Art trivia . . .

On April 1, 1867, the Paris Exposition Universelle de 1867 opened and proved to be a historic event for the 19th century art movement known as Impressionism. The exposition drew over eleven million visitors, including exhibitors and employees. This exposition was the greatest up to its time of all international expositions, both with respect to its extent and to the scope of its plan.

Paris Exposition Universelle

(1867)

It was during the 1867 Paris Expo that a plan was first suggested for a group Impressionist exhibition and as a result of that plan, the first Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris in 1874. The Impressionists managed to hold seven subsequent shows until their final show in 1886.

Édouard Manet, rejected by the same 1867 exhibition, held his own retrospective nearby and painted a panoramic cityscape, Paris Exposition Universelle de 1867, which is considered one of the founding works of Impressionism.

Exposition Universelle de Paris

Édouard Manet

1867

Most references to Impressionist painting refers to the work produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques known as Impressionism. (Impressionism also describes art created in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period.)

The central figures in the development of Impressionism in France were:

Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870)
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927)
Édouard Manet (1832-1883)
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)

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