Salon (Paris)

The Salon's original focus was the display of the work of recent graduates of the École des Beaux-Arts, which was created by Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, in 1648.Exhibition at the Salon de Paris was essential for any artist to achieve success in France for at least the next 200 years.The French salon, a product of the Enlightenment in the early 18th century, was a key institution in which women played a central role.The Salon of 1824 was noted for its displays of British paintings by John Constable, Thomas Lawrence and Richard Parkes Bonington.The vernissage (varnishing) of opening night was a grand social occasion, and a crush that gave subject matter to newspaper caricaturists like Honoré Daumier.The increasingly conservative and academic juries were not receptive to the Impressionist painters,[5] whose works were usually rejected, or poorly placed if accepted.
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.
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