In a satirical 1874 review, critic Louis Leroy used this term to describe the loose, inexact manner of painting in a gallery show
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Review of Impressionist Exhibition in Le Charivari Newspaper (25 April 1874) ... 
satirical term "Impressionists" to describe the unfinished-looking paintings on 
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