Salon of 1841
1841 art exhibition in Paris
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The Salon of 1841 was an art exhibition staged at the Louvre in Paris. Held during the July Monarchy it was the annual edition of the Salon, the country's premier art exhibition. Overseen by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, it featured entries from a variety of fields including painting, sculpture and architecture. It was preceded by the Salon of 1840 and followed by the Salon of 1842.
Eugène Delacroix, one of the leading romantic painters submitted three works: the historical Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople, The Shipwreck of Don Juan based on a poem of Lord Byron and an Orientalist genre painting Jewish Wedding in Morocco.[1] Théodore Chassériau presented Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids[2] while François-Auguste Biard entered Magdalena Bay.[3] The German portraitist Franz Xaver Winterhalter displayed a painting of the Duchess of Nemours, the daughter-in-law of Louis Philippe I.
Théodore Rousseau, a landscape painter of the Barbizon school, submitted The Avenue of Chestnut Trees.[4]
Gallery
La Duchesse de Bourgogne arrêtée aux portes de Bruges by Sophie Frémiet
Magdalena Bay by François-Auguste Biard
Greenlanders Hunting Walruses in the Arctic Sea by François-Auguste Biard
The Duke of Orleans Riding Down the Great Rapid of Eijanpaikka by François-Auguste Biard
The Duke of Orleans in a Lap Encampment by François-Auguste Biard
Episode de l'histoire des naufrages by François Vincent Latil
Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert by Marie-Ernestine Serret
Cambyses and Psammetichus by Jean-Adrien Guignet
Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle by Charles-Philippe Larivière
A Storm at Sea by Adrien Lainé
Homer by Auguste Leloir
The Bride of Death by Thomas Jones Barker
L'enfance de Giotto by Pierre Révoil
Democritus and the Abderitans by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Portrait of Ernest Brugière de Barante by Joseph-Désiré Court
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