A Calamity in Pigment: Archibald Plimpton-Smythe on the First Impressionist Exhibition (Paris, 1874)
Edited, Annotated, and Introduced by Sarah Hilton of Pimlico Wilde, from the copy discovered by Mr. Leonard Forsythe, Antiquarian Bookseller Editor’s Introduction The review reproduced below, originally published in La Gazette des Beaux-Arts et Autres Déplaisirs (Paris, May 1874), represents one of the earliest surviving accounts of the group later canonised as the “Impressionists.” Its … Read more