Salon of 1755

Interior of the Port of Marseille by Claude-Joseph Vernet

The Salon of 1755 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. Open between 25 August and 25 September 1755, it was organised by the Académie Royale as the latest edition of the biannual Salon.[1] It featured submissions from many of the leading artists and architects of the mid-eighteenth century Ancien régime period. It was held the year before the formal outbreak of the Seven Years' War, although fighting had already begun in North America. Madame de Pompadour was then at the height of her influence, and her brother the Marquis de Marigny was head of the Bâtiments du Roi and influential in the artworld.[2]

Maurice Quentin de La Tour displayed a pastel portrait of Madame de Pompadour.[3] Claude-Joseph Vernet exhibited several of his well-known seascapes including Interior of the Port of Marseille from his Views of the Ports of France series of paintings, commissioned by Louis XV.[4] Vernet's A Storm with a Shipwreck, commissioned by Pompadour's brother Marquis de Marigny is now in the Wallace Collection.[5]

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Bibliography

  • Baetjer, Katharine. French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Hooper-Hamersley, Rosamond . The Hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour: Patronage, Politics, Art, and the French Enlightenment. Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
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