印象派喺歷史上幾經轉折:初頭(當時嚟講好反傳統嘅)印象派廣受法國藝術界批評,例如因為印象派畫家興畫一啲平凡、日常生活當中嘅嘢,搞到當時嘅(偏好宏大題材嘅)法國畫界覺得佢哋難登大雅之堂;不過,打後喺一眾印象派畫家嘅努力下,印象派出咗好多重要嘅技法同名作,最後得到成個歐洲藝術界承認佢哋係一個有睇頭嘅藝術流派[3][4]。而到咗廿一世紀,印象派經已成為西方藝術界嘅一個重要流派,仲影響咗世界多地嘅畫畫藝術,好似係粵港澳地區嘅嶺南畫派噉,就係結咗國畫同印象派思潮而生嘅一個畫派[5]。
Frédéric Bazille,Paysage au bord du Lez, 1870, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Alfred Sisley,Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Berthe Morisot,The Cradle, 1872, Musée d'Orsay
Armand Guillaumin,Sunset at Ivry (Soleil couchant à Ivry), 1873, Musée d'Orsay
Édouard Manet,Boating, 1874, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alfred Sisley,La Seine au Point du jour, 1877, Museum of modern art André Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre
Édouard Manet,The Plum, 1878, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Édouard Manet,A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère), 1882, Courtauld Institute of Art
Edgar Degas,After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, c. 1884–1886 (reworked between 1890 and 1900), MuMa, Le Havre
Edgar Degas,L'Absinthe, 1876, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Edgar Degas,Dancer with a Bouquet of Flowers (Star of the Ballet), 1878
Edgar Degas,Woman in the Bath, 1886, Hill–Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut
Edgar Degas,Dancers at The Bar, 1888, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Gustave Caillebotte,Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877, Art Institute of Chicago
Pierre-Auguste Renoir,Portrait of Mademoiselle Irène Cahen d'Anvers (La Petite Irène), 1880, Foundation E.G. Bührle, Zürich
Pierre-Auguste Renoir,On the Terrace, 1881, Art Institute of Chicago
Pierre-Auguste Renoir,Girl with a Hoop, 1885
Claude Monet,The Cliff at Étretat after the Storm, 1885, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Mary Cassatt,The Child's Bath (The Bath), 1893, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago
Berthe Morisot,Portrait of Mme Boursier and Her Daughter, c. 1873, Brooklyn Museum
Le Grand Canal, 1908, Claude Monet