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The Salon's original focus was the display of the work of recent graduates of the École des Beaux-Arts, which was created by Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, in 1648. Exhibition at the Salon de Paris was essential for any artist to achieve success in France for at least the next 200 years.
Salons were started under Louis XIV and continued from 1667 to 1704. After a hiatus, the salons started up again in 1725. Under Louis XV, the most prestigious Salon took place in Paris (the Salon de Paris) in the Salon Carré of the Louvre, but there were also salons in the cities of Bordeaux, Lille and Toulouse.
The Village Bride by Jean-Baptiste Greuze.. 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.
He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as the first chief of police of Paris. 24 May – The War of Devolution begins: France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté; on 10 August the siege of Lille, the war's only main engagement, begins, ending in a French victory. 26 June – Louis XIV conquers Tournai.
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May 2 - Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German painter and engraver who invented the system of three- and four-colour printing (died 1741) July 21 - Cristoforo Munari, Italian painter of the late-Baroque specializing in still life paintings (died 1720) September 9 - Felice Torelli, Italian painter of altarpieces (died 1748)
The Salon Carré in 2018. The Salon Carré is an iconic room of the Louvre Palace, created in its current dimensions during a reconstruction of that part of the palace following a fire in February 1661. It gave its name to the longstanding tradition of Salon exhibitions of contemporary art in Paris which had its heyday there between 1725 and 1848.
Ernest Meissonier, Puvis de Chavannes, Auguste Rodin and others rejected this proposal and left the organization. They quickly created their own exhibition ( Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1899) that was also named the Salon , officially Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux–Arts , in short Salon du Champs de Mars .