Introduction: Regional exhibitions in France were an alternative for the partakers of the ‘impressionist’ expositions to show their works and promote oneselves. What pictures did they show at what exhibitions? On this page you will find some (uncertain) suggestions of what works they did show from 1874 till 1886, so during the years that the ‘impressionist’ expositions were held. You will also find some works of related artists.
Note 1: the information on these regional exhibitions is limited and fragmented.
Note 2: sometimes works were sent in by the Durand-Ruel and other art-dealers or from private collections.
Note 3: I will render the works per location, than by form, than alphabetical on the artist name and than chronological when it was exhibited.
Note 4:If you double click on the first (of a cluster of) pictures and then click on full screen, you can create a slideshow. On a smartphone or laptop you can also zoom in. Enjoy!
Le Havre: Le Havre lies about 200km west at of Paris at the right bank of the estuary of the Seine (iR9). There had been various exhibitions, but namely organised by the ‘Société des amis des arts du Havre’.
Claude Monet: SdAF-1880-2681, Lavacourt = CR578, 1880, (The Seine at) Lavacourt, 100×150, Dallas MA (iR2;iR1;R22,no578;M36) =Le Havre-1880-328 =New York AAG+NAD-1886-151 =Pittsburgh-1908-57 =Boston-1913-25 =Durand-Ruel collection (1881-86 + 1895-1938)
Claude Monet: 1879, CR522, Pear trees in blossom, 60×100, private (iR10;iR64;R22,no522) =? Le Havre-1880-330, Le Printemps.
Lyon:
Lyon lies almost 500km south-east of Paris and about 143 south-west of Geneva (iR9).
Montauban: Montauban lies about 610km south of Paris and about 50km north of Toulouse (iR9).
Mulhouse: Mulhouse lies about 440km east / south-east of Paris, close to the German and Swiss border (iR9).
Nancy: Nancy lies about 310km east of Paris (iR9). 1884/05/31 – 07/15: the Société Lorraine des Amis des Arts organised an Exposition des Beaux-Arts. Durand-Ruel lent pictures, including 1 of Pissarro (R116I,p362/3); 1 by Sisley (R166,p42+270). Monet also exhibited (R22IV,p1016)
Alfred Sisley: 1880ca, CR363=CCPP432, Le pont du chemin de fer, 46×55, A2022/05/14 (iR10;iR15;iR129,no363;R396,no432) Expo: =?? Nancy-1884-410, The Pond (Meuse) (sic) (loan by Durand-Ruel) (R166,p42+270+52,note62). Provenance: 1930ca Dr. Mollard.
Nantes: Nantes lies about 375 km south-west of Paris (iR9).
Camille Pissarro: 8IE-1886-95, Vue de ma fenêtre par temps gris = 1886-88, CCP825, View from My Window, Eragny-sur-Epte, 65×81, Ashmolean Oxford (iR2;iR59;R2,p445+461;R90II,p246+266;R116,CCP825;M66) =Nantes-1886-862 =EPG-DR1889-224
Camille Pissarro: CCP826, 1886, SDbl1888, The Delafolie brickyard at Éragny, 58×72, A2008/05/09 (iR6;iR15;R116,no826) =Nantes-1886-863
Paul Signac: 8IE-1886-192, Bonne brise de N1/4 N-O, Saint-Briac =1885, CR95, opus 103, Stiff Northwest breeze, 45×65, private (iR2;iR10;R2,p447+472;R90II,p253+277;R39,no9;R106,no95) =Nantes-1886-971
Paul Signac: 1885, CR103, opus116, SDbl84, Saint-Briac, Rivière de Lancieux, 46×65, A2021/06/29 (iR10;iR384;R106,no103) =Nantes-1886-972
Georges Seurat: 1886, DR168 dH173, The Hospice and Lighthouse of Honfleur, 65×82, NGA Washington (iR2;iR6;R3,p272;R2,p468;R183,no168;R207,p124/5;M21) =Nantes-1886-968 =4XX-1887-5 =3SdI-1887-439 =Anvers-ApA-1892-2 =9XX-1892-6 =8SdI-1892-1095 =11LE-1904-146 =21SdI-1905-37 =Saint-Petersbourg-1912-593
Georges Seurat: 1886, DR165 dH169, The beach, Le Bas-Butin at Honfleur, 67×78, MBA Tournai (iR6;R3,p271;R183,no165;R207,p124/5) =Nantes-1886-969 =4XX-1887-6 =3SdI-1887-440 =17LE-1910-169
Auguste Renoir: 1IE-1874-142, La Loge = 1874, 1CR116=1F125, SDbl, The theater box, 80x64cm, Courtauld London (iR2;R87,p251;R2,p107;R90II,p12+28;R1,p334; R108,no116;R30=R193,no125;R190,no120;R31,no26;R231-1+2;M60) Provenance: 1874 Père Martin (425fr); Louis Flornoy; 1899/02 Durand-Ruel till 1925. Expos: London-SFA-1874-12; Nantes-1886-893; DR1892-63; DR1899-74; = EU-1900-C-562, La loge (1874) (à Mme A.F. Aude); 11LE-1904-128; London-GG-1905-251.
Pau: Pau lies about 715km south of Paris and 170km west / south-west of Toulouse (iR9).
In Pau the ‘Société (béarnaise) des Amis des Beaux-Arts’ organised exhibitions in the Musée de la Ville (1876+77+78). 1876/01/06 – 03/06, 12th exposition annuelle: Pissarro and Renoir exhibited 2 works (R116I,p362;R31,p298). 1877/01/08 – 03/08, 13th exposition annuelle: Pissarro exhibited 1 work (R116I,p362+CCP312); Sisley 2 (R166,p266). 1878/01/15 – 03/15, 14th exposition annuelle: Pissarro exhibited 3 works (R116I,p362); Sisley also (R166,p266). 1879/02/03: Sisley exhibited 3 works, but sold nothing (R5,p112).
Camille Pissarro: 1IE-1874-140, Une Matinée du mois de juin = 1873, CCP312, Morning in June, Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône, 55×91, SKh Karlsruhe (iR10;iR2;iR59;R116,no312;R126,no224;R87,p250;R90II,p27;R2,p122;M57,no2539) =Pau-1877-358
Reims: Reims lies about 150km north-east of Paris (iR9).
Claude Monet: 1870, CR149, Infantryguards wandering along the river (at Bougival), 54×65, A1993/11/02 (iR10;iR64;iR15;R22IV,p1016+CR149) Reims-1873, lent by Durand-Ruel
Camille Pissarro: CCP210, 1871, Avenue in the Parc de Marly, 445×55, Madrid MTB (iR10;iR6;R106,no210;M100) =? Reims-1874-853
Rouen: Rouen lies about 125km north-west of Paris along the Seine (iR9).
Saint-Brieuc: Saint-Brieuc lies about 420km west / west-south of Paris; it lies on the northern coast of the Brittany pennisula (iR9).
Toulouse: Toulouse lies about 660km south of Paris and 120km north of the Pyrenean (iR9).
Antoine-Ferdinand Attendu: 1870-88, Still-life with armour, 37×47, MBA Rennes (iR23;iR35;iR1;M210) =AAG-1888/02/21-20, Collection of Armor (aR14). Compare: SdAF-1885-77, Les armures + Toulouse-1885-12, Armures.
Antoine-Ferdinand Attendu: 18xx, SDbr, Les écrevisses et bouteille de vin (Crayfish and a bottle of wine), 49×65, A2004/11/03 (iR18;iR1) Maybe: S1879-79: Les langoustes; Toulouse-1886-9, Langoustes.
Antoine-Ferdinand Attendu (?): 18xx, Mussels in a porcelain bowl, (after Jacob Fopsen van Es), xx, xx (iR37;iR1). Compare: S1874-45: Huîtres, etc; S1877-59: Les huîtres; Toulouse-1886-10, Huîtres; Blois-1893-8, Les huîtres; Plat d’huîtres (R88I,p19)
Tours: Tours lies about 220km south-west of Paris along the Loire (iR9). 1882/09 – 1882/10 (or: 1882/10/01 – 11/01): in the Hôtel de Ville in Tours by the Société des Amis des Arts de la Touraine (paintings lent by Durand-Ruel): Monet (2x); Pissarro (1x); Renoir; Sisley (2x) (R22IV,p1016+CR722+735;R116I,p362+CCP688;R166,p39+268+296+51,note39;R5,p130)
Claude Monet: 1882, CR735, The customs house at Dieppe, 58×70, Metropolitan (iR10;iR209;R22IV,p1016+CR735;M23) =Tours-1882, lent by Durand-Ruel =Boston-1883-10
Alfred Sisley: 1872, SDbl, CR41=CCPP47, Banks of the Seine at Bougival, 55×73, private (R166,p37+42+52,note39+50+58+61;R129,no41;R396,no47) Provenance: 1873/02 Durand-Ruel. Expos: =??? Vienna-EU-1873, The great avenue (R166,p51,note 9); =?? Tours-1882-311, Banks of the Seine (loan by Durand-Ruel); =?? DR1883-solo-?, Banks of the Seine; =?? Berlin-Gurlitt-PI-1883-?; =?? London-DG-EtI-1884-?5, Banks of the Seine; =London-GG-1905-299.
Alfred Sisley: 1874, SDbr, CCPP129, CR-, La ferme du Trou d’Enfer, Marly-le-Roi, matinée d’automne, 46×61, HMA Atlanta (iR2;iR11;R396,no129;R166,p51,note40+p52,note50;M150) Provenance: ?Durand-Ruel; 1883/08/07 Georges Petit; Montaignac; 1897ca Dr. E. Claret. Expos: =? London-EI-1882-4?, Hellhole farm; =? Tours-1882-312, Hellhole farm; =? DR1883-solo-?, Hellhole farm; GP1897-78.
Camille Pissarro: CCP688, 1882, Woman and child at a well, 82×66, AI Chicago (iR10;M20;R116,CCP688;M20) Provenance: Durand-Ruel 1882/08/05 Expos: =Tours-1882 =DR1883-10 =?NY-AAG+NAD-1886-145
Sources: See at the bottom of the main page on the regional exhibitions.
See link for explanation of the subscription of the pictures.
