Louis Leroy was the journalist and literary critique of the french journal Le Charivari, coining the famous word 'impressionism' in an attempt to denigrate the painters of the modern movement of his time. Such is the irony of nomenclature, that it thus was his fate that the name he gave birth to, would become the very standard of the artistic revolutionaries like Cezanne or Monet, and outdo his own. Impressionism and its fidels would a century later, uphold this name as one of the most formidable art movement in history.
It is in the middle of the Ile Saint Louis in a superb building built in 1645, very close to the Saint Louis en L'Ile church, and secured by two gates with two security systems.
It is close to the Seine River and both the Notre Dame Cathedral on Ile de La Cite and the Saint Gervais church across the Seine on the Right Bank in the Marais district.
This is a classic one bedroom apartment located on the main Street of the Ile Saint Louis between the Marais District on the Right Bank of Paris and the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank of Paris.
The term impressionist struck Leroy as an appropriate description of the loose, inexact manner of painting of Monet and several other painters in the exhibition, namely Pissarro, Morisot, and Sisley.
Leroy argued that as soon as these artists had suggested an impression of a subject by means of a few abrupt, shorthand brushstrokes, they were satisfied and stopped work.
Especially influential in their practice of painting in the open air were French painter Eugène Louis Boudin and Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, who were noted for their seascapes.
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