Salon of 1841

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.

The Shipwreck of Don Juan by Eugène Delacroix

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^[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

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  Jewish Wedding in Morocco by Eugène Delacroix
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  Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople by Eugène Delacroix
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  Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids by Théodore Chassériau
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  La Duchesse de Bourgogne arrêtée aux portes de Bruges by Sophie Frémiet
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  Magdalena Bay by François-Auguste Biard
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  Greenlanders Hunting Walruses in the Arctic Sea by François-Auguste Biard
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  The Duke of Orleans Riding Down the Great Rapid of Eijanpaikka by François-Auguste Biard
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  Episode de l'histoire des naufrages by François Vincent Latil
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  Cambyses and Psammetichus by Jean-Adrien Guignet
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  Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle by Charles-Philippe Larivière
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  Democritus and the Abderitans by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
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  Portrait of Dominique Lacordaire by Théodore Chassériau
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  Portrait of Ernest Brugière de Barante by Joseph-Désiré Court
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  Portrait of the Duchess of Nemours by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

References

1. Allard & Fabre p.100
2. Pomerède & Trébosc p.230
3. Thuillier p.477
4. Ives & Barker p.142

Bibliography

• Allard, Sébastien & Fabre, Côme. Delacroix. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.
• Norman, Geraldine. Nineteenth-century Painters and Painting: A Dictionary. University of California Press, 1977.
• Ives, Colta Feller & Barker, Elizabeth E. ''Romanticism & the School of Nature: Nineteenth-century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
• Pomerède, Vincent & Trébosc, Delphine. 1001 Paintings at the Louvre: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. Musée du Louvre Editions, 2005.
• Thuillier, Jacques. History of Art. Flammarion, 2003.