French Impressionists - Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Boudin

The French impressionists were a group of widely diverse young artists who shared ideas and exhibited together from about 1860 to 1886. Their ideas and methods were often very different. Some were members of the group for the greater part of their working lives; others shared its enthusiasms for a comparatively short time. Their purposes and styles changed as they developed until, after their last exhibition in 1886, there was no longer enough of a common bond to hold them together.