A total of seventeen artists participate in…

A total of seventeen artists participate in the show, including the forty-two-year-old American painter Mary Cassatt, but former regular exhibitors Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley do not; nor does Claude Monet, who has exhibited but once since 1879.

However, Monet shows thirteen paintings and Renoir five at the fifth Exposition Internationále de la Peinture held at the Galerie Georges Petit.

Only Monet and Armand Guillaumin, to whose efforts the group owes much of its eventual recognition, are now in the strict sense Impressionists.

Monet, who turns forty-six this year, continues to build on the original foundation of the style, the rendering of visual impression through color in paintings that study a single motif in varying lights.

For him the formlessness and the homogeneity of Impressionism are its ultimate virtues.

His unusual paintings contain loose forms shaped by quick, broad brushstrokes of bright pigment, bathed in light.