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1833 |
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April 20: Antoine Vollon is born in Lyon. |
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1847-55 |
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He apprentices as an engraver at the Imprimerie Char-rasse at Lyon, then studies printmaking at the local École des Beaux-Arts. |
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1848 |
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The July Monarchy is toppled. King Louis-Philippe goes into exile, and the Second Republic is declared. |
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A plebiscite establishes the Second Empire, under the rule of Napoleon III. |
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1856 |
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Vollon registers at the Louvre as a student of Hippolyte Flandrin, probably in order to copy paintings there. Three years later, he settles definitively in Paris. |
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| 1860 |
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He befriends the Barbizon painter Charles-François Daubigny and meets the Realist School artist Théodule Ribot who, with Octave Tassaert, Camille Corot and François Bonvin, influence his early style. He marries Marie-Fanny Boucher, by whom he has two children: Alexis, a painter, and Marguerite. |
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| 1863 |
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His first submission to the Paris Salon is rejected. He exhibits at the Salon des Refusés, where Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe causes a sensation. |
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| 1864 |
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Vollon exhibits at the Salon for the first time. |
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| 1865 |
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Bazille and Monet share a studio in Paris. |
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| 1866 |
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Vollon is represented at the Exposition des Beaux-Arts in Rouen; his Singe du peintre is purchased by the Musée des Beaux-Arts there.
Émile Zola defends the Impressionists, especially Manet. |
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| 1867 |
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The Exposition Universelle is held in Paris. Manet and Courbet each set up pavilions nearby dedicated to their own work. |
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| 1869 |
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Vollon paints with Carpeaux at the Channel port of Le Tréport; he begins Poissons de mer (Musée d’Orsay, Paris), exhibited the next year at the Salon. |
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| 1870 |
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Vollon is decorated Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. By December, he settles in Brussels.
This catastrophic year is marked by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, the proclamation of the Third Republic and the Siege of Paris. Monet and Pissarro take refuge in England. |
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| 1871 |
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Vollon travels to Haarlem, Amsterdam and (with Boudin) Antwerp.
France is defeated by Germany. The Paris uprising known as the Commune is violently suppressed. |
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| 1873 |
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He paints at Dieppe, returning there occasionally until 1876. |
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| 1874 |
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The first Impressionist Exhibition takes place in Nadar’s studio (subsequent ones occur in 1876, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882 & 1886). |
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| 1875 |
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Vollon exhibits at the Salon Le Cochon (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario). |
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| 1876 |
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He exhibits Femme du Pollet, à Dieppe (Gemeente-museum, The Hague) to great critical applause. |
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| 1878 |
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At the Exposition Universelle, Vollon is awarded a Gold Medal.
The Faure and Hoschedé collections of Impressionist art are put up at auction, achieving risible prices. |
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| 1879 |
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Vollon’s first solo exhibition takes place on the premises of the popular new arts journal La Vie Moderne. |
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| 1882 |
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The art critic Albert Wolff commissions two Paris cityscapes from Vollon. |
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| 1883 |
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Nine paintings by Vollon are exhibited at the National Academy of Design, New York, to help pay for the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty.
The first major exhibition in the United States of
Impressionist paintings takes place in Boston. |
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| 1886 |
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Vollon exhibits his first landscape at the Salon, entitled Vue de Tréport (The John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Seurat completes A Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte (Art Institute of Chicago). |
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| 1889 |
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Vollon serves on the jury of the Exposition Universelle and exhibits there. The Eiffel Tower is completed in
time for the exhibition’s opening. |
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| 1891 |
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Seurat dies. Gauguin makes his first trip to the South Pacific, where he settles definitively four years later. |
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| 1894 |
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Caillebotte dies, bequeathing much of his collection of Impressionist paintings to the French State. |
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| 1897 |
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Vollon is elected to membership in the Institut de France. |
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| 1900 |
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At the Exposition Universelle, his eight entries, including L’Automne (exhibited here), earn him the Grand Prix.
July: He suffers a stroke while painting at Versailles and later contracts a deadly fever. He dies on August 27. Two days later, he is buried at the Père-Lachaise
cemetery. |
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| 1901 |
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May 20-23: The contents of Vollon’s studio are sold at auction at the Hôtel Drouot. |
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