Salon of 1801
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The Salon of 1801 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris held between 18 September and 31 October 1801. It took place during the French Consulate with General Napoleon Bonaparte the dominant force in French society. This was reflected in several of the paintings displayed. Notably Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole by Antoine-Jean Gros depicts a scene from the Italian Campaign.[1] Louis-François Lejeune's The Battle of Marengo depicts a major victory from the same campaign.[2]
Napoleon's wife featured in the Portrait of Josephine Bonaparte by François Gérard.[3] Other paintings on display were the history painting Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière[4] and Portrait of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin by Robert Lefèvre. The sculptor Claude Ramey submitted the marble statuette Sappho.[5]
Stylistically Neoclassicism remained in the ascendency. Jacques-Louis David, one of the leading figures in the French art world, did not exhibit any paintings this year.[6]
Portrait of Josephine Bonaparte by François Gérard
The First Man and the First Woman by Jean-Jacques Le Barbier
Melancholy by Constance Marie Charpentier
Self-Portrait by Henriette Lorimier
Portrait of Antoine-Vincent Arnault by François-André Vincent
Houdon Working on a Bust of Voltaire by Marie-Gabrielle Capet
The Lion of Florence by Nicolas-André Monsiau
Portrait of Madame d'Arjuzon by René Théodore Berthon
A Young Woman Consulting a Globe by Marguerite Gérard
The Sleeping Child in the Care of a Brave Dog by Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet
Combat Between the Bayonnaise and the Ambuscade by Louis-Philippe Crépin
Sappho by Claude Ramey
Oedipus and the Shepherd by Antoine-Denis Chaudet
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