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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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
May 9 – Society of Artists of Great Britain's Exhibition of 1761 opens in Spring Gardens, London. Exhibitors include Gainsborough, Hogarth and Nollekens, and Stubbs shows a painting for the first time (A Stallion Called Romulus). [1] Salon of 1761 is held at the Louvre in Paris
He painted several versions of Le Bénédicité, three of which were exhibited at the Salon, in 1740, 1746 and 1761. [2] The original, from 1740, was given as a gift to the King. [3] The painting fell into oblivion ten years after the death of Louis XV, but was rediscovered in 1845. [4]
Louis-Léopold Boilly (French pronunciation: [lwi leɔpɔl(d) bwɑji] ⓘ; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman.A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings documenting French middle-class social life.
Huez exhibited in the Salons of Paris from 1761 to 1773. [2] Huez exhibited four bas-reliefs at the Salon of 1761 representing eight Virtues carrying garlands. Denis Diderot admired them for their antique style and for their character and draperies.