May 15–November 15 – Exposition Universelle in Paris, including a salon for art. Gustave Courbet, having had several of his paintings rejected, including the monumental The Painter's Studio (L'Atelier du peintre, "a real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral life"), exhibits in a temporary Pavillon du Réalisme adjacent to the official show, creating both public outrage and artistic admiration. The official exhibition includes a retrospective of the paintings of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
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