Paris, April 15, 1874, eight o'clock in the evening, in the former studio of the famous photographer Nadar, on Boulevard des Capucines. On the 2nd and 3rd floors of the building, some 30 painters gathered to present some 165 works to the public. Relive the opening night of the first Impressionist exhibition in virtual reality!
The painters involved in the presentation included Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas.
Equipped with a virtual reality headset, enter the hushed atmosphere of this first Impressionist exhibition - reconstructed for the first time - and meet the painters at a time when they were young artists with an uncertain destiny.
As you stroll along, you will wander outside the exhibition, to the places that marked the beginnings of the movement. You'll be transported to the Salon, then to the studio of painter Frédéric Bazille, where the idea for the exhibition was born; to the island of Grenouillère, where Monet and Renoir painted together; and finally to Le Havre, where Monet executed his famous painting Impression, Soleil Levant.
These escapes will shed light on the relationship between the members of the group and the importance of the artistic movement they were inventing.