The seventh Impressionist exhibition is held in…

The seventh Impressionist exhibition is held in 1882 in Paris, organized by Paul Durand-Ruel, at 251 rue St. Honoré.

Durand-Ruel contributes twenty-five paintings from his holdings to the seventh group show, although Renoir has declined to participate.

For the past six years, Gustave Caillebotte has been the chief organizer, promoter, and financial backer of the Impressionist exhibitions, and he has used his wealth to purchase works by other Impressionists, notably Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, and Berthe Morisot.

As a painter, his originality lies in his attempt to combine the careful drawing and modeling and exact tonal values advocated by the Académie with the vivid colors, bold perspectives, keen sense of natural light, and modern subject matter of the Impressionists.

Morisot exhibits nine paintings and pastels with the group and then spends the summer in Bougival.

Sisley exhibits twenty-seven landscapes at the group show, and in September moves to Moret-sur-Loing.

Pissarro, who exhibits thirty-six paintings and gouaches at the seventh group exhibition, moves to Osny near Pontoise.