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Salon des Refusés
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Salon des Refusés

Special art exhibition in Paris 1863 ordered by Napoleon III in response to protests at the rejection of Edouard Manet and others from the official Salon that year. Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe was one of the principal exhibits.

Other artists exhibiting were Eugène Boudin, Paul Cézanne, Henri Fantin-Latour, Johan Bartold Jongkind, Camille Pissarro, and James Whistler.



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31 Salon des Refuses What: Nonjuried exhibition of works rejected by the Mayor's Art Show Where: New Zone Gallery, 164 W.
May 8 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rivalries and Reputations in the Gilded Age: Manet, Meissonier and the Birth of Impressionism Ross King, British scholar and author of the bestselling Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling Enormous changes occurred in French society and French art between 1863 - the year of the Salon des Refuses - and the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874.
King focuses on the turmoil between the Salon des Refuses of 1863 and the first Impressionist showing of 1874, a period which began with the elegant Napoleon III and ended without him after his fall in the Franco-Prussian War.
 
 
 
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