1881](/art/artworks/pissarro-portrait-of-felix-pissarro-n05574)


## impressionism at tate

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- [![​Claude Monet Houses of Parliament c.1900 Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA)](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/id_131_1_ilte6N0.width-340.jpg)\
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**Impressionists in London**\
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The story of the artists who fled to Britain to escape war in France](/whats-on/tate-britain/ey-exhibition-impressionists-london)

- [**Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours**\
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Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours past exhibition at Tate Britain](/whats-on/tate-britain/paul-cezanne-exhibition-watercolours)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_spMii3M.jpg)\
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**Paintings by Cézanne**\
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Paintings by Cézanne: past Tate Britain exhibition](/whats-on/tate-britain/paintings-cezanne)

- [![Edgar Degas L'Absinthe 1875-6 Oil on canvas](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/degas_labsinthe_0.width-340.jpg)\
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**Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec**\
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Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec, past exhibition at Tate Britain during 2005 to 2006](/whats-on/tate-britain/degas-sickert-and-toulouse-lautrec)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_jCp1asd.jpg)\
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**Degas: Images of women**\
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Degas: Images of women: past Tate Liverpool exhibition](/whats-on/tate-liverpool/degas-images-women)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_m4hoY3f.jpg)\
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**Claude Monet**\
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Claude Monet: past Tate Britain exhibition](/whats-on/tate-britain/claude-monet)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_wyd8DI1.jpg)\
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**Oil Paintings by Camille Pissarro**\
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Oil Paintings by Camille Pissarro: past Tate Britain exhibition](/whats-on/tate-britain/oil-paintings-camille-pissarro)

- [![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_Y6WYOVD.jpg)\
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**Renoir**\
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Renoir: past Tate Britain exhibition](/whats-on/tate-britain/renoir)


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