# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published September 17, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/who-is-the-greatest-impressionist-painter*

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1. **Claude Monet** — score 1000/1000
   The painter whose Impression, Sunrise gave the movement its name.
2. **Mary Cassatt** — score 681/1000
   American painter of mothers and children who exhibited with the group in Paris.
3. **Gustave Caillebotte** — score 681/1000
   Painter of rain-slicked Paris streets and the patron who kept the group afloat.
4. **Alfred Sisley** — score 661/1000
   Landscape specialist who stayed closest to the movement's original method.
5. **Edouard Manet** — score 600/1000
   The older painter the Impressionists followed, though he never exhibited with them.
6. **Frederic Bazille** — score 529/1000
   Early member of the circle, killed in the Franco-Prussian War at 28.
7. **Federico Zandomeneghi** — score 448/1000
   Italian painter who showed in four of the Impressionist exhibitions.
8. **Camille Pissarro** — score 448/1000
   The movement's elder, and the only member in all eight of its exhibitions.
9. **Berthe Morisot** — score 448/1000
   Founding member whose interiors and garden scenes hung in the first 1874 show.
10. **Pierre-Auguste Renoir** — score 353/1000
   Impressionist of dance halls, boating parties and sunlit skin.
11. **Marie Bracquemond** — score 353/1000
   Called one of the movement's three great women painters, then largely forgotten.
12. **Eva Gonzales** — score 353/1000
   Manet's only formal student, painting in the Impressionist manner until her death at 34.
13. **Edgar Degas** — score 241/1000
   Painted rehearsal rooms and racetracks and disliked being called an Impressionist.
14. **Childe Hassam** — score 240/1000
   The leading American Impressionist, who brought the method to New England.

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