Salon of 1864

The Salon of 1864 was an art exhibition held at the Palace of Industry in Paris. Organised by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, it opened on 1 May 1864. It featured submissions from leading artists, sculptors and architects of the Second Empire period.

Ernest Meissonier's French Campaign, 1814 features a scene from the Napoleonic Wars.[1] He also submitted Napoleon III at the Battle of Solferino, depicting the French Emperor Napoleon III at the Battle of Solferino during the Second Italian War of Independence.[2] The emperor purchased Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 's Souvenir de Mortefontaine for 3,000 Francs.[3] James Tissot displayed two works Portrait of Mademoiselle L.L. and The Two Sisters, both featuring the same model. The latter drew attention as it was painted En plein air.[4]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir made his Salon debut with Esmeralda, a painting based on Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, which he subsequently destroyed.[5] Henri Fantin-Latour's Homage to Delacroix paid tribute to the late artist Eugène Delacroix, one of the major figures of the Romantic movement.[6] Amongst other works on display were Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau and the history painting The Oath of Henri de Guise by Pierre-Charles Comte.

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References

  1. ^ Milner p.10
  2. ^ Tintertow & Loyrette p.33
  3. ^ Tinterow p.303
  4. ^ Marshall & Warner p.38
  5. ^ Tinterow & Loyrette p.451
  6. ^ Ives & Barker p.226

Bibliography

  • Ives, Colta Feller & Barker, Elizabeth E. Romanticism & the School of Nature. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
  • Marshall, Nancy Rose & Warner, Malcolm. James Tissot: Victorian Life, Modern Love. Yale University Press, 1999.
  • Milner, John. Art, War and Revolution in France, 1870-1871: Myth, Reportage and Reality. Yale University Press, 2000.
  • Tinterow, Gary. Corot. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.
  • Tinterow, Gary & Loyrette, Henri. Origins of Impressionism. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994.
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