In a satirical 1874 review, critic Louis Leroy used this term to describe the loose, inexact manner of painting in a gallery show
[DOC] [TLE] Impressionism: Art and Modernity | Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art ... [PAR] In 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, ... 
in 1874, gave the Impressionist movement its name when the critic Louis Leroy ... 
the thick golden varnish that painters customarily used to tone down their works.