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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.
Exhibited at the 1875 Paris Salon, and the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Domestic Life in Normandy (1878) In the Studio: Portrait of Miss H. (1880), Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. [26] The Puritan Maiden (1881). [27] Part of the group that won a medal at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Accused of Witchcraft ...
Borglum created several animal groups while in Paris, including Lassoing Wild Horses and The Stampede of Wild Horses, which were shown at the Paris Salon in 1898 and 1899, respectively. The year 1903 was a banner one for the artist. He had a one-man show of thirty-two small sculptures at the Keppel Gallery, New York.
The Database of Salon Artists is a resource listing every submission to the Paris Salon between 1827 and 1850, using information derived from the original Salon registers now held in the Archives des Musées Nationaux, part of the Service des Bibliothèques, des Archives et de la Documentation Générale des Musées de France.
The Horse Fair is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Rosa Bonheur, begun in 1852 and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1853. Bonheur added some finishing touches in 1855. The large work measures 96.25 in × 199.5 in (244.5 cm × 506.7 cm). [1]
The word salon also refers to art exhibitions. The Paris Salon was originally an officially sanctioned exhibit of recent works of painting and sculpture by members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, starting in 1673 and soon moving from the Salon Carré of the Palace of the Louvre.
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He submitted more than 750 entries in more than fifty exhibitions, including work exhibited at major exhibitions, such as the Paris Salon of 1886 and 1887, the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1898, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, international expositions in Argentina and Chile 1910, and the Panama-Pacific ...