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Impression, Sunrise

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Oil on canvas (1872) by Claude Monet, depicting the harbor of Le Havre at dawn. Exhibited in 1874 at the first Impressionist exhibition; the title became the source of the movement's name. Held at the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.

Scholarly Significance

The work that named the Impressionist movement; Monet's depiction of Le Havre harbor at dawn.

Notes

·Exhibited at the first Impressionist exhibition (Société Anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs), 35 boulevard des Capucines, Paris, April–May 1874.
·The critic Louis Leroy used the title to mock the exhibition as 'Impressionist'; Monet and associates adopted the term.
·Stolen from the Marmottan in 1985 along with eight other works; recovered in Corsica in 1990.
·Depicts the outer harbor of Le Havre at dawn, with a small rowboat in the foreground and industrial cranes in the mist.