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On April 15, 1874, on boulevard des Capucines, around fifteen artists were determined to show their paintings and sell them. Although this first exhibition of the “Impressionists,” named by a mocking critic, became famous, it also gave rise to many legends. What if this “Impressionism” was just a misunderstanding? What if Monet, Renoir and Degas, Morisot and Caillebotte had little in common, or not what people think?
Lecture by Valérie Mettais, art historian and notably the author of "Histoire vivante de l’impressionnisme".
Source: paris.fr — photo: http://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/the-luncheon-1