Editing Impressionism (section)

== Prominent Impressionists ==
The central figures in the development of Impressionism in France,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k733402z/f3.item.zoom |title=Exposition du boulevard des Capucines |lang=French |date=29 April 1874 |access-date=18 October 2018 |archive-date=9 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109181659/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k733402z/f3.item.zoom |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/divers/les_expositions_impressionnistes/187080#10938875 |title=''Les expositions impressionnistes'', Larousse |lang=French |access-date=18 October 2018 |archive-date=2 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602205003/http://larousse.fr/encyclopedie/divers/les_expositions_impressionnistes/187080#10938875 |url-status=live }}</ref> listed alphabetically, were:
* [[Frédéric Bazille]] (1841–1870), who only posthumously participated in the Impressionist exhibitions
* [[Gustave Caillebotte]] (1848–1894), who, younger than the others, joined forces with them in the mid-1870s
* [[Mary Cassatt]] (1844–1926), American-born, she lived in Paris and participated in four Impressionist exhibitions
* [[Paul Cézanne]] (1839–1906), although he later broke away from the Impressionists
* [[Edgar Degas]] (1834–1917), who despised the term ''Impressionist''
* [[Armand Guillaumin]] (1841–1927)
* [[Édouard Manet]] (1832–1883), who did not participate in any of the Impressionist exhibitions<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cole |first1=Bruce |year=1991 |title=Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism |publisher=Simon and Schuster |page=242 |isbn=0-671-74728-2}}</ref>
* [[Claude Monet]] (1840–1926), the most prolific of the Impressionists and the one who embodies their aesthetic most obviously{{sfnp|Denvir|1990|p=140}}
* [[Berthe Morisot]] (1841–1895) who participated in all Impressionist exhibitions except in 1879
* [[Camille Pissarro]] (1830–1903), who was the only artist to participate in all eight Impressionist exhibitions.{{sfnp|Rewald|1973|p=591}}
* [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]] (1841–1919), who participated in Impressionist exhibitions in 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1882
* [[Alfred Sisley]] (1839–1899)