Salon of 1842

The Salon of 1842 was an art exhibition staged at the Louvre in Paris as it was the annual edition of the Salon, the country's premier art exhibition overseen by the Academy of Fine Arts. It took place during the era of the July Monarchy of Louis Philippe I and included submissions from leading painters and sculptors. Amongst the works on display were those which reflected the ongoing influence of Romanticism.

Eugène Isabey's submissions included The Return of Napoleon featuring a night time view of the return of the former Emperor Napoleon during Retour des cendres, nearly twenty years after he had died in exile on Saint Helena. He also displayed a landscape, The Town and Port of Dieppe.^[1] In portraiture the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter displayed a picture of Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, the queen of France.^[2] Adrien Dauzats produced The Battle of Almanza for a commission by the king, although it was not added to the Galerie des Batailles at the Palace of Versailles.^[3][4] Théodore Chassériau presented the nude biblical scene The Toilette of Esther.^[5] The British painter Thomas Jones Barker exhibited three works including Parisina.