Salon of 1814

Portrait of Louis XVIII by François Gérard. The artist rushed to complete the painting in time for the Salon

The Salon of 1814 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris from 5 November 1814. It was the first Salon to be held since the defeat of Napoleon and the Bourbon Restoration that brought Louis XVIII to the throne.[1] It featured a mixture of paintings and works of sculpture.

One of the most celebrated artists of the Napoleonic regime Jacques-Louis David had gone into exile and was absent from the Salon. However, Léon Matthieu Cochereau exhibited his Interior of David's Studio.[2] Several of the works had appeared at earlier exhibitions such as Théodore Gericault's The Charging Chasseur which had featured in the Salon of 1812.[3] By contrast Géricault's The Wounded Cuirassier was shown for the first time.[4] Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres wanted his entries "to cause some noise" and demonstrate the supremacy of history painting above all other genres.[5] Anicet Lemonnier enjoyed success with his depiction of eighteenth century Paris In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755.[6] British artist John Crome, who was visiting Paris, exhibited a view of Norwich. This anticipated the breakthrough by British landscape paintings a decade later at the Salon of 1824.[7]

François Gérard, a noted painter of the Napoleonic era, rushed to complete his Portrait of Louis XVIII in time for the exhibition.[8] It was followed by the Salon of 1817 which was more overt in its support of the Bourbon dynasty.

Gallery

Paintings

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  Portrait of Prosper de Barante by Girodet
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  The Charging Chasseur by Théodore Géricault
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  The Wounded Cuirassier by Théodore Géricault
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  In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755 by Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier
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  Vue du parc du Raincy by Pierre-Antoine Marchais
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  Interior of David's Studio by Léon Matthieu Cochereau
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  Virgil Reading his Aeneid to Augustus by Jean-Bruno Gassies
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  Portrait of Napoléon-Joseph de Colbert-Chabanais by Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet
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  Pope Pius VII in the Sistine Chapel by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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  Raphael and La Fornarina by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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  The Death of Malek-Adhel by Césarine Davin-Mirvault
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  Portrait of Joseph Souberbielle by Adèle Romany
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  Portrait of Mme Granier in the role of Colinette by Adèle Romany

Sculptures

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  Suzanne Bathing by Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet
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  Homer by Philippe-Laurent Roland
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  Zephyr Carrying off Psyche by Henri-Joseph Ruxthiel

References

1. Crow p.20
2. Harkett & Hornstein p.203
3. "Officier de chasseurs a cheval de la garde impériale chargeant". pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
4. "Cuirassier blesse quittant le feu". pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
5. Harkett & Hornstein p.144
6. Lilti p.1
7. Nonn & Bann p.51
8. Sérullaz p.102

Bibliography

• Crow, Thomas. Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812–1820. Princeton University Press, 2023.
• Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
• Lilti, Antoine. The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-century Paris. Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics. Tate, 2003.
• Sérullaz, Arlette. French Painting: The Revolutionary Decades, 1760–1830. Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1980.