Introduction: At the 8 ‘impressionist’ expositions held from 1874-1886 in Paris there were also several pastels exhibited. In 1874 Boudin and Monet showed several pastels. Morisot would regularly exhibit pastels. Many pastels were exhibited in 1882 by Guillaumin, in 1886 by Degas. At the bottom of this page you will find an account per year.
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Eugène Boudin, 1IE-1874-20-1, études de ciel (pastels). Maybe?: 1860, Seascape with Large Sky, pastel, 21×29, A2013/05/25 (iR2;iR11;R2,p119)
Eugène Boudin, 1IE-1874-20-2, études de ciel (pastels). Maybe?: 18xx, Sky, an afternoon in October, pastel, 21×29, A2000/11/20 (iR13;R2,p119;R87,p230)
Eugène Boudin, 1IE-1874-20-3, études de ciel (pastels). Maybe?: 18xx, Study of the sky, pastel, 15×22, A2017/03/29 (iR13;iR10;R2,p119;R87,p230)
Eugène Boudin, 1IE-1874-20-4, études de ciel (pastels). Maybe?: 1854-59ca, Sunset and cliff (Étretat), pastel, 15×21, MEB Honfleur (iR23;R51,p197;R2,p119;R87,p230;M19) =EdBA-1899
Eugène Boudin, 1IE-1874-21-1, études diverses. Maybe??: 1855-60, Honfleur, the lighthouse, pastel, xx, private (iR2;aR2;R2,p119;R87,p230)
Eugène Boudin, 1IE-1874-21-2, études diverses. Maybe??: 1860, The Saint-Siméon Farm, pastel, 20×30, private (iR2;R2,p119;R87,p230;R161,p14)
Edgar Degas, 1898-1900ca (1870-86ca), CR277, Woman Ironing, pastel+drawing, 71×48, A2021/11/11 (iR2;iR15;iR10;iR13;R26,no365;R2,p120) =? 1IE-1874-61, Une blanchisseuse, pastel; appartient à M. Brandon
Claude Monet, 1IE-1874-99 Deux croquis (pastel). Maybe??: 1864-66 ca, Landscape with Houses, 17×36, Metropolitan (iRx;R2,p121;M23)
Claude Monet, 1IE-1874-99, Deux croquis, pastel. Maybe??: 1864-66 ca., Broad landscape, 17×36, MFA Boston (iRx;R2,p121;M22)
Claude Monet, 1IE-1874-100 Deux croquis (pastel). Maybe??: 1865-70ca, Sunset on the Plain, 21×32, private (iR2;R2,p121)
Claude Monet, 1IE-1874-100, Deux croquis (pastel). Maybe??: 1865ca, Twilight, 19×31, MBA Nantes (iR2;R2,p121;M16)
Claude Monet, 1IE-1874-101, Deux croquis (pastel). Maybe??: 1862-64ca, Sunset over the Sea, 17×33, Ashmolean Oxford (iR2;R2,p121;M66)
Claude Monet, 1IE-1874-101 Deux croquis (pastel). Maybe??: 1862-64ca, View of the Sea at Sunset, 15×40, MFA Boston (iR2;R2,p121;M22)
Claude Monet, 1IE-1874-102, Un croquis (pastel). Maybe??: 1868ca, Caloges and Boat at Étretat (or: près d’Étretat), 21×41, IMJ Jerusalem (iR2;R2,p121;M130)
Berthe Morisot, 1IE-1874-108, Portrait de Mademoiselle M.T. (=Madeleine Thomas; pastel). Now: 1873ca, CR426, Young Girl with a Parrot, pastel, 60×50, NY private (iR2;R2,p135;R90II,p10)
Berthe Morisot, 1IE-1874-109, Un village. Now: 1873, CR424, The Village of Maurecourt, pastel, 47×72, private NY (iR10;iR135;iR2;R2,p136;R90II,p10)
Berthe Morisot, S1872-1142, Portrait de Mlle E. P… ; pastel. Maybe: 1871, CR419, Portrait of Madame Edma Pontillon, pastel, 81×64, Orsay (iR10;iR92;iR2;iR1;R42,p17;R3,p88;R90I,p11;R100,p51). Probably also exhibited as 1IE-1874-112+hc.
August Renoir, 1IE-1874-146, Croquis (pastel). Maybe??: 1868-70, Portrait d’une jeune femme, pastel, 44×36, A2012/05/15 (iR11;R2,p122)
Edgar Degas, 1869, CR214, Mme Théodore Gobillard (Yves Morisot, 1838–1893), pastel, 48×30, Metropolitan (iR8;iR1;M23;R2,p161;R26,no250) =? S1870-3320 Portrait de Mme G…. ; pastel =?? 2IE-1876-42, Ébauche de portrait, pastel
Edgar Degas, 1869ca, CR1984supp62, La Repasseuse, dr+pastel, 74×61, Orsay (iR6;iR8;iR10;iR23;R2,p161+120;R90II,p7+22;R206,no62;R87,p237) =?? 2IE-1876-59, Blanchisseuse (dessin) =?? 1IE-1874-61, Une blanchisseuse, pastel; appartient à M. Brandon
Berthe Morisot, 2IE-1876-182, Trois dessins au pastel. Maybe(???): 1874, CR430, Harbor in the Port of Fécamp, pastel, 30×36, Axx (iRx;iR13;R100,p52)
Berthe Morisot, 2IE-1876-182, Trois dessins au pastel. Maybe(??): 1874, CR429, On the Beach at Fécamp, pastel, 40×60, private (iR6;R100,p52;R2,p163) Probably auctioned: HD1875/03/24-28.
Berthe Morisot, 2IE-1876-182, Trois dessins au pastel. Maybe(??): 1874, CR428, In the woods of Maurecourt, pastel, 55×44, A2003/03/26 (iR13;iR6;R100,p51;R2,p163)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-226, portrait de M. H… (pastel). Compare: 1880, Paul Cézanne, pastel, 54×45, A2012/05/02 (iRx;iR11;R3,p346;R1,p475;R3,p346;R2,p164) Chocquet coll.
Berthe Morisot, 3IE-1877-125, Pastel, =1877, dreamer, pastel, 50×61, NAMA Kansas City (iR10;Mx;iR59;R90II,p97)
Berthe Morisot, 3IE-1877-126, Vue de la Tamise, pastel =1875, CR431, Bateaux sur La Tamise (Ships on the Thames), pastel, 31×48, xx (iR6;R100,p52;R90II,p78)
Account: In 1874 the following partakers exhibited pastels: Boudin 6x (no.20+21); Degas 1x (no.61); Monet 7x (nos.99-102); Morisot 2x (no.108+109); Renoir 1x (no.146). So in total there were probably 17 pastels exhibited, about 8% of the total amount of art-works.
In 1876 the following partakers exhibited pastels: Degas 2x (no.42+59), the last number was indicated as a drawing, but it was partly a pastel, so I will count it as such; Morisot showed 3 ‘dessins au pastel’ (no.182); Renoir 1 (no.226). So in total there were probably 6 pastels exhibited, about 2% of the total amount of art-works.
In 1877Morisot exhibited 2 pastels (no.125+126). Degas showed several pastels on monotype, see mixed techniques. So in total there were just 2 pastels exhibited, about 1% of the total amount of art-works.
In 1882 the following 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.
