1874 - Art

Art

Painting: Mme. Boursier and Her Daughter by Berthe Morisot, now 33, who marries Edouard Manet's brother and joins the French Impressionists. The Salon has rejected their work and they hold their first exhibition April 15 on the Boulevard des Capuchins at Paris in an independent show of canvases which include a harbor scene entitled Impression: Sunrise and The Studio Boat by Claude Monet, now 40, who receives support from art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, now 42. Monet's work prompts art critic Louis Leroy to call the painters "impressionists," an epithet that will soon lose its pejorative overtone although initial reactions to the works are mostly derisive. The group includes Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, now 44, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley; Quarry near Pontoise by Camille Pissarro; La Loge (The Theater Box) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir; Homer and His Guide by William Bouguereau; Calling the Roll after an Engagement, Crimea by English painter Elizabeth Thompson, 24; Cliffs of Green River by Thomas Moran; Boys in a Pasture by Winslow Homer; John Biglin in a Single Scull, The Schreiber Brothers, and Benjamin Howard Rand by Thomas Eakins.