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The Salon of 1761 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. Staged during the reign of Louis XV and at a time when the Seven Years' War against Britain and Prussia was at its height, it reflected the taste of the Ancien régime during the mid-eighteenth century. The biannual Salon was organised by the Académie Royale.
The Exhibition of 1761 was the inaugural art exhibition staged by the Society of Artists of Great Britain (SAGB), a group of painters, architects and sculptors. The exhibition opened on 9 May 1761 and was held at Spring Gardens in Westminster , London.
Greuze likely began working on The Laundress sometime in July 1761, around the same time as L'Accordée de village.In drawing upon Dutch and Flemish cabinet paintings, Greuze may have found inspiration in the style of Rembrandt, and other artists and paintings such as Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin's The Kitchen Maid (1738), Gerrit Dou's Girl Chopping Onions (1646), Gabriël Metsu's The ...
In portraiture Louis-Michel van Loo exhibited a Portrait of Denis Diderot, the influential art critic who wrote extensively about the Salon, as well as another featuring the wife of Joseph Vernet. Alexander Roslin displayed his Portrait of Jean-François Marmontel. The sculptor Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain submitted his Venus at the Bath. [4]
The Salon of 1765 was an art exhibition that took place at the Louvre in Paris. One of the biannual Salon it took place during the reign of Louis XV and was overseen by the Académie Royale which at this time limited submissions to the Salon largely to it own members. As with previous salons, the art critic Denis Diderot was an influential ...
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) January 24 – Johann Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher (died 1847) January 28 – Marguerite Gérard, French painter and etcher (died 1837) March – John Laporte, English landscape painter and etcher (died 1839) April 10 – Jacques-Edme Dumont, French sculptor (died 1844)
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