Salon of 1799
{{Short description|1799 art exhibition in Paris}}
File:Naudet - Girodet Directing the Hanging of The New Danae in the Salon.jpg
The Salon of 1799 was French art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. Part of the then annual sequence of Salons, it took place during the French Directory a few months before the following Napoleon Bonaparte's Coup established him as dominant ruler. It was held at a time when the government was shifting towards a harder more Jacobin Republicanism due to the external threats against France.Crow p.229
Girodet, a former pupil of Jacques-Louis David, exhibited his Mademoiselle Lange as Venus. However the portrait of the celebrated theatre actress did not please her feel it reflected her beauty and she refused to pay him the full amount. In return he replaced the portrait at the Salon with a second painting, a mocking allegory Mademoiselle Lange as Danae.Murray p.423 Crow p.229-30The Return of Marcus Sextus by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin featured a neoclassical scene from thje era of the Roman Republic. Guillaume Guillon-Lethière exhibited his The Fatherland in Danger, showing volunteers enlisting for military service, which was a popular success.Heuer p.144
In portraiture François Gérard, another protégé of David, drew praise for his depiction of Laure Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély.Tinterow & Conisbee 41 It was followed by the Salon of 1800, the first to be held under the dictatorship of Napoleon.
Gallery
File:Girodet-Trioson - Mademoiselle Lange as Venus, 1798.jpg|Mademoiselle Lange as Venus by Girodet
File:Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson - Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae - 69.22 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg|Mademoiselle Lange as Danae by Girodet
File:The Return of Marcus Sextus 1799 Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.jpg|The Return of Marcus Sextus by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
File:Guillaume Guillon Lethière - Patrie en danger 01.jpg|The Fatherland in Danger by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
File:Adele Papin playing the harp - Guillon-Lethiere.jpg|Adèle Papin Playing the Harp by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
File:Girl with Portfolio by Guillaume Lethiere.jpg|Portrait of a Girl with Portfolio by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
File:Marie-Victoire Lemoine - A young woman leaning on the edge of a window (Une jeune femme appuyee sur le bord d’une croisee).jpg|A Young Woman Leaning on the Edge of a Window by Marie-Victoire Lemoine
File:Gérard Laure de Bonneuil.jpg|Portrait of Laure de Bonneuil by François Gérard
File:Adélaide Labille-Guiard - Comedian Tournelle 1799.jpg|Portrait of Dublin-Tornelle by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
References
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Bibliography
- Crow, Thomas. Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France. Yale University Press, 2006.
- Heuer, Jennifer Ngaire. The Soldier's Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Princeton University Press, 2024.
- Murray, Christopher John. Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Volume 2. Taylor & Francis, 2004.
- Tinterow, Gary & Conisbee, Philip (ed.) Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.