Salon of 1761
The Salon of 1761 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. Staged during the reign of Louis XV and at a time when the Seven Years War against Britain and Prussia. was at its height, it reflected the taste of the Ancien régime during the mid-eighteenth century. The biannual Salon was organised by the Académie Royale. Jean Siméon Chardin was in charge of choosing hanging locations for the two hundred or so works on display.[1] A number of submissions were Rococo in style. The art critic Denis Diderot wrote extensively about the Salon.[2]
The exhibition was notable for the paintings of Jean-Baptiste Greuze who displayed fourteen works including The Laundress and The Village Bride.[3] François Boucher submitted a pastoral work Shepherd and Shepherdess Reposing.[4] The Swedish artist Alexander Roslin produced portraits both of Boucher and his wife Marie-Jeanne. Louis-Michel van Loo exhibited his Portrait of Louis XV, now a lost work but with several contemporary copies surviving.[5] Joseph Vernet displayed two versions of View of Bayonne, part of his Views of the Ports of France series. Charles-André van Loo exhibited Mary Magdalene in the Desert and Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays's The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, which were praised by Diderot.[6] [7]
Sculptures on display included Nymph Drying Her Hair by Louis-Claude Vassé, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[8] Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne exhibited a bust of Mademoiselle Clairon, an actress of the Comédie-Française.[9] A total of thirty three painters, eleven engravers and nine sculptors took part in the Salon.[10] It was followed by the Salon of 1763.
Gallery
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View of Bayonne by Claude-Joseph Vernet
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Portrait of Louis XV by Louis-Michel van Loo
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Portrait of Louise-Élisabeth of France by Jean-Marc Nattier
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Portrait of the Marquis De Marigny by Alexander Roslin
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The Sliced Melon by Jean Siméon Chardin
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Jar of Apricots by Jean Siméon Chardin
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Basket of Wild Strawberries by Jean Siméon Chardin
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Portrait of François Boucher by Alexander Roslin
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Portrait of Marie-Jeanne Boucher by Alexander Roslin
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Shepherd and Shepherdess Reposing by François Boucher
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Allegory in Honour of the Publication of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle by Jacques Dumont le Romain
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Nymph Drying Her Hair by Louis-Claude Vassé
References
[edit]- ^ Bailey p.11
- ^ Rosenblum p.51
- ^ Bailey p.14
- ^ Rosenblum p.51
- ^ https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=65411&viewType=detailView
- ^ Levey p.3
- ^ Schechter p.110-11
- ^ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/205413
- ^ Levey p.93
- ^ Levey p.3
Bibliography
[edit]- Bailey, Colin B. Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress. Getty Publications, 2000.
- Levey, Michael. Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789. Yale University Press, 1993.
- Rosenblum, Robert. Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art. Princeton University Press, 1970.
- Schechter, Ronald. A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France. University of Chicago Press, 2018.