Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, 1872.

Manet exhibited The Railway at the Paris Salon of 1874. The impressionists pictured above were among the progressive artists who sought an alternative to this official, juried Salon. Manet was invited to join them in their independent exhibition held in that spring. But he chose to exhibit in the arena where, for years, his work had invoked both respect and protest.

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