Publisher's Synopsis
Amid the innovations of the second half of the 19th century, a new trend in painting made its way to the fore in France. From 1874 onwards, it came to be called Impressionism. Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Camille Pisarro, Alfred Sisley, Mary Cassatt, and Berthe Morisot were some of the artists who led this movement, which spread throughout Eurpoe and to the United States
