one step to take,” Duret wrote to
Pissarro in 1874. “That is to succeed in
becoming known to the public and
accepted by all the dealers and art
lovers....I urge you to exhibit; you must
succeed in making a noise, in defying
and attracting criticism, coming face-to-
face with the big public.”
But the very things that made the
Salon so attractive—how selective and
prestigious it was—also made it
problematic. The Palais was an
enormous barn of a building three
hundred yards long with a central aisle
that was two stories high. A typical
Salon might accept three or four
thousand paintings, and they were hung
in four tiers, starting at ground level and
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