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Claude Monet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Edgar Degas
Gustave Caillebotte
Mary Cassatt
Camille Pissarro
Berthe Morisot
Alfred Sisley
En Plein Air | En Plein Air is the act of painting outdoors. It emerged during the 19th century, and explains the sketch-like quality of the Impressionists' works, as they tried to quickly capture what they saw at a specific place and time.
En Plein Air
Painting outdoors
Quick sketch-like style
Capture the effects of natural light
Not En Plein Air
Painting indoors
Finished, meticulous style
Attention to details
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872, oil on canvas, 1′ 7″ x 2′ 1″, Musée Marmottan Monet.
Claude Lorrain, Seaport at sunset, 1639, oil on canvas, 40.5 x 53.9 in., Louvre, Paris.
En Plein Air | En Plein Air is the act of painting outdoors. It emerged during the 19th century, and explains the sketch-like quality of the Impressionists' works, as they tried to quickly capture what they saw at a specific place and time.
En Plein Air
Painting outdoors
Quick sketch-like style
Capture the effects of natural light
Not En Plein Air
Painting indoors
Finished, meticulous style
Attention to details
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Monet Painting in his Garden at Argenteuil, 1873, oil on canvas, 1.6 x 2 in., Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.
Claude Lorrain, Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna, 1639, oil on canvas, 40 x 53.5 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
En Plein Air | En Plein Air is the act of painting outdoors. It emerged during the 19th century, and explains the sketch-like quality of the Impressionists' works, as they tried to quickly capture what they saw at a specific place and time.
En Plein Air
Painting outdoors
Quick sketch-like style
Capture the effects of natural light
Not En Plein Air
Painting indoors
Finished, meticulous style
Attention to details
Claude Monet, Haystacks, 1890, oil on canvas, Private Collection.
Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Apollo Guarding the Herds of Admetus and Mercury stealing them, 1645, oil on canvas, 21.6 x 17.7 in., Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome.
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