Timeline May 1874

Events in May 1874 1

• 1874 First Impressionist Exhibition Monet, Renoir, Degas and others exhibit independently in Paris A group of independent French painters, later dubbed Impressionists after Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, held their first exhibition in the studio of photographer Nadar on Boulevard des Capucines. The show broke from the official Paris Salon and introduced a new style of loose brushwork and everyday subject matter. It ran for one month and included work by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Cezanne and Morisot.