Jules Castagnary for Le Siècle wrote that the group of painters could be described by no other word beside the new term impressionists, since they rendered the "sensation evoked by the landscape" rather than the landscape.
Jules Castagnary skrev for Le Siècle, at gruppen af malere kun kunne beskrives med det nye udtryk impressionister, eftersom de gengav "den følelse der blev fremkaldt af landskabet" snarere end landskabet i sig selv.