First Impressionist Exhibition

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The First Impressionist Exhibition was an 1874 Paris show organized independently by a group of avant-garde painters—later known as the Impressionists—that marked a decisive break from the official Salon and helped launch the Impressionist movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art exhibition
historical event
associatedWithMovement Impressionism
breaksWith official Salon system
chronologicalOrderInSeries 1
country France
criticAssociated Louis Leroy
criticCoinedTerm impressionists
endDate 1874-05-15
featuresArtForm painting
printmaking
sculpture
followedBy Second Impressionist Exhibition
hasAddress 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris
hasLocation Paris
hasName First Impressionist Exhibition
Première exposition des peintres impressionnistes
hasVenue Nadar’s studio
hasYear 1874
includesWork Boulevard des Capucines
Impression, soleil levant
linked to: Impression, Sunrise

La Danseuse au bouquet
La Loge
laterRecognizedAs foundational event of modern art
marks decisive break from the official Salon
launch of the Impressionist movement
numberOfArtists 30
numberOfWorksExhibited about 165
organizedBy Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs
organizedIndependentlyOf Paris Salon
participant Adolphe-Félix Cals
Alfred Sisley
Armand Guillaumin
Auguste-Louis-Marie Ottin
Berthe Morisot
Camille Pissarro
Claude Monet
Edgar Degas
Félix Bracquemond
Henri Rouart
Jean-Baptiste-Léopold Levert
Louis Latouche
Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic
Paul Cézanne
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Stanislas Lépine
Stanislas-Henri Rouart
Zacharie Astruc
receivedInitialReception critical ridicule
hostile reviews
startDate 1874-04-15

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La Loge exhibitedAt First Impressionist Exhibition
Impressionist circle in Paris notableExhibition First Impressionist Exhibition (1874)
linked to: First Impressionist Exhibition
Second Impressionist Exhibition follows First Impressionist Exhibition
Salon of 1874 alsoKnownAs First Impressionist Exhibition
Félix Bracquemond participantIn first Impressionist exhibition
linked to: First Impressionist Exhibition
First Impressionist Exhibition hasName First Impressionist Exhibition
Boulevard des Capucines (Monet) exhibited at First Impressionist Exhibition