Salon of 1850

The Salon of 1850 was an art exhibition held at the Palais-Royal in Paris between 30 December 1850 and 6 March 1851. Part of the tradition of annual Salons organised by the Academy of Fine Arts, it took place during the French Second Republic. It is also sometimes referred to as the Salon of 1851.

The Dance of the Nymphs by Camille Corot

The Palais-Royal had previously been the residence of the Louis Philippe I before his overthrow in the French Revolution of 1848. The Romantic painter Théodore Chassériau displayed the Orientalist Arab Horsemen Carrying Away Their Dead. He also displayed a painting of Desdemona from William Shakespeare's Othello. Camille Corot submitted The Dance of the Nymphs while the Realist Gustave Courbet exhibited The Stone Breakers, later destroyed in the Bombing of Dresden in 1945. He also displayed his well-known work A Burial at Ornans.

In sculpture Antoine-Louis Barye exhibited the bronze statues Lapith Combating a Centaur and Theseus and the Minotaur which he had completed several years earlier. Jean-François Soitoux displayed a statue representing a female personification of the new French republic.

Gallery

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  The Last Banquet of the Girondins by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux
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  Arab Horsemen Carrying Away Their Dead by Théodore Chassériau
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  Desdemona Retiring to her Bed by Théodore Chassériau
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  Bather Sleeping Near a Spring by Théodore Chassériau
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  Sapho by Théodore Chassériau
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  An Artist Showing his Work by Ernest Meissonier
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  Trussing Hay by Jean-François Millet
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  Dante and Virgil by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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  Self-Portrait with Pipe by Gustave Courbet
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  The Stone Breakers by Gustave Courbet
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  Les Paysans de Flagey revenant de la foire by Gustave Courbet
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  A Burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet
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  The Exiles of Tiberius by Félix-Joseph Barrias
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  The Death of a Sister of Charity by Isidore Pils
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  The Studio of the Engraver by Jean-Baptiste Antoine Emile Béranger
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  The Abdication of Doge Foscari by Louis Duveau
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  Rebecca at the Well by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
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  The Mal'aria by Ernest Hébert
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  Sleeping Nymph by Armand Cambon
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  Le génie éteint par la volupté by Hippolyte Lazerges
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  L'Incendie by Alexandre Antigna
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  An Unhappy Family by Octave Tassaert
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  Desolation of the Oceanids by Henri Lehmann
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  La mort de Coronis by Charles Nègre
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  Leda and the Swan by Charles Nègre
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  The Lake at Neufchâtel by Isidore Dagnan
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  Emigration for Cholera in Marseille by Émile Loubon
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  Enrôlement des Volontaires, 1792 by Auguste Vinchon
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  John the Baptist by Alexandre Cabanel
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  Portrait of Mayer-Goudchaux Worms by Henri Lehmann
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  Portrait of Hector Berlioz by Gustave Courbet
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  Bust of Jean-François Champollion by Émile Thomas
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  Saïd Abdullah of the Mayac by Charles Cordier
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  Lapith Combating a Centaur by Antoine-Louis Barye
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  Theseus and the Minotaur by Antoine-Louis Barye
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  Jaguar Devouring a Hare by Antoine-Louis Barye
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  La Toilette d'Atalante by James Pradier
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  The Republic by Jean-François Soitoux

See also

• Royal Academy Exhibition of 1850, which took place at the National Gallery in London

Bibliography

• Allard, Sébastien & Fabre, Côme. Delacroix. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.
• De Kay, Charles. Barye; Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, Sculptor. Barye Monument Association at New York, 1889.
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• Lemoine, Bertrand. La Statue de la liberté. Mardaga, 1986.
• Murray, Christopher John. Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850, Volume 2. Taylor & Francis, 2004.
• Wrightsman, Jayne. The Wrightsman Pictures. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.