Centennial expos

 

 

Meta-Impressionism / other exhibitions

Centennial exhibitions

continuous recognition

 

Introduction:
Already in 1889 and 1900 at the Exposition Universelle there had been Centennial exhibitions of French art, in 1889 covering the period from 1789-1889 and in 1900 from 1800-1889. There also have been Centennial exhibitions of French art inside and outside of France. This page will render some info and pictures on those exhibitions (as far as I have data).

Some preliminary conclusions:
Many partakers of the ‘impressionist’ expositions were well represented. Namely works of Renoir, Gauguin, Forain, Monet, Sisley, Degas and Cézanne. The same applies for the pre-impressionists, namely Corot, J.F. Millet and Rousseau. And for para-Impressionists, namely Courbet, Daumier and Manet. Of the more traditional artists namely Delacroix and Ingres were well represented. But, works of most awarded (former) members of L’Institut and important Néo-Classists like Bouguereau, Cabanel, Gérôme and Pils were (almost) absent!
Note: These preliminary conclusions are made only on the catalogues of the 1912 Saint-Petersburg and the 1914 Copenhagen catalogues. Of the other exhibitions I lack a catalogue.

 

Some reflections on art-history:
Art-history can have a focus on scandals, but than it downgrades itself to a sort of journalism (see Manet). Art-history can also have a focus on avant-garde painters: what artists were innovative, what artists stood at the beginning of new movements and styles? This seems to be inspired by the dialectic world view of the philosopher Hegel with his thesis vs antithesis (stanford.edu). We see this in the emphasize that is laid in many sources on Impressionism on the rejection of the ‘impressionist’ for the Salon and on comparing Impressionism with Néo-Classicism.
I like to plead for an art-history that (also) focusses on what art-works are consistently appreciated. When an art-work is exhibited at a Centennial exhibition (long after it was made), this could indicate that an art-work is consistently appreciated. So let’s look which artists were present at these Centennial exhibitions and what art-works were shown.

 

1907, Prague:
Wildenstein mentions that works of Monet were exhibited at this exposition: 1907/09/28 – 11/15, Société Manes: “Peinture française au XIXe siècle” (R22IV,p1020). It seems a centenial exposition. But this expostion is probably the same as the exhibition held in October and November called “Triadvacaté výsavy spolku výtvarných umelcu Mánes: Francouzsti impressionisté” (Twenty-third anniversary of the Mánes Association of Visual Artists: the French Impressionists), see link. The numbers and titles of the works exhibited by Monet correspond with this catalogue. All other sources don’t call it a centennial expo, so I assume Wildenstein is wrong.

1912, Saint Petersburg:
1912/01/28 onwards there was an exhibition called “Vy’stavka sto let franczuzskoj zhivopisi (1812-1912)” (100 years of French painting, 1812-1912; or Exposition centennale de l’art français) held in Saint Petersburg (R250=iR261;R106,p420). The exhibition showed 948 works by 199 artists. The emphasize was not on ‘official academic or salon painters’ but on artists that ‘opened up new paths’ (iR261). Several officials were involved like the French ambassador, curators (of Musée de Luxembourg, the Louvre) and also many (French) collectors.
Works of 23 of the 57 partakers of the ‘impressionist’ expositions were exhibited: Boudin (3x +3wc), Félix Bracquemond (5 engravings), Marie Bracquemond (1x), Cals (4x), Cézanne* (4x), Desboutin (1x; no engravings!), Degas (3x +1dr +6prints/lithos), Forain (!3x +5dr +1wc +7prints/lithos), Gauguin (20x! +2dr +1print/litho), Guillaumin (3x), Lebourg (2x), Legros (1x +1dr +6prints/lithos), Lépine (2x), Monet (9x), Morisot (4x), Pissarro (4x +2prints/lithos), J.F. Raffaëlli (2 drawings +1print/litho), Redon (2x +1dr +2prints/lithos), Renoir (23x! +1print/litho), Seurat (2x), Signac (2x); Sisley (7x), Vignon (1x). Note: for many this was done posthumously, see.
Works of Néo-Classicist painters: David (8x, including 4 portraits and 2 studies); Ingres (11x, including 6 portraits). Note: Works of most awarded (former) members of L’Institut and important Néo-Classists Cabanel and Gérôme were absent! Only of Bouguereau there was just 1 portrait and of Pils 1 painting.
Works of Romantic painters: Delacroix (21x!), Géricault (7x).
Many works of Barbizon painters: Corot (23x!); Decamps (7x, including 4x oils); Diaz (9x); Daubigny (7x); Huet (12x); Isabey (6x); Georges Michel (6x); J.F. Millet (11x); Rousseau (15x); Troyon (3x); Ziem (5x). Note: many works were just titled ‘paysage’.
Works of Para-Impressionists: Courbet (22x!); Daumier (12x); Manet (10x); Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886) (5x); Gustave Moreau (6x); Puvis de Chavannes (5x).
Works of Neo-Impressionists: Cross (1x);
Works of Post-Impressionists like Bonnard (6x), Denis (5x), Roussel (5x), Vallotton (6x), Valtat (4x), Vuillard (4x).
And also works of François, Baron Gérard  (1770-1837) (7x); Louis Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) (7x); Paul Gavarni / Paul Chevalier (1801-1876) (6x, including 4x caricatures); Constantin Guys (1805-1902) (13x, including 11x drawings); Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855) (6x, including 4x caricatures); Eugène Louis Lami (1800-1890) (4 oils + 2 watercolours); Manguin (2x); Albert Marquet (4 oils + 3 drawings); Meissonnier (4x); Henry Monnier (1805-1877) (5x); Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823) (12x); Louis Gustave Ricard (1823-1872) ( ?8x); La Santinelle (12x); Fontaine de Swebach (1769-1823) (5x); Toulouse-Lautrec (3x).
Many loans came from art-dealers like Bernheim-Jeune, Beurdeley (Paris), Druet, Durand-Ruel, Paul Rosenberg, Vollard and art-collectors like Ackermann, Barbazanges, Duret, Victor Victorovich Goloubev, Alphonse Kahn, Pearson, Théodore Reinach, Mme Rouart and several collectors from Saint-Petersbourg. Just a few loans came from musea.
Note: the catalogue wasn’t allways accurate such as in the date of birth of Monet and the data of death of Pissarro.
Note: Works of most awarded (former) members of L’Institut and important Néo-Classists Bouguereau, Cabanel and Gérôme were absent!
Note*: another source claims that there were 18 art-works of Cézanne shown (iR194), see account.
Catalogue (iR261): “[Vy’stavka sto let franczuzskoj zhivopisi (1812-1912) : Exhibition 100 Years of French Painting (1812-1912)].” In Database of Modern Exhibitions (DoME). European Paintings and Drawings 1905-1915. Last modified Mar 1, 2023. http://exhibitions.univie.ac.at/exhibition/411 (note: partly unfinished).
Catalogue (iR40,bpt6k1421639x).

 

1914, Copenhagen:
1914/05/15 – 06/30 there was an “Exposition d’art français du XIXe siècle” (Fransk Malerkunst fra det 19nde Aarhundrede) in the Musée royale (Statens Museum for Kunst) organised by the Dansk Kunstmuseums Forening Copenhague.
Works were exhibited of 18 of the 57  partakers of the ‘impressionist’ expositions: Boudin (2x), Cals (1x), Cézanne (!7x +2dr +2wc?), Degas (4x +3p), Forain (!6x +3dr +1wc), Gauguin (9x), Guillaumin (4x), Legros (2dr), Monet (!10x), Morisot (3x +1wc +1dr), Pissarro (3x +1g), J.F. Raffaëlli (1x), Redon (1p), Renoir (!12x), Rouart (2x +1wc), Seurat (2x +3p +4dr), Signac (2x +1dr), Sisley (!11x).
And also works of Barye (2x +3wc +4dr); Besnard (1x); Bonnard (5x); Eugène Carrière (2x +2dr); Chassériau (1x); Chintreuil (2x); Corot (!11x +9dr) (iR23); Courbet (7x); Couture (4x); Cross (4x); Daubigny (4x +4dr); Daumier (!4x +7dr +2wc); David (6x); Delacroix (!10x +7wc +7dr); Diaz (1dr?); Dupré (1dr); Fantin-Latour (2x +2dr); Friesz (1x); Géricault (2x +2x5dr!); Eva Gonzalès (1x), Constantin Guys (2dr +4wc); Huet (4x +1dr); Ingres (4x +5dr); Jongkind (2x +2wc); Manet (6x +2dr); Albert Marquet (4x); Matisse (4x); J.F. Millet (5x +8dr!); Prud’hon (2dr); Jean Puy (2x); Rodin (!7wc +5dr); Rousseau (6x +12dr!); Toulouse-Lautrec (7x +2dr), Vuillard (2x).
Note: Works of most awarded (former) members of L’Institut and important Néo-Classists Bouguereau, Cabanel, Gérôme and Pils were absent!
Catalogue: gallica.bnf.fr//bpt6k323974m =iR40.
Sources: some websites render indirect information on exhibited works: now in Oslo (M92); of Gauguin (iR185). Some catalogues on partakers also render info: on Monet (R22), on Signac (R106); see also: R116;R398,p529.
Monet:
Copenhagen-1914-146 =CR279.
Copenhagen-1914-148 =CR792
Copenhagen-1914-149 =CR1284
Copenhagen-1914-150 =CR1358
Copenhagen-1914-151 =CR1361
Copenhagen-1914-152 =CR1442
Copenhagen-1914-153 =CR1622 or 1624
Copenhagen-1914-154 =CR1637

Signac:
Copenhagen-1914-193 =CR207
Copenhagen-1914-193 =CR472

 

 

1914, Dresden:
1914, April – May, Ernste Arnold, “Französische Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. Works were exhibited of Monet (10x; R22). There were at least 2 work of Lebourg exhibited (iR261).

Monet:
1914-Dresden-71 =CR755
1914-Dresden-72 =CR
1914-Dresden-73 =CR1177
1914-Dresden-74 =CR1004
1914-Dresden-75 =CR409
1914-Dresden-76 =CR109
1914-Dresden-77 =CR1744
1914-Dresden-108a =CR1546
1914-Dresden-108b =CR1691
1914-Dresden-108b =CR1433

1917, Stockholm:
1917, National Museum, Art français du XIXe siècle, with works of Monet (1x).
Monet:
Stockholm, 1917-73 = CR792.

1918, Geneva:
1918/04/15 – 05/16: in Geneva at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire called ‘Tableaux, dessins et sculptures de l’École française du XIXe siècle.
Including Monet CR 233 (103) +285 (105) +?470 (106) +660 (99) +1115 or 1118 (101) (R22IV,p1022).
Including 5 works of Pissarro (no.108-112), including CCP 602 (109) +827 (110) (R116I,p371).
Including Sisley CCPP629.
Note: several works came from the accepted Caillebotte bequest and were loans from the Musée du Luxembourg.

1920, Cent Ans de Peinture Française.
Held at la Ville-l’Evêque ? at .

1922, Paris:
1922/03/15 – 04/20, in the Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts at 18, Rue de la Ville-l’Evêque: Cent ans de peinture française.
Among the partakers were Cézanne (Rochers du Mont St. Victoire; badly represented), Degas (with inferieur works), Redon (1x),  Renoir (well represented), Seurat (including Le Port-en-Bessin, 1888, now in Saint-Louis). And also: Bastien-Lepage, Besnard, Bonnat, Braque (2 works made in 1920), Carolus-Duran, Chassériau, Corot, Daubigny, David, Delacroix, Diaz, Fatin-Latour, Géricault, Ingres, Manet, Henry Martin, Th. Rousseau, ; Fauves like Friesz, Matisse, de Vlaminck (all with more recent works). Monet, Pissarro and Sisley were absent; and also Courbet, Derain; and also foreigners like Bonington, Jongkind, Picasso and Van Gogh.
Including works of Monet (4x); Pissarro 1x (R116,no235); Sisley? (R396,p529). And also of Corot (iR23).
Sources: review in L’Amour de l’art, 1922/01 (p101-104=R356=iR40);R22;R116;R396; iR23.
Question: also shown at the Musée de Strasbourg ?
Monet:
Paris-100-1922-118 =? CR1090
Paris-100-1922-119 =CR163
Paris-100-1922-120 =CR229
Paris-100-1922-179 =CR643
Pissarro:
Paris-100-1922-124 = CCP235.

1922, Paul Rosenberg gallery, Paris:
1922/05/03 – 06/03, Paul Rosenberg: Exposition d’Oeuvres de grands maîtres du XIXe siècle (=PR-XIX-1922).
Including: Monet 5x (R22IV,p1023), Pissarro 5x (R116III,p373); Sisley 5x? (R396).
Monet:
PR-XIX-1922-56 =CR401
PR-XIX-1922-57 =CR584
PR-XIX-1922-58 =CR442
PR-XIX-1922-59 =CR561
PR-XIX-1922-60 =CR797
Pissarro: 
PR-XIX-1922-64, =CCP321
PR-XIX-1922-65, =CCP355
PR-XIX-1922-66, =? CCP429
PR-XIX-1922-67, =? CCP430
PR-XIX-1922-68, =CCP629
Sisley:
PR-XIX-1922-89, =CCPP140 =CR146
PR-XIX-1922-90, =CCPP139=CR148
PR-XIX-1922-91, =CCPP141 =CR108
PR-XIX-1922-92, =CCPP?
PR-XIX-1922-93, =CCPP256 =CR243

1923, London:
1923/06/26 -07/21, Knoedler: 19th century French painters, with Monet (6x).
Monet:
London-100-1923-31 =CR903
London-100-1923-32 =CR678
London-100-1923-33 =CR1754
London-100-1923-34 =CR1146
London-100-1923-35 =CR1192
London-100-1923-36 =CR124

1924, London:
1924, May + June: Lefevre Gallery: Important pictures by 19th Century French Masters, including Monet (5x); Sisley.
R22IV,p1023+CR76+158+497+656+1310.

1924, New York:
1924/05/12 -29, Fearon: French painters of the 19th Century, including Monet (x).
Monet:
New-York-1924-3 =CR680
New-York-1924-6 =CR1171
New-York-1924-9 =CR385

1924, Paris, Knoedler:
1924/05/12 -?, Galerie Knoedler: Peintres de l’école française du XIXe siècle (=GKn-XIX-1924).
Including Monet (12x): CR124+244+245+293+560+678+903+1146+?1367+1541+1721+1754 of Monet (R22IV,p1023).
Including Pissarro 4x: CCP 129 +351 +488 +? (R116I,p373)
Including Sisley: CCPP: ? +? +939 +943 +951 of Sisley (R396).
GKn-XIX-1924-3, =Sisley =CCPP951 =CR826
GKn-XIX-1924-4 =Pissarro =CCP488
GKn-XIX-1924-5 = Monet =CR1754
GKn-XIX-1924-6 = Pissarro =CCP351
GKn-XIX-1924-7 = Monet =CR678
GKn-XIX-1924-8 = Pissarro =CCP129
GKn-XIX-1924-17, =Monet =CR245
GKn-XIX-1924-18, =Sisley =CCPP939 =CR834
GKn-XIX-1924-19, =Monet =CR244
GKn-XIX-1924-20, =Monet =CR1541
GKn-XIX-1924-22, =Monet =CR1721
GKn-XIX-1924-23, Bords de rivière Pissarro
GKn-XIX-1924-24, =Monet =? CR1367
GKn-XIX-1924-29, =Monet =CR560
GKn-XIX-1924-34, =Monet =CR1146
GKn-XIX-1924-36, =Monet =CR903
GKn-XIX-1924-41, =Sisley =CCPP943 =CR831
GKn-XIX-1924-42, =Monet =CR293
GKn-XIX-1924-45, =Monet =CR124
GKn-XIX-1924

1925, Paris, Paul Rosenberg:
1925/01/15 – 02/17, Paul Rosenberg: Les Grandes Influences au XIXe siècle (d’Ingres à Cézanne), with Monet.
R22IV,p1024+CR608.

1925, Vienna:
In March and April 1925 the “82e Ausstellung der Sezession” was dedicated to “Die Führenden Meister der französischen Kunst im neunzehnten Jahrhundert” (The Leading Masters of French Art in the Nineteenth Century). Works were exhibited of Monet and Signac.
Monet:
Vienna-1925-35 =CR29
Vienna-1925-41 =? CR474
Vienna-1925-70 =?CR501

Signac:
Vienna-1925-51 =CR419

 

 

Sources:
My main sources are the catalogues in the Salon database (iR1) and other catalogues (R250;iR261); the catalogues raisonnée of Monet (R22IV,p1016-1022), Signac (R106,p420/1), Pissarro (R116); catalogues of Renoir (R31,p315), Sisley. Other sources are Denvir (R5). For other general references (=R) see. For other references to internet sites (=iR) see. See links for practical hints and abbreviations and for the subscription of the paintings.

Catalogues:
1912, Saint-Petersbourg: iR40,gallica.bnf.fr//bpt6k1421639x =iR40.
In Database of Modern Exhibitions (DoME). European Paintings and Drawings 1905-1915. Last modified Mar 16, 2021. http://exhibitions.univie.ac.at/exhibition/411 (iR261) (note: partly unfinished);
1914, Copenhagen: gallica.bnf.fr//bpt6k323974m =iR40.

 

 

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