As a member of the Salon jury, he ensured the young Impressionists were accepted. He led the way in painting fruit trees in blossom, and a series of innovative nocturnes.
Impressionism
His increasingly sketchy landscapes in the 1850s were well received at the Salon, as he pioneered painting riverbanks from his studio boat.
Paintings of pre-Impressionist landscapes by Johan Jongkind, Camille Corot, Charles Daubigny, Eugène Boudin, and the young Claude Monet.
Manet’s only pupil, she exhibited regularly at the Salon, and never with the Impressionists, although her oil and pastel paintings are thoroughly Impressionist.
Fairy-tale princesses in their hennin conical hat, her half-sister modelling for Tissot, dinner with the Sisleys, Impressionist trees at dawn, white roses, and more.
His post-Impressionist religious nocturnes with limited palettes, keyhole gateways in Tangiers, and the flight into Egypt all won international acclaim.
An African-American painter who achieved international acclaim with his early Impressionist landscapes, genre paintings, and innovative religious works.
Her turning point in 1874 – rejected from the Salon, joining the first Impressionist Exhibition, and marrying Édouard Manet’s brother. How those changed art.
She started copying in the Louvre when she was 16, met Corot there, and exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1864-73, and at the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874.
Her later years, of developing her drypoint print-making, incorporating colour with aquatint, turning an oil painting into a sophisticated print, and yet more wonderful pastels.
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