impress/postimpress

1859 - Manet submits The Absinthe Drinker to the Salon - rejected, leads to him painting Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia

1874 - First Impressionist exhibition - includes Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Morisot

1876 - Second Impressionist exhibition - same people, funded by Gustave Caillebotte

1877 - Third exhibition

1879 - Fourth exhibition - Cezanne, Renoir, Morisot do not attend, 15000 people come

1841 - John Goff Rand invents metal tube

1883 - Manet dies from syphilis, Monet holds solo show, first major exhibition in America

1859 - Monet comes to Paris to study at the Academie Suisse, Charles Gleyre's studio - meets many other painters

1878 - Paul Cezanne separates himself from Impressionism

1888 - Van Gogh moves to Arles

1888- Van Gogh goes to the asylum in Saint-Remy after increased mental instability

1895 - Cezanne's solo exhibition

1850-56 - Manet studies at Thomas Couture's studio, develops his own style

1870 - Napoleon III declares war on Prussia

1870 - 71 - Siege of Paris

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism