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Home>Exhibitions>2024>Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment

# Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment

Upcoming Exhibition

## September 8, 2024 – January 19, 2025West Building, Main Floor

How did Impressionism begin? Discover the origins of the French art movement in a new look at the radical 1874 exhibition considered the birth of modern painting.

A remarkable presentation of 130 works includes a rare reunion of many of the paintings first featured in that now-legendary exhibition. Revisit beloved paintings by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and meet their lesser-known contemporaries. See the art norms they were rebelling against and learn what political and social shifts sparked their new approach to art.

Don’t miss the unique chance to immerse yourself in the dynamic Parisian art scene of 1874—we are the only American stop for this historic exhibition.

## Explore Selected Works

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Edgar Degas, *At the Races in the Countryside / Sur le champ de courses (Les courses)*, 1869, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 1931 Purchase Fund, Photograph © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Jean-Léon Gérôme, *L’Eminence Grise*, 1873, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Susan Cornelia Warren. Photograph © 2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Claude Monet, *Impression, soleil levant*, 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Auguste Renoir, *La Loge (The Theater Box)*, 1874, oil on canvas, The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) Photo © The Courtauld 

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Zacharie Astruc, *Scène de somnambulisme*, 1871, watercolor, Collection Musée de l'Opéra de Vichy 

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Félix Bracquemond, *Le Divan (d’après Manet)*, 1867, etching, Samuel Putnam Avery Collection, Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations 

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Camille Cabaillot-Lassalle, *Le Salon de 1874*, 1874, oil on canvas, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, © Musée d’Orsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Sophie Crépy 

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Paul Cézanne, *La Maison du pendu, à Auvers-sur-Oise*, 1873, oil on canvas, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt 

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Henri Fantin-Latour, *Fleurs et objets divers*, 1874, oil on canvas, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden. Photo: Gothenburg Museum of Art / Hossein Sehatlou 

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Auguste Lançon, *Morts en ligne. La bataille de Bazeilles*, 1873, oil on canvas, Gravelotte, Musée départemental de la Guerre de 1870 & de l'Annexion. On loan from the Musée de la Princerie de Verdun. © Département de la Moselle, MdG1870&A, Rebourg 

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Berthe Morisot, *Le Berceau*, 1872, oil on canvas, Paris, Musée d'Orsay. © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt 

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Camille Pissarro, *Gelée blanche*, 1873, oil on canvas, Paris, Musée d'Orsay 

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Jules Breton, *La Falaise*, 1874, oil on canvas, Eric Weider

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Edouard Manet, *The Railway*, 1873, oil on canvas, Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer, 1956.10.1

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Auguste Renoir, *The Dancer*, 1874, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.72

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié, *Gloria Victis*, model c. 1874, cast after 1879, bronze, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1985.52.1

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Berthe Morisot, *The Harbor at Lorient*, 1869, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.48

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Berthe Morisot, *The Mother and Sister of the Artist*, 1869/1870, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.186

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Camille Pissarro, *Orchard in Bloom, Louveciennes*, 1872, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.51

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Paul Cézanne, *House of Père Lacroix*, 1873, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.102

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Eugène Boudin, *Beach House with Flags at Trouville*, c. 1865, watercolor over graphite, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.74

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Edouard Manet, *Polichinelle*, 1874, lithograph in black hand-colored with gouache and watercolor on wove paper, Gift (Partial and Promised) of Malcolm Wiener, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.65.1

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Berthe Morisot, *At the Edge of the Forest (Edma and Jeanne)*, c. 1872, watercolor and graphite on paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.18.33

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Edouard Manet, *Masked Ball at the Opera*, 1873, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer in memory of her mother-in-law, Louisine W. Havemeyer, 1982.75.1

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Eugène Boudin, *Ladies and Gentlemen on the Beach, in Two Registers*, c. 1865, watercolor over graphite, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.76

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Eugène Boudin, *Three Women at Trouville*, c. 1865, watercolor and graphite on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.142

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Edouard Manet, *Line in Front of the Butcher Shop (Queue devant la boucherie)*, 1870, etching on wove paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1950.16.100

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Edouard Manet, Lemercier & Cie, *Civil War (Guerre civile)*, 1871, lithograph on chine collé, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.5758

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Alphée Dubois, *The Arcadian Shepherds (Et in Arcadia ego) [obverse]*, 1874, gilded copper, Corcoran Collection, 2015.19.3970.a

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Félix Bracquemond, *The Road Leading to Bellevue (Le Chemin montant à Bellevue)*, 1873, etching on Japan paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1980.45.210

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Giuseppe de Nittis, *The Dancer Holoke-GO-Zen*, 1873, etching, drypoint, and roulette on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2010.7.1

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Alphée Dubois, *1874 Salon Medal for Painting to Louis Priou [reverse]*, 1874, gilded copper, Corcoran Collection, 2015.19.3970.b

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Edouard Manet, *The Barricade (La barricade)*, 1871, crayon lithograph with scraping on chine collé [proof], Rosenwald Collection, 1946.21.133

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Maxime Lalanne, *Un Poste de garde*, 1871, etching on Japanese paper, Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend, 2021.113.28

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Maxime Lalanne, *Avenue de Boulogne*, 1871, etching on wove paper, Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend, 2021.113.24

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Maxime Lalanne, *The Effects of Bombardment (Les Effets du bombardement)*, 1871, etching and drypoint on Japanese paper, Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend, 2021.113.21

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Maxime Lalanne, Cadart et Luquet, *Le Cavalier, Bastion 63 (The Rider, Bastion 63)*, 1871, etching on laid paper, Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend, 2021.113.22

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Félix Bracquemond, *Alphonse Legros*, 1861, etching on laid paper, Gift of George Matthew Adams in memory of his mother, Lydia Havens Adams, 1946.4.12

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Maxime Lalanne, John Constable, *Weymouth Bay*, 1873, etching on laid paper, Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend, 2021.113.36

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Félix Bracquemond, *Charles Meryon*, 1854, etching in brown-black and red on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.2101

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Félix Bracquemond, Hans Holbein the Younger, *Erasmus*, 1863, etching on chine collé on wove paper, Gift of Addie Burr Clark, 1946.9.21

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Félix Bracquemond, Albert de Balleroy, François Liénard, *The Hare (Le Lièvre)*, 1865 (1872 edition), etching and stipple on wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2005.45.1

**Organization**                        Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris

The exhibition is curated by Mary Morton, curator and head of the department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art; Kimberly Jones, curator of 19th-century French paintings, National Gallery of Art; Sylvie Patry, former Deputy Director for collections and curatorial affairs, Musée d’Orsay; and Anne Robbins, curator of paintings, Musée d’Orsay.

**Other venues** Musée d’Orsay, Paris, March 25–July 14, 2024

**Sponsors** Major support for the exhibition has been provided by The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation, Lugano Diamonds, Bank of America, and the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation.

The exhibition in Washington is also generously supported by the Hata Foundation, the Buffy and William Cafritz Family Fund, the Annenberg Fund for the International Exchange of Art, the Edwin L. Cox Exhibition Fund, and the Director’s Circle of the National Gallery of Art.

The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

**Passes** Admission is always free and passes are not required

**Banner detail**: Auguste Renoir, *La Loge (The Theater Box)*, 1874, oil on canvas, The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) Photo © The Courtauld 

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