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1860 Under the influence of Ingres and the Italian masters, Degas
is strongly drawn to historical painting and soon produces
several pictures on legendary and mythological themes.
1860 Large-scale exhibition in Paris of Modern Painting ( Delacroix,
Corot, Courbet, Millet).
1861 "Semiramis founding a City."
1861 Ingres, now 81, paints "Le Bain turc."
1862 Degas strikes up a friendship with Manet. First pictures of
jockeys.
1863 Salon des Refusés. Manet "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe."
Death of Delacroix.
1864 Birth of Toulouse-Lautrec.
1865 "The Evils befalling the City of Orléans," after which Degas
repudiates historical painting. "Woman with Chrysanthe-
mums" and many portraits date from this period. Through
Manet he meets the young Impressionists-to-be. Gatherings
at the Café Guerbois, near the Place Clichy, in which Zola and
Duranty also take part.
1865 Manet exhibits "Olympia" at the Salon.
1867 The Goncourt brothers publish "Manette Salomon." Birth
of Bonnard. Death of Ingres and Baudelaire. Monet "Women
in the Garden." Courbet Exhibition.
1868 "Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet 'La Source'" and "The Orchestra at the Paris Opera."
1868 Birth of Vuillard. Corot paints "Woman with a Pearl."
1869 Birth of Matisse. Manet paints "The Balcony." Renoir and
Monet work at Bougival. The impressionist technique takes
form.
1870 Called up for duty in the Franco-Prussian War, Degas serves in
an artillery unit manning a fortress near Paris.
1870 Fantin-Latour paints "The Studio at Batignolles."
1872 Degas takes to visiting the rehearsal rooms of the opera dancers
in the Rue Le Pelletier. In October he sails for New Orleans
with his brother René, remaining in the United States until
April 1873. "The Cotton Office." "Woman with a Vase of
Flowers."

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Publication Information: Book Title: Degas. Contributors: Francois Fosca - author, James Emmons - transltr. Publisher: Albert Skira. Place of Publication: Geneva. Publication Year: 1954. Page Number: 6.
    
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