19th century

The 19th century refers to the century of salons, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, photography, and urban modernity. It is not merely a classification label: it is a way of understanding what exhibitions show, the questions they raise, and the audiences they can reach. Historical context is essential. Political revolutions, industrialization, the press, world exhibitions, and the transformation of Paris modify the relationship with the landscape, the body, labor, and the public. Reading an exhibition through this prism therefore allows us to place works within a chronology, but also within specific usages: commission, collection, transmission, criticism, the market, memory, or experimentation. Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Degas, Rodin, Nadar, or academic artists allow us to follow the conflicts between tradition, the market, and the avant-garde. Within the Expo Paris corpus, this hub serves as a cross-reference point even when few exhibitions are still linked to it. It prepares future mapping and helps recognize exhibitions belonging to this field. The 19th century is decisive because it invents a great part of our modern idea of art: the exhibition, criticism, photography, the museum, the independent artist, and urban life. To prepare a visit, it is useful to observe dates, supports, lenders, the role of archives, the presence of female artists or less known scenes, as well as links proposed to other themes, movements, and Parisian places. On Expo Paris, the page /fr/époques/xixe-siecle/ is intended to become a navigation dossier: it gathers associated exhibitions, clarifies concepts, and helps choose between a historical approach, discovery of artists, heritage reading, or contemporary experience.

19th century is useful on Expo Paris because it places exhibitions inside a readable chronology instead of leaving them as isolated events. 16 linked exhibitions already give this page a concrete editorial role in the English navigation.

This period becomes more legible when read through artists such as Auguste Renoir. Movements like Modern art, Post-Impressionism, and Impressionism help explain its formal and cultural tensions. Subjects such as Portraits of artists show how the same era can be approached from several angles.

• Auguste Renoir - 2 exhibitions
• Modern art - 5 exhibitions
• Post-Impressionism - 4 exhibitions
• Impressionism - 3 exhibitions
• Portraits of artists - 2 exhibitions
• Cubism
• Cinema and photography
• Claude Monet

These routes preserve a reliable reading path in English, even before every related historical branch has been reopened in strict mode.