Salon of 1850

The Dance of the Nymphs by Camille Corot

The Salon of 1850 was an art exhibition held at the Palais-Royal in Paris between 30 December 1850 and 6 March 1851.[1] Part of the tradition of annual Salons organised by the Academy of Fine Arts, it took place during the French Second Republic. It is also sometimes referred to as the Salon of 1851.

The Palais-Royal had previously been the residence of the Louis Philippe I before his overthrow in the French Revolution of 1848. The Romantic painter Théodore Chassériau displayed the Orientalist Arab Horsemen Carrying Away Their Dead. He also displayed a painting of Desdemona from William Shakespeare's Othello.[2] Camille Corot submitted The Dance of the Nymphs[3] while the Realist Gustave Courbet exhibited The Stone Breakers, later destroyed in the Bombing of Dresden in 1945.[4] He also displayed his well-known work A Burial at Ornans.

In sculpture Antoine-Louis Barye exhibited the bronze statues Lapith Combating a Centaur and Theseus and the Minotaur which he had completed several years earlier.[5] Jean-François Soitoux displayed a statue representing a female personification of the new French republic.[6]

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  • De Kay, Charles. Barye; Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, Sculptor. Barye Monument Association at New York, 1889.
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