Impressionism, a historical reconstruction

7th impressionist exposition 1882

Overview used techniques

 

Which techniques were used in 1882?
Which techniques or media were used at the 7th ‘impressionist’ exposition in 1882?
Only 9 partakers showing about 212 works. See slideshow.

Of the total of 212 exhibited art-works 181 were oil paintings, about 85,4% of the total amount of art-works, which is the highest percentage of oil paintings exhibited at the 8 ‘impressionist’ expositions.

The following 4 partakers exhibited pastels: Caillebotte 1x (no.14); Gauguin 1x (no.28); Guillaumin 13x (nos.44-56); Morisot 3x (nos.98-100). So in total there were probably 18 pastels exhibited, about 8% of the total.

Pissarro exhibited 10 gouaches (nos.126-135), about 4,7% of the total; I will count them as aquarelles.

Vignon exhibited 1 study made with 4 pencils (no.203); I will count it as a drawing; this is less than 1% of the total.

Gauguin exhibited 1 sculpture (no.30); this is less than 1% of the total.

The following partaker exhibited art-works using mixed techniques: No.136 of Pissarro is indicated as détrempe (=tempera), I assume he used mixed techniques; this 1 work is less than 1% of the total.

 

Overview:
Here below you will find an overview. You will see that 85,4% of the art-works were oil paintings (=oil), the highest percentage of all 8 ‘impressionist’ expositions. There were several (18) pastels (=p) exhibited, some (10) aquarelles (=aqua) and just 1 drawing (=dr), 1 mixed technique (=mix) and 1 sculpture (=sc). There were no engravings (=engr) exhibited, no fans and no other techniques (=var). You could say this was the exposition with the most limited variation in use of techniques. Pissarro (36) and Monet (35) showed the most art-works, Pissarro including 10 gouaches and Monet only oil paintings. Guillaumin also showed 13 pastels. In total there were just 9 partakers showing 212 art-works. They showed an average of 23,6 art-works per partaker, which was far out the highest average of exhibited art-works. See links for general info, the catalogue and a slideshow.

Explanation:
(obvious) high number.
(obvious) low number.

 

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Note: maybe corrections will be added in the future.