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. Giuseppe De Nittis is the darling of Parisian salons, but it was in the countryside, in the company of Manet, that he revealed the best of his art.
The two artists share a love of reality and also that of Japanese art in vogue since the 1867 Universal Exhibition of Universal Art.