Salon of 1838

Van Dyck in London by Camille Roqueplan

The Salon of 1838 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris from 1 March 1838.[1] It took place around midway through the July Monarchy era.

The previous year the Museum of French History had been opened at the Palace of Versailles and works commissioned for it by the state continued to exhibited. These included large-scale paintings to hang in the Galerie des Batailles such as The Storming of Valenciennes by Jean Alaux and The Capitulation of Antwerp by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux.

Romantic art continued to feature heavily, led by key figures like Eugène Delacroix who displayed by Medea and The Kaïd, A Moroccan Chief. Camille Roqueplan's Van Dyck in London depicted a scene from the life of the Old Master. [2]

After his disappointing reception at the Salon of 1837, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot displayed three works: the landscapes Volterra, the Municipality, Toscane and Silenus, the latter of which drew on Greek mythology. [3]

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Bibliography

  • Allard, Sébastien & Fabre, Côme. Delacroix. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.
  • Boime, Albert. Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815-1848. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
  • Hornstein, Katie. Picturing War in France, 1792–1856. Yale University Press, 2018.
  • Tinterow, Gary, Pantazzi, Michael & Pomarède, Vincent. Corot. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996
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