The Salon of 1841 was an

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staged at the

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. Held during the

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it was the annual edition of the

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, the country's premier art exhibition. Overseen by the

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, it featured entries from a variety of fields including

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and

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. It was preceded by the Salon of 1840 and followed by the Salon of 1842.

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French people, French Romanticism, Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: ...

, one of the leading romantic painters submitted three works: the historical ''

Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople The ''Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople'' (''Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople'') or ''The Crusaders Entering Constantinople'' is a large painting by the French painter Eugène Delacroix. It was commissioned by Louis-Philippe in 1838, ...

'', '' The Shipwreck of Don Juan'' based on a poem of

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...

and an Orientalist

genre painting Genre painting (or petit genre) is the painting of genre art, which depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity ca ...

''Jewish Wedding in Morocco''.

Théodore Chassériau Théodore Chassériau (; ; September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a Dominican-born French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to A ...

presented ''Andromeda Chained to the Rock'' while François-Auguste Biard entered ''Magdalena Bay''. The German

portraitist A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better re ...

Franz Xaver Winterhalter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithography, lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashio ...

displayed a painting of the

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, the daughter-in-law of

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Théodore Rousseau Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau (; 15 April 181222 December 1867) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. Life Youth He was born in Paris, France in a bourgeois family. At first he received a basic level of training, but soon displa ...

, a landscape painter of the Barbizon school, submitted ''The Avenue of Chestnut Trees''.Ives & Barker p.142

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File:Eugène Delacroix - Jewish Wedding in Morocco - WGA6201.jpg, ''Jewish Wedding in Morocco'' by

File:Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix 012.jpg, ''

'' by

File:1840 Chasseriau Theodore - Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids.jpg, ''Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids'' by

File:Sophie Rude - La duchesse de Bourgogne arrêtée aux portes de Bruges - 1841.jpg, ''La Duchesse de Bourgogne arrêtée aux portes de Bruges'' by Sophie Frémiet File:Magdalena Bay.jpg, ''Magdalena Bay'' by François-Auguste Biard File:François-Auguste Biard - La Chasse des morses par des grœnlandais au mer polaire.jpg, ''Greenlanders Hunting Walruses in the Arctic Sea'' by François-Auguste Biard File:François-Auguste Biard - Le Duc d'Orléans descendant le grand rapide de l'Eijanpaikka.jpg, ''The Duke of Orleans Riding Down the Great Rapid of Eijanpaikka'' by François-Auguste Biard File:Latil Naufragés musée des Augustins.jpg, ''Episode de l'histoire des naufrages'' by François Vincent Latil File:Meeting Between Cambyses II and Psammetichus III.jpg, ''Cambyses and Psammetichus'' by Jean-Adrien Guignet File:Bataille-de-Mons-en-Pévèle.jpg, ''Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle'' by

Charles-Philippe Larivière Charles-Philippe Larivière (28 September 1798 in Paris – 29 February 1876 in Paris) was a French academic art, academic painter and lithographer. Biography A talented student of Paulin Guérin, Girodet-Trioson and Antoine-Jean Gros, he wa ...

File:Corot - Démocrite et les Abdéritains ; paysage, 1841.jpg, ''Democritus and the Abderitans'' by

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French Landscape art, landscape and Portraitist, portrait painter as well as a printmaking, printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in ...

File:Portrait of Dominique Lacordaire.jpg, ''Portrait of Dominique Lacordaire'' by

File:Ernest Sebastien de Barante.jpg, ''Portrait of Ernest Brugière de Barante'' by

Joseph-Désiré Court Joseph-Désiré Court (14 September 1797, Rouen – 23 January 1865, Paris) was a French painter of historical subjects and portraits. Life and work He was a descendant of the portrait painter Hyacinthe Rigaud and displayed an early interest in a ...

File:Victoire, duchess de NemoursFXD.jpg, ''Portrait of the Duchess of Nemours'' by

References

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.

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