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With consummate skill, Ross King resurrects the rivalry between the French art establishment and the artists who gave birth to the Impressionist movement. Focusing on the decade between two famous exhibitions, the shocking Salon des Refusés in 1863 and the first Impressionist showing in 1874, King centers his story on two artistic opposites, Ernest Meissonier and Edouard Manet. Filled with detail and insight, the movement brilliantly unfolds as do the culture and artists that populate its history.