First Impressionist Exhibition
1874
Rejected by the official Salon, a group of Paris painters - Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Cezanne, Morisot - rented Nadar's photography studio on the Boulevard des Capucines and hung their own show. Critics hated it. A handful of collectors didn't. It was the first group exhibition of what would become modernism.
In context
Also in 1874 (3 other events on record)
- Barbed Wire Patented · North America · Technology
- Universal Postal Union · Europe · Politics
- Third Anglo-Ashanti Ends · Africa · War
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.