Boulevard des Capucines on the top
floor of a building that had just been
vacated by a photographer. It was a
series of small rooms with red-brown
walls. The Impressionists’ exhibition
opened on April 15, 1874, and lasted
one month. The entrance fee was one
franc. There were 165 works of art on
display, including three Cézannes, ten
paintings by Degas, nine Monets, five
Pissarros, six Renoirs, and five by
Alfred Sisley—a tiny fraction of what
was on the walls of the Salon across
town. In their show, the Impressionists
could exhibit as many canvases as they
wished and hang them in a way that
allowed people to actually see them.
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(Darren Dugan)
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