Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists

Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists
Artist	François Joseph Heim
Year	1827
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	1.73 cm × 2.56 cm (0.68 in × 1.01 in)
Location	Louvre, Paris

Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists (French: Charles X distribuant des récompenses aux artistes exposants du salon de 1824 au Louvre, le 15 Janvier 1825) is an 1827 painting by the French artist François Joseph Heim.[1] [2] It depicts the French monarch Charles X awarding legion of honours to artists who exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1824 at a ceremony held on 15 January 1825. The King who had succeeded his brother Louis XVIII in 1824 is shown in the uniform of the National Guard.[3] It features portraits of many of the leading artists of the era. The royal official Ambroise-Polycarpe de La Rochefoucauld and the director of the Louvre Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin are shown close to the king.[4] Heim became a celebrated depicter of scenes of the Bourbon Restoration. It is now in the collection of the Louvre and is displayed in the Salon Carré.[5]

See also

• Portrait of Charles X, 1825 work by Thomas Lawrence

References

1. Bouillo p.128
2. Moon & Taws p.170
3. De Saint-Amand p.249
4. Mansell p.94
5. "Charles X distribuant des récompenses aux artistes exposants du salon de 1824 au Louvre, le 15 Janvier 1825". 1827.

Bibliography

• Bouillo, Eva. Le Salon de 1827: classique ou romantique?. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009.
• De Saint-Amand, Imbert . The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X. C. Scribner's Sons, 1892.
• Mansel, Philip. Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II. Yale University Press, 2005.
• Moon, Iris & Taws, Richard. Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2021.