Salon of 1814

The Salon of 1814 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris from 5 November 1814. It was the first Salon to be held since the defeat of Napoleon and the Bourbon Restoration that brought Louis XVIII to the throne.[1] It featured a mixture of paintings and works of sculpture.

One of the most celebrated artists of the Napoleonic regime Jacques-Louis David had gone into exile and was absent from the Salon. However, Léon Matthieu Cochereau exhibited his Interior of David's Studio.[2] Several of the works had appeared at earlier exhibitions such as Théodore Gericault's The Charging Chasseur which had featured in the Salon of 1812.[3] By contrast Géricault's The Wounded Cuirassier was shown for the first time.[4] Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres wanted his entries "to cause some noise" and demonstrate the supremacy of history painting above all other genres.[5] Anicet Lemonnier enjoyed success with his depiction of eighteenth century Paris In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755.[6] British artist John Crome, who was visiting Paris, exhibited a view of Norwich. This anticipated the breakthrough by British landscape paintings a decade later at the Salon of 1824.[7]

François Gérard, a noted painter of the Napoleonic era, rushed to complete his Portrait of Louis XVIII in time for the exhibition.[8] It was followed by the Salon of 1817 which was more overt in its support of the Bourbon dynasty.

Paintings

Sculptures

See also

References

  1. ^ Crow p.20
  2. ^ Harkett & Hornstein p.203
  3. ^ "Officier de chasseurs a cheval de la garde impériale chargeant". pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  4. ^ "Cuirassier blesse quittant le feu". pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  5. ^ Harkett & Hornstein p.144
  6. ^ Lilti p.1
  7. ^ Nonn & Bann p.51
  8. ^ Sérullaz p.102

Bibliography

  • Crow, Thomas. Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812–1820. Princeton University Press, 2023.
  • Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
  • Lilti, Antoine. The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-century Paris. Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics. Tate, 2003.
  • Sérullaz, Arlette. French Painting: The Revolutionary Decades, 1760–1830. Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1980.

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