Salon of 1847

The Salon of 1847 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris between 1 May and 15 August 1847. Organised by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, it took place in the Louvre's Salon Carré and Grande Galerie. One of the exhibited paintings Four O'Clock at the Salon by François-Auguste Biard, specifically displays the Grande Galerie at closing time during the Salon. ^[1] Horace Vernet presented his Louis Philippe and His Sons ,commissioned for the Palace of Versailles.^[2] Thomas Couture enjoyed great success with his history painting The Romans in their Decadence.^[3]

Amongst other works on display were the biblical scene Judith at the Gates of Bethulia by Jules-Claude Ziegler^[4] and The Cock Fight by Jean-Léon Gérôme.^[5] The sculptor Auguste Clésinger displayed the marble Woman Bitten by a Serpent

Stylistically Romanticism remained prominent. The Salon was held towards the end of the July Monarchy before the overthrow of Louis Philippe I in the French Revolution of 1848.