Gallery Guide

Welcome to the Virtual Gallery of Impressionist Images.

Browsing the gallery rooms, you will find major themes represented by French and American Impressionist painters: cafe-concerts, peasant labor, picnics, regattas, and the ballet. Also included are seventeenth- and eighteenth-century artists who greatly influenced the Impressionists.

The gallery accompanies History of Art 362, "Impressionism and Society," a spring term course taught by Prof. Laura L. Meixner.

To view the works on display, go directly to the Exhibition Rooms (listed below).
There you will see small images of the works on display
with links to larger images and more information about each image.

Exhibition Rooms

Prints and Politics
Paris Streets
Public Spectacles
Bathers and Brothels
Interior Lives
Portraits, Figure Studies
Rural Labor, Urban Market
Transport, Trade, Technology
Coastal Views
Pastoral and Leisure
Poetry and Landscape
Van Gogh and His Sources

If you are interested in viewing other works not on display, remember that you can BROWSE or SEARCH the entire MESL image collection.

If you have questions or suggestions regarding this site please contact:
Noni Korf Vidal
via e-mail: NK11@cornell.edu
or phone: 255-3530.