Plein Air Painting and the Adoption of Portable Paints (1840–1880)

1. Early Barbizon painters work in Fontainebleau

   Jan 1, 1820Labels: Barbizon school, Forest of

   • Met Museum
   • Britannica

2. Barbizon School coalesces around naturalism

   Jan 1, 1830Labels: Barbizon school

   • Britannica
   • Grove A C

3. Moist watercolours marketed for outdoor use

   Jan 1, 1835Labels: Winsor &

   • WinsorNewton

4. Glass syringes replace paint bladders

   Jan 1, 1840Labels: Winsor &, glass syringe

   • WinsorNewton

5. Rand patents collapsible metal paint tube

   Sep 11, 1841Labels: John G, paint tube

   • Rand Bio

6. Screw-cap tube patented for collapsible tubes

   Jan 1, 1842Labels: William Winsor, screw-cap tube

   • WinsorNewton

7. Artists lodge at Auberge Ganne to paint outdoors

   Jan 1, 1846Labels: Auberge Ganne, Barbizon

   • Met Museum
   • Britannica

8. Boudin introduces Monet to outdoor painting

   Jan 1, 1856Labels: Eug ne, Claude Monet

   • Nat Gallery

9. Monet and Boudin paint together at Le Havre

   Jun 1, 1858Labels: Monet, Eug ne

   • View Rouelles
   • Nat Gallery

10. Whistler paints at Trouville alongside Courbet

    Oct 1, 1865Labels: James McNeill, Gustave Courbet

    • Sea Rain

11. Père Tanguy begins selling paints to artists

    Jan 1, 1868Labels: P re, paint dealer

    • Tanguy

12. Monet completes major winter plein air snowscape

    Dec 1, 1868Labels: Claude Monet, The Magpie

    • Magpie
    • UMich VRC

13. Monet and Renoir paint La Grenouillère together

    Sep 25, 1869Labels: Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir

    • Met Museum
    • Grenouillere

14. Monet paints Impression, Sunrise at Le Havre

    Jan 1, 1872Labels: Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise

    • Impression
    • Britannica

15. Père Tanguy opens Paris artists’ supply shop

    Jan 1, 1873Labels: P re, rue Clauzel

    • Tanguy

16. Independent artists form Société anonyme

    Dec 27, 1873Labels: Soci t, Impressionists

    • 1st Exhibit

17. Eight Impressionist exhibitions continue through 1880s

    Jan 1, 1874Labels: Impressionist exhibitions

    • Britannica

18. First Impressionist exhibition opens in Paris

    Apr 15, 1874Labels: First Impressionist, Nadar studio

    • Britannica
    • 1st Exhibit

19. Louis Leroy popularizes term “Impressionists”

    Apr 25, 1874Labels: Louis Leroy, Impressionists

    • 1st Exhibit
    • Impression