Salon of 1787
{{Short description|1787 art exhibition in Paris}}
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The Salon of 1787 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris between 25 August and 23 September 1787. It was the final Salon to take place under the Ancien Régime before the outbreak of the French Revolution two years later. Organised by the Académie Royale it featured submissions from leading painters and sculptors.
One of the most notable paintings on display was The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David. A neoclassical history painting it depicts the Execution of the philosopher Socrates in Ancient Athens.Marandel p.60 A work featuring the same subject by David's rival Jean-François Pierre Peyron was also shown. Hubert Robert presented a series of four paintings known as the Principal Monuments of France, which featured the ruins of Roman architecture in Provence.
In portraiture thirty two artists displayed around a hundred works.Freund p.25 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun produced several notable paintings including a self-portrait with her daughter. Le Brun was noted particularly for her paintings displaying maternal love at the Salon.Walker p.122 Her Marie Antoinette and Her Children featured the French queen, who would be guillotined six years later, with her children the future Louis XVII and Marie Thérèse of France. In sculpture Jean-Antoine Houdon exhibited busts of Prince Henry of Prussia, Lafayette and George Washington.Poulet p.350
During the period the exhibition was biannual and has been proceeded by the Salon of 1785. It was followed by the Salon of 1789 which took place after the Storming of the Bastille.
Gallery
File:David - The Death of Socrates.jpg|The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David
File:Jean Francois Pierre Peyron - The Death of Socrates - Google Art Project.jpg|The Death of Socrate by Jean-François Pierre Peyron
File:Le pont du Gard - Hubert Robert - Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 7650.jpg|Le pont du Gard by Hubert Robert
File:L'Arc de triomphe et le théâtre d'Orange - Hubert Robert - Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 7647.jpg|The Arc de Triomphe and the Theatre of Orange by Hubert Robert
File:Hubert Robert - The Maison Carée, the Arenas and the Magne Tower in Nimes - WGA19601.jpg|The Maison Carée, the Arenas and the Magne Tower in Nimes by Hubert Robert
File:Intérieur du Temple de Diane à Nîmes (Hubert Robert, Louvre).jpeg|Inside the Temple of Diana in Nîmes by Hubert Robert
File:Bathers in a cave mg 0091.jpg|Bathers in a Cave by Joseph Vernet
File:Marie Antoinette and her Children by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.jpg|Marie Antoinette and Her Children by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
File:Madame Vigee-Lebrun and her daughter, Jeanne Lucia (Julie).jpg|Self-portrait with her Daughter, Julie by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
File:Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun - The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons Alexis and Adrien - Google Art Project.jpg|The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons Alexis and Adrien by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
File:Portrait de la comtesse de Beon - Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun.jpg|Portrait of the Comtesse de Béon by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
File:Vigée-Le Brunn - The comte d'Espagnac WLC WLC P449.jpg|Portrait of the Comte d'Espagnac by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
File:Portrait of the young Henri Bertholet-Campan (1784-1821) with the dog Aline - Nationalmuseum - 150908.tif|Portrait of Henri Bertholet-Campan by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller
File:Vestier - Nicolas Guy Brenet, peintre (1728-1792), 1786.jpg|Portrait of Nicolas-Guy Brenet by Antoine Vestier
File:Johann Heinrich Riesener ArM.jpg|Portrait of Jean Henri Riesener by Antoine Vestier
File:Gabriel-François Doyen.jpg|Portrait of Gabriel-François Doyen by Antoine Vestier
File:Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Portrait de Madame Élisabeth (1787).jpg|Portrait of Madame Élisabeth by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
File:Elisabeth de France Labille-Guiard 1787.jpg|Madame Élisabeth de France by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
File:Baron de Breteuil.jpg|Portrait of Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil by Jean-Laurent Mosnier
File:Henri-Horace Roland De La Porte - Still-Life with a Carafe of Barley Wine - WGA19663.jpg|Still-Life with a Carafe of Barley Wine by Henri-Horace Roland Delaporte
File:Vien - Les adieux d'Hector et d'Andromaque 01.jpg|The Farewell of Hector and Andromache by Joseph-Marie Vien
File:Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes - The Ancient City of Agrigento - WGA24226.jpg|The Ancient City of Agrigento by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
File:Joseph-Benoît Suvée - L'amiral Coligny en impose à ses assassins.png|Admiral de Coligny Impressing his Murderers by Joseph-Benoît Suvée
File:Jean Racine (Louvre, ENT 1987.06).jpg|Statue of Jean Racine by Louis-Simon Boizot
File:Molière Caffieri Louvre ENT 1987.08.JPG|Statue of Molière by Jean-Jacques Caffieri
References
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Bibliography
- Freund, Amy. Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France. Penn State University Press, 2014.
- Levey, Michael. Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789. Yale University Press, 1993.
- Marandel, Patrice. Europe in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.
- Poulet, Anne L. Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Sheriff, Mary D. The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
- Walker, Leslie H. A Mother's Love: Crafting Feminine Virtue in Enlightenment France. Associated University Presse, 2008.