However, to be completely exhaustive, we should add to these painters, other actors without whom impressionism would never have reached the heights it has today.
And that's it, this ranking is finished. However, to be completely exhaustive, we should add to these painters, other actors without whom impressionism would never have reached the heights it has today. Without the merchants who gave their confidence (Durand Ruel, Ambroise Vollard, Père Tanguy), without the collectors who gave their support (Victor Chocquet, Théodore Duret, Charles Ephrussi, Ernest Hoschedé... ), without the art critics who participated in their promotion (Emile Zola, Charles Baudelaire, Edmond Duranty) and without their faithful friends, patrons, and painters of inferior renown (Armand Guillaumin, Henri Rouart, Henri Fantin-Latour, Eugène Boudin, Gauguin, Nadar...) the impressionist artists would certainly have kept their place as decadent painters on the bangs of official art, condemned to contempt, to quick oblivion and to the silence of eternity.