Orientalism in its late phase largely abandons stereotypical set pieces for a more accurate portrayal of architecture and daily life in the Near East.The new movement in painting, developed in the late 1860s and early 1870s by the Parisian circle around Claude Monet and Pierre-August Renoir, becomes known to the public in 1874 as Impressionism.

The movement, which influences artists in the U.S., the U.K, and other western nations, challenges the authority of the venerable Paris Salon, to whose annual exhibitions many artists, including some impressionists, continue to submit work.

By 1882, when the seventh group show is held in Paris, the major Impressionist artists, including Renoir, Bethe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, and Paul Cézanne have begun to go their separate ways, and by the end of 1885, only Monet and Armand Guillamin, to whose efforts the group owes much of its eventual recognition, are in the strict sense Impressionists.

This thread explores Western art from 1874 through 1885 and its relationship to the main arc of Impressionism, opening with the first group show and closing with the rise of the next era's Neo-Impressionist movement, led initially by Georges Seurat and his circle.

The thread contains many links to images and text concerning the works of various artists.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, from which the author has drawn some material for this thread, is a comprehensive secondary source on the lives and works of many of the period's important artists.