Figaro Hors-série Paris 1874, Impressionisme-Soleil levant, published one hundred and fifty years after the first impressionist exhibition commemorated by the Musée d'Orsay. To forget the poverty and the vehemence of the Salon towards them, Monet and Renoir go to paint at La Grenouillère, the tavern where Paris slums.
This year, the Show was very severe. Bazille wrote to his parents: “The jury caused great carnage among the paintings of the four or five young painters”