In April, it will be 150 years since a group of French painters put on a show at the former studio of the photographer Nadar in Paris.
They called themselves the Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs et Graveurs. They had squabbled over the name. One of their number argued for ‘La Capucine’, a reference to the address of Nadar’s studio at Boulevard des Capucines.
means nasturtium, and the idea was that this ‘victory flower’ could be a defiant symbol of the new brotherhood (which
