Salon of 1819
{{Short description|1819 art exhibition in Paris}}
File:JEAN LOUIS THÉODORE GÉRICAULT - La Balsa de la Medusa (Museo del Louvre, 1818-19).jpg by Théodore Géricault]]
The Salon of 1819 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris between 25 August and 30 September 1819. It was the largest Salon to be staged since the fall of Napoleon.Boime p.145 It took place during the Restoration era with Louis XVIII on the throne. It was the first to be held since the withdrawal of Allied Occupation forces from the country at the end of the previous year. The two officials behind the exhibition the Count Forbin and Vicomte de Senonnes set out to make it even more a celebration of the House of Bourbon that the previous Salon of 1817.Boime p.145
More than thirteen hundred paintings were displayed at the Salon.Harkett & Hornstein p.155 Over a hundred paintings were in the then fashionable Troubadour style including Roger Freeing Angelica by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.Boime p.145 Alexander the Great Visiting Apelles by Marie Nicolas Ponce-Camus was rejected from submission as the jury believed it alluded to a visit Napoleon had made to the studio of Jacques-Louis David during the Hundred Days. By contrast Horace Vernet's Massacre of the Mamelukes, taken to be a covert reference to the White Terror against Napoleon's supporters, was allowed to be displayed.Boime p.145-46 Vernet exhibited a number of works at the Salon including The Dog of the Regiment Wounded.
Louis Hersent produced a popular history painting Gustave Vasa.Boime p.145
Amongst others who exhibited was the rising star Ary Scheffer.Spitzer p.31 The standout work was The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault depicting the shipwreck of the frigate Medusa.Miles p.178
Gallery
File:Portrait of Zoé Duvidal de Montferrier (Portrait of a Young Woman) by Julie Duvidal de Montferrier.jpg|Portrait of Zoé Jacqueline Duvidal de Montferrier by Julie Hugo
File:Dominiquin (Julie Charpentier).JPG|Domenichino by Julie Charpentier
File:Pygmalion et Galatée - Anne-Louis Girodet - Musée du Louvre Peintures RF 2002 4.jpg|Pygmalion and Galatea by Girodet
File:The Wounded Trumpeter.png|The Wounded Trumpeter by Horace Vernet
File:The Dog of the Regiment Wounded.png|The Dog of the Regiment Wounded
File:Massacre of the Mamelukes at Cairo.png|Massacre of the Mamelukes by Horace Vernet
File:François-Athanase de Charette de La Contrie.jpg|Portrait of François de Charette by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin
File:Alexandrine Jolly, dite Saint-Aubin by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guerin.jpg|Alexandrine Jolly'' by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin
File:Louise Bouteiller - Marie-Therese de France, duchesse d'Angouleme, circa 1819 03.jpg|Portrait of the Duchess of Angoulême by Louise Bouteiller
File:Le Rêve du bonheur - Constance Mayer-Lamartinière - Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 6586 ; L 3735.jpg|The Dream of Happiness by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
File:Jeanne d'arc prisonnière à Rouen-Pierre Révoil-MBA Lyon 2014.jpeg|Joan of Arc Imprisoned in Rouen by Pierre Révoil
File:Mary Stuart cell.jpg|Mary, Queen of Scots in her Cell by Philippe-Jacques van Bree
File:Louis Léopold Boilly - L'entrée du théâtre.jpg|Entrance to the Ambigu-Comique Theatre by Louis-Léopold Boilly
File:Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Roger Delivering Angelica.jpg|Roger Freeing Angelica by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
File:Attack on a large convoy at Salinas.jpg|Attack on a large convoy at Salinas by Louis-François Lejeune
File:Angoulême at Pauillac.png|The Embarkation of the Duchess of Angoulême at Pauillac by Antoine-Jean Gros
File:Louisantoined'artoisducdangouleme.jpg|Portrait of the Duke of Angoulême by François Kinson
References
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Bibliography
- Boime, Albert. Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815–1848. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
- Miles, Jonathan. Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece. Random House, 2008.
- Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics. Tate, 2003.
- Spitzer, Alan Barrie. The French Generation of 1820. Princeton University Press, 2014.