Gustave Caillebotte was the main backer of several of these exhibitions, & his own work is kind of in that style
The artistic career of Gustave Caillebotte (1848  1894) began with ... held 
annually in Paris, rejected his submission, The Floor Scrapers ... Renoir, Alfred 
Sisley, and Claude Monet, Caillebotte's work garnered consid- ... them organize 
exhibitions.