Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists

{{Short description|Painting by François Joseph Heim}}

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| artist= François Joseph Heim

| year= 1827

| type=Oil on canvas, history painting

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Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists (French: Charles X distribuant des récompenses aux artistes exposants du salon de 1824 au Louvre, le 15 Janvier 1825) is an 1827 painting by the French artist François Joseph Heim.Bouillo p.128Moon & Taws p.170 It depicts the French monarch Charles X awarding legion of honours to artists who exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1824 at a ceremony held on 15 January 1825. The King who had succeeded his brother Louis XVIII in 1824 is shown in the uniform of the National Guard.De Saint-Amand p.249 It features portraits of many of the leading artists of the era. The royal official Ambroise-Polycarpe de La Rochefoucauld and the director of the Louvre Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin are shown close to the king.Mansell p.94 Heim became a celebrated depicter of scenes of the Bourbon Restoration. It is now in the collection of the Louvre and is displayed in the Salon Carré.{{cite web | url=https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065951 | title=Charles X distribuant des récompenses aux artistes exposants du salon de 1824 au Louvre, le 15 Janvier 1825 | date=1827 }}