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1801
 
    
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor       
1806
 
   
French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years      
Ingres Monsieur de Norvins (detail) 1812
National Gallery, London

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1808
 
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An uprising in Madrid, brutally put down by the French, is vividly depicted by the Spanish painter Goya       
1815
 
   
Jacques-Louis David, unmistakably identified as Napoleon's painter, is banished from France after the fall of the emperor and moves to Brussels      
David Comtesse Vilain XIIII and her Daughter (detail) 1816
National Gallery, London

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1820
 
   
French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain      
1832
 
   
French painter Eugène Delacroix begins a five-month visit to north Africa, with profound effects on his future art      
1839
 
    
The French painter Gustave Courbet moves from his native town of Ornans to Paris       
1869
 
     
Young French artists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir paint together in the open air at La Grenouillère, developing the Impressionist style        
Monet Bathers at La Grenouillère (detail) 1869
National Gallery, London

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1869
 
   
French part-time painter Henri Rousseau becomes known as Douanier ('customs officer') Rousseau because of his paid employment      
1870
 
    
French artist Claude Monet, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War, arrives in London       
Monet The Thames below Westminster (detail) c.1871
National Gallery, London

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