Inventing Impressionism, which addresses the original ... A little known critic, Louis Leroy, ridiculed the style in an article, suggesting an impression to be puerile subjectivity unworthy ...
But it was one of Monet’s works—Impression, Sunrise (1872)—that cemented Impressionism’s legacy. In a review of the show in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari, critic Louis Leroy ...