Sentences with phrase «soleil levant»

Louis Leroy had taken his lead from one of Claude Monet's pictures, entitled: «Impression, Sunrise» (Impression, Soleil Levant).

[1][2] The term «Impressionism» is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.