Paysage

16 February 1841

Born

1861

The Académie Suisse: Pissarro, Cézanne, Oller

Studying at the Académie Suisse, he meets Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne, with whom he will maintain lifelong friendships, and Francisco Oller.

1863

The “Salon des Refusés” with Manet, Pissarro and Cézanne

Exhibits at the famous Salon des Refusés alongside Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne, although the works of Guillaumin (and Cézanne) were not listed under his name.

1868

Leaves his job for painting; hard times

Leaves his job to devote himself entirely to painting but is in need and earns his living by painting window blinds.

1874

The first Impressionist exhibition

Shows three landscapes at the first Impressionist exhibition, among them “Sunset at Ivry”, whose motif echoes Monet's “Impression, Sunrise”; he is a member of the Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs from the start. He later takes part in the exhibitions of 1877, 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1886 (other accounts say in all but the second, of 1876).

1891

A lottery win: he leaves his job for painting

Wins 100,000 francs in a lottery (a municipal one, according to other accounts a state lottery), is finally free of his administrative job in Paris and begins to travel in search of more varied subjects, devoting himself entirely to painting.