Representing Impressionism, there were the best known French painters whose paintings enormously influenced the history of art and set a basis for the contemporary art practices as well as new standards in painting as art media. French artists, such Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro marked the Impressionism as an art movement and set a new paradigm in painting.
On the other hand Paul Cezanne evolved his unique style.
Towards the end of 19th century, looking at the work of artists Henri Rousseau, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec we find the French school of Post Impressionism that also had an inevitable contribution to the general history of art.
Victor Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.
