Henri Matisse exhibits four paintings at the backward-looking Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1896 and scores a triumph; he is elected an associate member of the Salon society, and the government purchases his Woman Reading (1894; Musée National d'Arte Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris)
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Henri Matisse, Woman Reading Woman Reading (La Liseuse), 1895, oil on board, 61.5 x 48 cm, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse.