Impressionism, a topographical reconstruction

Locations

Where did the impressionists paint and live?

Armand Guillaumin, 5IE-1880-70, La Marne à Ivry =? 1880ca, Ivry, the pointe, 55x66, A2006/02/08 (iR2;iR11;R2,p311) — Armand Guillaumin, 5IE-1880-70, La Marne à Ivry =? 1880ca, Ivry, the pointe, 55×66, A2006/02/08 (iR2;iR11;R2,p311)

Alfred Sisley: 1884, SDbl, CR512=CCPP566, Les coteaux de la Celle-sous-Moret, vus de Saint-Mammès, 54x73, A2012/02/08 (iR10;iRx;iR14;R129,no512;R396,no566) Provenance: Faure; 1900/03/01 Durand-Ruel. Expos: GP1897-8; London-GG-1905-297; Manchester-1907-178. — Alfred Sisley: 1884, SDbl, CR512=CCPP566, Les coteaux de la Celle-sous-Moret, vus de Saint-Mammès, 54×73, A2012/02/08 (iR10;iRx;iR14;R129,no512;R396,no566) Provenance: Faure; 1900/03/01 Durand-Ruel. Expos: GP1897-8; London-GG-1905-297; Manchester-1907-178.

Introduction:
Where did the impressionists paint and live? Typical for the Impressionists is that they painted en-plein-air, namely in the surroundings of where they lived. In the menu you will find an alphabetical list of locations where the partakers of the ‘impressionist’ expositions and related painters did paint and live.

Claude Monet: 1875, SDbr, CR353, Winter effect at Argenteuil, 59x80, private (iR10;iR64;R22,no353) Provenance: 1875/01 Rouart; MJ1912/12/09-254 (R45,p105+32+++). Expo: =11LE-1904-353 — Claude Monet: 1875, SDbr, CR353, Winter effect at Argenteuil, 59×80, private (iR10;iR64;R22,no353) Provenance: 1875/01 Rouart; MJ1912/12/09-254 (R45,p105+32+++). Expo: =11LE-1904-353

Gustave Caillebotte: 1893ca, Sbr, 1CR450=2CR478, The Argenteuil bridge, 61x55, A1987/11/10 (iR2;iR15;R102,no478;R101,no450) Expo + provenance: DR1894-16 -> Murat; Eugène Blot; HD1933/06/02-45. — Gustave Caillebotte: 1893ca, Sbr, 1CR450=2CR478, The Argenteuil bridge, 61×55, A1987/11/10 (iR2;iR15;R102,no478;R101,no450) Expo + provenance: DR1894-16 -> Murat; Eugène Blot; HD1933/06/02-45.

Overviews:
This website also renders some overviews of locations where the partakers of the ‘impressionist’ expositions and related painters did paint and live.
The page on the regions of France renders an overall overview.
Many of the impressionists did live and paint in Paris for a longer or shorter period.
Not only the Barbizon painters, but also the impressionists painted in the surroundings of the Fontainebleau forest.
Painters from the school of Pontoise did paint along the river Oise and it’s surroundings.
Many of the impressionists often depicted the Seine, from the confluence with the Marne just east of Paris till the estuary in Le Havre.
Many of the impressionists painted along the Normandy coast.
Many of the impressionists and related artists painted on the Brittany penninsula.
More later on the impressionists and related artists painted along the mediterranean sea.
Sometimes the impressionists did paint along the Atlantic coast.

Auguste Renoir: 1867-68, Sbr, 1F27=2CR111, The Pont des Arts (and the Institut de France), 62x102, NSM Los Angeles (iRx;R30=R193=R190,no27;R185,no111;R31,p181;R3,p53;R1,p167;M43) Provenance: 1872/03/31 Durand-Ruel (200fr). Expo: 5SFA-London-1872-37. — Auguste Renoir: 1867-68, Sbr, 1F27=2CR111, The Pont des Arts (and the Institut de France), 62×102, NSM Los Angeles (iRx;R30=R193=R190,no27;R185,no111;R31,p181;R3,p53;R1,p167;M43) Provenance: 1872/03/31 Durand-Ruel (200fr). Expo: 5SFA-London-1872-37.

Camille Pissarro, 7IE-1882-113, La moisson. Maybe??: CCP360, 1874, Harvesting potatoes, Pontoise, 33x41, private (iR10;iR94;aR1;iR6;R116,CCP360;R2,p394) — Camille Pissarro, 7IE-1882-113, La moisson. Maybe??: CCP360, 1874, Harvesting potatoes, Pontoise, 33×41, private (iR10;iR94;aR1;iR6;R116,CCP360;R2,p394)

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