Impressionism was an artistic movement that originated in France in the 1860s and 1870s. In 1874, painters including Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Armand Guillaumin, and Paul Cezanne participated in the foremost of eight individualistic Impressionist exhibitions held until 1886. They were in due course joined by Gustave Caillebotte and the American Mary Cassatt.