Paul Durand-Ruel
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Paul Durand-Ruel was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionists and the Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoi
Portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1910
"The Brothers" (Charles and Georges Durand-Ruel) by Pierre Auguste Renoir (c. 1882)
Portrait of Joseph Durand-Ruel by Pierre Auguste Renoir
Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery in 1910. Photo by Dornac
Impressionism
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Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterised by visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, unus
Impression, Sunrise, an 1872 Claude Monet oil on canvas painting now housed at Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. This painting became the source of the movement's name after Louis Leroy's 1874 article, "The Exhibition of the Impressionists", satirically implied that the painting was, at most, a sketch.
J. M. W. Turner's atmospheric work was influential on the birth of Impressionism, here The Fighting Temeraire (1839).
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876), Musée d'Orsay, one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces.
Catalogue cover from the First Impressionist Exhibition (1874)