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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.
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 ...
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 (French: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris [salɔ̃ də paʁi]), beginning in 1667 [1] was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art event in the Western world.
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)
Antonio Maria Lugo (1778–1860) was born at Mission San Antonio de Padua in present-day Jolon, California, the seventh son of Francisco Salvador Lugo.After 17 years of service at the Presidio of Santa Barbara, in 1810 Corporal Lugo received his discharge and settled with his family in the Pueblo de Los Angeles.
The Buckeyes came into Los Angeles with one loss. They played their game against both teams, forcing 23 turnovers in each contest. They lost both games by double-digits and left California winless.
In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755 is an 1812 oil painting by the French artist Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier. [1] 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]