Salon (Paris)
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The Salon, or sometimes Paris Salon, beginning in 1667, was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial a
Formally dressed patrons at the Salon in 1890. Un Jour de vernissage au palais des Champs-Élysées by Jean-André Rixens featuring Tigresse apportant un paon à ses petits by Auguste Cain.
Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists for the Salon of 1824. An 1827 painting by François Joseph Heim, now in the Louvre.
This portrait by John Singer Sargent of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau depicting her cleavage caused considerable controversy when it was displayed at the 1884 Salon.
Salon of 1753
Salon of 1824
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The Salon of 1824 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris between 25 August 1824 and 15 January 1825. It took place during the Restoration Era that followed the downfall of Napoleon's French
The Massacre at Chios by Eugène Delacroix
The Hay Wain by John Constable
A Fishmarket near Boulogne by Richard Parkes Bonington