Impressionism

Claude Monet

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Edgar Degas

Gustave Caillebotte

Mary Cassatt

Camille Pissarro

Berthe Morisot

Alfred Sisley

Industrial Revolution | The 18th and 19th centuries were periods of transitioning to new manufacturing processes, where hand production and small family businesses were replaced by machines and large factories. Everyday life was significantly impacted by these changes, many of which were captured by the Impressionists.

Handloom weaving in 1747, from William Hogarth's Industry and Idleness.

Festival of Calais (1848) - Priests bless the railway engine, L'Illustration, Journal Universel (1848-9 volume).

Machine works of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz, Germany, 1868.

Claude Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare (or Interior View of the Gare Saint-Lazare, the Auteuil Line), 1877, oil on canvas, 75 x 104 cm (Musée d’Orsay).

England, 1747.