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| 1820 |
| | French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain | |
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| 1832 |
| | French painter Eugène Delacroix begins a five-month visit to north Africa, with profound effects on his future art | |
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| 1839 |
| | The French painter Gustave Courbet moves from his native town of Ornans to Paris | |
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| 1869 |
| | Young French artists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir paint together in the open air at La Grenouillère, developing the Impressionist style | |
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| 1869 |
| | French part-time painter Henri Rousseau becomes known as Douanier ('customs officer') Rousseau because of his paid employment | |
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| 1870 |
| | French artist Claude Monet, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War, arrives in London | |
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| c. 1873 |
| | French painter Edgar Degas finds inspiration in the onstage and backstage world of ballet dancers | |
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| 1874 |
| | A group of French artists, including Renoir, Monet and Degas, exhibit their work independently in the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar | |
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| 1874 |
| | French critic Louis Leroy uses the term 'impressionism' to ridicule Monet's Impression, Sunrise, and unwittingly names a movement | |
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| 1883 |
| | French artist Claude Monet moves to Giverny, where he creates and paints a famous lily pond | |
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