Salon of 1857

The Congress of Paris by Édouard Dubufe

The Salon of 1857 was an art exhibition held in Paris. Part of the regular tradition of Salons It was held at the Palace of Industry built for the Exposition Universelle in 1855. Organised by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, it opened on 15 June 1857. The Salon reverted to its traditional formal after the Salon of 1855, part of the Exposition Universelle, which had featured a large number of retrospective works from both France and elsewhere.

Amongst paintings on display were The Congress of Paris by Édouard Dubufe depicting the diplomatic gathering of the same name that brought an end to the Crimean War.^[1] Jean-Léon Gérôme enjoyed great public success with The Duel After the Masquerade.^[2] Jules Verne reviewed the Salon in a series of articles.

Gallery

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  The Duel After the Masquerade by Jean-Léon Gérôme
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  Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert by Jean-Léon Gérôme
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  Portrait of Pierre Bosquet by Horace Vernet
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  The Quarry by Gustave Courbet
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  Young Ladies Beside the Seine by Gustave Courbet
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  Le concert champêtre by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
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  The Destruction of Sodom by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
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  The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet
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  The Hay Harvesters of San Germano by Ernest Hébert
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  Portrait of Marie Legentil by Hippolyte Flandrin
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  A Painter by Ernest Meissonier
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  La Confidence by Ernest Meissonier
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  Julius Caesar Arriving at the Rubicon by Gustave Boulanger
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  The Four Henris by Eugène Devéria
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  La Danse by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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  The Kiss of the Muse by Félix Nicolas Frillié
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  Portrait of Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers by Charles-Philippe Larivière
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  The Blessing of the Wheat in Artois by Jules Breton
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  The Renaissance of Arts and Literature by Henri Sieurac
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  Fortune and the Young Child by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
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  The Combat of the Thirty by Octave Penguilly L'Haridon
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  Guard Room Scene by Claude Jacquand
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  Spring by Charles-François Daubigny
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  Memnon and Sesostris by Jean-Léon Gérôme
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  Camels Watering by Jean-Léon Gérôme

See also

• Royal Academy Exhibition of 1857, held at the National Gallery in London

References

1. Romberg p.239-40
2. Allan & Morton p.112

Bibliography

• Allan, Scott & Morton, Mary G. Reconsidering Gérôme. Getty Publications, 2010.
• Hornstein, Katie. Picturing War in France, 1792–1856. Yale University Press, 2018.
• Romberg, Marion. Empresses and Queens in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century. BRILL, 2022.
• Thoma, Julia. The Final Spectacle: Military Painting under the Second Empire, 1855-1867. Walter de Gruyter, 2019.
• Tinterow, Gary. Corot. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.