Salon of 1844

The Love of Gold by Thomas Couture

The Salon of 1844 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris.[1] The annual Salon was organised by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and featured submissions from the leading artists and sculptors of the July Monarchy era. It continued to foreground the themes of Romanticism and Orientalism. Significantly, however, the Realist painter Gustave Courbet had his first piece of work Self-Portrait with a Black Dog accepted for the Salon.[2] Several works commissioned for the Salles des Croisades at the Palace of Versailles were exhibited.

Other paintings on display included The Temptation of Saint Hilarion by Dominique Papety[3] and the The Love of Gold by Thomas Couture. Camille Corot produced a biblical scene The Destruction of Sodom, which he reworked and exhibited again fourteen years later at the Salon of 1857.[4]

References

Bibliography

  • Allard, Sébastien & Fabre, Côme. Delacroix. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.
  • Boime, Albert. Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815-1848. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
  • Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein Air Painting and Artistic Identity in Nineteenth-Century France. Reaktion Books, 2015.
  • Norman, Geraldine. Nineteenth-century Painters and Painting: A Dictionary. University of California Press, 1977.

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