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Tate Introductions: Impressionists Illustrations by Jaromír 99 These laugh-out-loud books have captivatedIn 1874, a French satirical magazine ran a mocking headline: Exhibition of the Impressionists. The article described a bewildered exhibition goer wiping his spectacles, thinking they are smudged, before exclaiming, in front of Camille Pissarros Hoarfrost (1873), What on earth is that? Claude Monet had included an on the spot study in the exhibition and called it Impression, Sunrise (1872). A few days later, a sympathetic critic explained, they are