Who is the greatest Impressionist painter?
Eight exhibitions, one loose group, and no agreement on who led it. Several of these painters refused the label while helping to invent it.
1Claude MonetThe painter whose Impression, Sunrise gave the movement its name.1000pts
2Mary CassattAmerican painter of mothers and children who exhibited with the group in Paris.681pts
3Gustave CaillebottePainter of rain-slicked Paris streets and the patron who kept the group afloat.681pts
4Alfred SisleyLandscape specialist who stayed closest to the movement's original method.661pts
5Edouard ManetThe older painter the Impressionists followed, though he never exhibited with them.600pts
6Frederic BazilleEarly member of the circle, killed in the Franco-Prussian War at 28.529pts
7Federico ZandomeneghiItalian painter who showed in four of the Impressionist exhibitions.448pts
8Camille PissarroThe movement's elder, and the only member in all eight of its exhibitions.448pts
9Berthe MorisotFounding member whose interiors and garden scenes hung in the first 1874 show.448pts
10Pierre-Auguste RenoirImpressionist of dance halls, boating parties and sunlit skin.353pts
11Marie BracquemondCalled one of the movement's three great women painters, then largely forgotten.353pts
12Eva GonzalesManet's only formal student, painting in the Impressionist manner until her death at 34.353pts
13Edgar DegasPainted rehearsal rooms and racetracks and disliked being called an Impressionist.241pts
14Childe HassamThe leading American Impressionist, who brought the method to New England.240pts
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Camille Pissarro was the only one of them to show in all eight Impressionist exhibitions, and Degas rejected the label while exhibiting under it: https://youpick.best/articles/monet-ranked-many-ways
