Salon of 1879

The Salon of 1879 was an art exhibition held at the Palace of Industry in Paris which opened on 12 May 1879. The annual Salon organised by the Académie des Beaux-Arts it took place during the Belle Époque and featured many works of Academic art. It should not be confused with the 4th Impressionist Exhibition held in the city the same year.

In the Conservatory by Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet, himself closely associated with the Impressionist movement, displayed two works at the Salon In the Conservatory and Boating. while Pierre-Auguste Renoir submitted Marguerite Charpentier and Her Children William-Adolphe Bouguereau displayed The Birth of Venus which was then purchased by the state to hang in the Musée du Luxembourg.

In portraiture notable works included Portrait of Carolus-Duran by John Singer Sargent and Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by Jules Bastien-Lepage. Léon Bonnat displayed a picture of the veteran author Victor Hugo. In sculpture Antonin Idrac exhibited Mercury Inventing the Caduceus.

Gallery

• 
  The Birth of Venus by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
• 
  Boating by Édouard Manet
• 
  Une mode nouvelle sous le Directoire by Antony Paul Emile Morlon
• 
  Portrait of Carolus-Duran by John Singer Sargent
• 
  A Capriote by John Singer Sargent
• 
  Portrait of Victor Hugo by Léon Bonnat
• 
  Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by Jules Bastien-Lepage
• 
  Marguerite Charpentier and Her Children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• 
  Diana Surprised by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
• 
  Une loge aux Théâtre Italiens by Eva Gonzalès
• 
  October by Jules Bastien-Lepage
• 
  Scenes from the Inquisition in Spain by Gabriel Ferrier
• 
  The Older Sister, Souvenir of Brittany by François-Alfred Delobbe
• 
  Burnt Village by Albert Edelfelt
• 
  The Defense of Champigny by Édouard Detaille
• 
  Eventide: A Scene in the Westminster Union by Hubert von Herkomer
• 
  Laghouat in the Algerian Sahara by Gustave Achille Guillaumet
• 
  Dante in Verona by Antonio Cotti
• 
  Fatma by Emmanuel de Dieudonné
• 
  Hunters Lying in Wait by Emmanuel Benner
• 
  A Corner of Cernay in January by Léon Germain Pelouse
• 
  Le Prévôt des marchands Etienne Marcel et le dauphin Charles by Lucien-Étienne Mélingue
• 
  The Death of Chramm by Évariste Vital Luminais
• 
  Le serment de Brutus sur le corps de Lucrèce by Léon Olivié
• 
  The Return by Henry Mosler
• 
  La Délivrance des emmurés de Carcassonne by Jean-Paul Laurens
• 
  On the Edge of the Sea by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
• 
  Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou by Henri Lucien Doucet
• 
  Portrait of Johan Svendsen by Hans Heyerdahl
• 
  Portrait of Jeanne Samary by Louise Abbéma
• 
  Portrait of Madame X by Louise Abbéma
• 
  Portrait of Jeanne Samary by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• 
  Mercury Inventing the Caduceus by Antonin Idrac
• 
  Saint Christopher and the Infant Jesus by Jules Coutan
• 
  Centaur and Bacchante by Arthur Le Duc

See also

• Royal Academy Exhibition of 1879, held at Burlington House in London

Bibliography

• Allard, Sébastien, Loyrette, Henri & Des Cars, Laurence. Nineteenth Century French Art: From Romanticism to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Art Nouveau. Rizzoli International Publications, 2007.
• Brauer, Fae. Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
• Harris, Nathaniel & Forsythe, James. The Art of Manet. Gallery Books, 1989.