Little anthology of exhaustion. Of the sixty articles and press announcements known today, only seven are frankly hostile.
Caricatures show thieves at work in workers' aprons, dirty and disheveled like savages. They paint with a broom. For Leroy, these independents produce a painting “attacking good artistic morals, the cult of form and respect for the masters” He is offended by the ‘rubbish tone’ and the “loose style made fashionable by Corot’ For him, Eugène Boudin “picks” his marines. Several of his colleagues laugh. Catullus Mendes…