L'apparition de l'École du Nord. L'émergence des artistes scandinaves dans la critique d'art française dans les années 1880

During the 1880's, Scandinavian artists became very successful in France, and in 1889, at the time of the Paris World's Fair, several French critics went as far as to say the Scandinavians were the best among foreign artists. Given the fact that most French critics had ignored the Scandinavian artistic sections of the 1878 Paris World's Fair, the Scandinavian success in France during the 1880's appears as a new and surprising phenomenon. This article proposes to examine the known origins of this success and bring forward several new explanations such as the impact of the Copenhagen International Exhibition of 1888 on French critics