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Benet Davetian "The History and Meaning of Salons" James Ross, 'Music in the French Salon'; in Caroline Potter and Richard Langham Smith (eds.), French Music Since Berlioz (Ashgate Press, 2006), pp. 91–115. ISBN 0-7546-0282-6. Mainardi, Patricia. The End of the Salon: Art and the State of the Early Republic.
Indeed, according to Jolanta T. Pekacz, the fact women dominated history of the salons meant that study of the salons was often left to amateurs, while men concentrated on 'more important' (and masculine) areas of the Enlightenment. [27] Portrait of Mme Geoffrin, salonnière, by Marianne Loir (National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC)
The Salon (French: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris [salɔ̃ də paʁi]), beginning in 1667 [1] 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 art event in the Western world.
Louis Philippe commissioned the work to hang in the city hall as a commemoration of the events. The National Guard, supporters of his, feature prominently in the painting. [2] It was exhibited at the Salon of 1836. [3] Today, it remains in the collection of the Hôtel de Ville. A reproduction was produced by Éloi Firmin Féron. [4]
The young artist Théodore Chassériau received third-place medal in the category of history painting. [11] A young British artist Thomas Jones Barker also appeared for the first time. When one of Théodore Rousseau's paintings was rejected by the jury, he refused to enter the salon again until the Salon of 1849. [12]
[2] A saloon of the same name later opened in a different location on Main Street, along with many of the original site's decorations (including the chair in which Hickok was supposedly sitting when he was shot, although this has never been verified), and renamed the Saloon #10. The two are not related in any way but name.
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In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755 is an 1812 oil painting by the French artist Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier. [1] It depicts the salon of Marie Thérèse Geoffrin in Paris at the middle of the eighteenth century. A conversation piece it depicts many figures from the Age of Enlightenment. [2]