The Exposition Universelle, a world's fair, opens…
April 1900 CE
The Exposition shows one hundred Years of French art with a large representation of Impressionism including works by Camille Pissarro, who stays in Paris and visits Dieppe and Berneval, continuing to work with freshness of vision and increasing freedom in his technique.
The Exposition features a pavilion in which one hundred and fifty of Auguste Rodin's sculptures and numerous drawings are displayed, testifying to the international scope of his fame
Rodin has long has been revered as a modern-day Michelangelo, a titan of sculpture, and an incarnation of the power of inspired genius; even his prodigious sensuality is excused as a symbol of his Olympian stature.
Paul Cézanne exhibits at the Exposition, and galleries finally begin to seek his works; the National Gallery in Berlin purchases a landscape as early as 1900.
Edgar Degas' works are exhibited also at the Centennial exhibition, although without his approval.
Cecile de Wentworth's portrait of Pope Leo XIII wins a bronze medal at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900 and will prompt the pope to decorate her with the title of grand commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and to make her a papal marchesa. (The portrait will later hang in the Vatican Museum.)
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