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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 critic Denis Diderot considered the artist's work to represent "beautiful nature". [1] Hubert Robert, a painter of landscapes and capriccios, made his Salon debut in 1767. [2] He exhibited A View of Ripetta, a veduta of Rome. [3] Jean Siméon Chardin submitted a lair of still life paintings The Attributes of Civilian and Military Music.
The Village Bride (French: L'Accordée de Village) is a painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, created in 1761. It is now in the Louvre, in Paris. The work was first exhibited at the Salon of 1761, where it was unanimously praised by the critics, notably by Diderot. It was the first example of the 'moral painting' genre, to which ...
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 ...
It depicts the salon of Marie Thérèse Geoffrin in Paris at the middle of the eighteenth century. A conversation piece it depicts many figures from the Age of Enlightenment . [ 2 ] Produced during the Napoleonic era , it represents a nostalgic view of the intellectual elite of the Ancien Régime . [ 3 ]
December 1 – Marie Tussaud, French-born wax modeller of the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (died 1850) date unknown. Jan Frans Eliaerts, Flemish painter of animals, flowers and fruit (died 1848) William Fowler, English artist (died 1832) Charles Hayter, English painter (died 1835) Sakai HÅitsu, Japanese painter of the Rinpa school (died 1828)
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