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| Édouard Manet Interior at Arcachon 1871 Clark Art Institute |
Manet painted his wife and son at Arcachon in 1871. Decades later both Matisse and Picasso would be obsessed by similar sea views through open windows. For them, as for Manet, interiors would be rendered as a series of flat planes with one or two intimate (flattened) inhabitants. The debt of 20th-century European painting to the French Impressionists of the 19th century was so great that Impressionism itself had to be convicted of excessive prettiness in order to reduce its oppressive weight. The chosen instances below (with the exception of the Toulouse-Lautrec photograph by Maurice Guibert) are preserved today at the Clark Art Institute.
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| Édouard Manet Méry Laurent Wearing a Small Toque 1882 Clark Art Institute |
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| Édouard Manet Moss Roses in a Glass Vase 1882 Clark Art Institute |
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| Pierre-Auguste Renoir Self-portrait c. 1875 Clark Art Institute |
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| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Waiting c. 1887 Clark Art Institute |
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| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Carmen c. 1884 Clark Art Institute |
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| Maurice Guibert (photographer) Toulouses-Lautrec Painting Himself c. 1891 |
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| Alfred Sisley Banks of the Seine c. 1880-81 Clark Art institute |
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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Bathers of the Borromean Isles c. 1865-70 Clark Art Institute |
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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Road by the Water c. 1865-70 Clark Art Institute |
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| Camille Pissarro Sunset 1891 Clark Art Institute |
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| Claude Monet Seascape with Approaching Storm c. 1866 Clark Art institute |