Salon of 1777

The Salon of 1777 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. Part of the regular series of Salons organised by the Académie Royale, it ran from 25 August to 25 September 1777.[1] It was the second to take place during the reign of Louis XVI following the Salon of 1775. As was traditional it opened on the feast day of Saint Louis.

The Coronation of Louis XVI in 1775 had been the first coronation of a French monarch in sixty years. The noted portraitist Joseph-Siffred Duplessis displayed a picture of the new king in his coronation robes. The image was widely reproduced and a number versions exist. This cemented the artist's rapid rise to the top rank of painters.[2] His portrait of Eléonore Elisabeth Angélique de Beauterne, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was praised for its naturalism.[3]

Neoclassicism was strongly represented. François-André Vincent displayed fifteen paintings including two notable scenes from ancient history Alcibiades Being Taught by Socrates and Belisarius.[4] [5] Vincent became a major rival of Jacques-Louis David, who as this time was still at the French Academy in Rome with their joint mentor Joseph-Marie Vien.[6] The sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon featured a number of works including a bust of Diana[7] and Morphée.[8] Hubert Robert displayed views of the gardens at the Palace of Versailles, commissioned by Louis XVI to show in the process of being redesigned.[9]

Nicolas-Guy Brenet exhibited the history painting Homage Rendered to Du Guesclin featuring a scene featuring Bertrand du Guesclin from the Hundred Years War. This marked a new direction in French history painting, encouraged by Count of Angiviller as the new director-general of the Bâtiments du Roi.[10] A pendant piece The Continence of Bayard was commissioned by Angiviller from Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau.[11] Brenet also displayed Jeune femme levant un voile.[12]

Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier's Afternoon Tea at the Temple depicts the child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performing on the harpsichord for a gathering at the Parisian residence of the Prince of Conti during the Mozart family grand tour in the 1760s.[13]

It was followed by the Salon of 1779, the first to take place following France's entry into the American War of Independence.

See also

  • Royal Academy Exhibition of 1777, held in London

References

  1. ^ Baetjer p.29
  2. ^ Baetjer p.196
  3. ^ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436235
  4. ^ Chastel p.361
  5. ^ Bermingham & Brewer p.90
  6. ^ Williams p.284
  7. ^ Poulet p.218
  8. ^ https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010095107
  9. ^ Born p.77
  10. ^ Levey p.230
  11. ^ Levey p.230
  12. ^ https://www.ader-paris.fr/lot/140660/23345800-nicolas-guy-brenet-paris-1728-1792-jeune-femme-levant-un?
  13. ^ Hanning, Barbara Russano ·Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe

Bibliography

  • Baetjer, Katharine. French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Bermingham, Ann & Brewer, John (ed.)Consumption Of Culture, 1600-1800. Taylor & Francis, 2013.
  • Born, Deborah Lee. The Life and Works of Hubert Robert. University of California Press, 1977.
  • Chastel, André. French Art: The Ancien Régime, 1620-1775. Flammarion, 1994.
  • Hanning, Barbara Russano ·Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe. Taylor & Francis, 2024.
  • Levey, Michael. Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789. Yale University Press, 1993.
  • Poulet, Anne L. Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
  • Williams, Hannah. Académie Royale: A History in Portraits. Taylor & Francis, 2017.
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