L'Aube de l'Impressionisme (1848-1869) (French Edition)

During the period of 1848 to 1869, Art underwent its most vital upheavals. In the Salons, Academism triumphed - but in the studios, a revolution was brewing. Corot was on the roads of France. Manet was causing a scandal, but Monet and Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley were lying low. Over hill and vale, an enchanting rural France offered itself to them. From the Tuileries, where the Court attracted the whole of Europe, to the Salon held by the princess Mathilde, a new society was in the making. This volume, part of a series which already chronicles the Annees Impressionnistes, the Annees de la Belle Epoque and the Annees Folles, recounts this moment through rich documentation. It is a journey through time. From blaring brass-bands to Oriental myth, from "triumphant firemen" to young rebels inventing Naturalism, the dawn of Impressionism is already the dawn of modernity.