The movement would take its name from a painting by Monet included in the 1874 exhibition, Impression. Sunrise, now on display at the Musée d’Orsay. A little known critic, Louis Leroy ...

But it was one of Monet’s works—Impression, Sunrise (1872)—that cemented ... transformation for the artist.” Monet started painting haystacks in the mid-1880s, about 15 years after that ...