Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet

Monet's depiction of the port at Le Havre was included at the 1874 exhibition in the studio of Nadar in the Boulevard des Capucines together with artists such as Degas, Renoir and Pissarro. Louis Leroy, an art critic reviwing the exhibition, wrote that the painting was nothing more than an unfinished sketch and sarcastically named the exhibition "The Exhibition of the Impressionists". The name stuck, and today "Impression, Sunrise" is credited with being the origin of the term "Impressionism", one of the most influential artistic movements in history.