Paris Salon

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The Paris Salon was the official, highly influential art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 19th-century Paris, serving as the central venue for artists to gain recognition and shape artistic taste in France and beyond.

Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Salon de Paris 4
Paris Salon series 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf art exhibition
cultural institution
causeOfDecline emergence of Impressionism and other avant-garde movements
rise of independent exhibitions
country France
criterion academic standards of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
declinePeriod late 19th century
field architecture
drawing
fine arts
painting
printmaking
sculpture
frequency annual
biennial
hasRole arbiter of artistic taste in France
central venue for artists to gain recognition in France
instrument of state cultural policy
official exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
inception 1667
influenced European academic art
Academic art
surface form: French academic art

art criticism in France
public taste in art in 19th-century France
language French
location Paris
notableArtistExhibited Eugène Delacroix
Gustave Courbet
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Léon Gérôme
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Édouard Manet
notableEvent Salon of 1863
Salon of 1865
Salon of 1874
opposedBy avant-garde artists of the late 19th century
organizer French Académie des Beaux-Arts
surface form: Académie des Beaux-Arts
peakInfluence mid-19th century
predecessor Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture exhibitions
relatedEvent Salon of 1863
surface form: Salon des Refusés

Salon d'Automne
surface form: Salon d’Automne

Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts Salon
selectionProcess jury system
submission-based
significantPeriod 18th century
19th century
early 20th century
venue Grand Palais, Paris
surface form: Grand Palais

Louvre Museum
surface form: Louvre

Palais des Industries diverses
surface form: Palais de l’Industrie

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Academic art centralInstitution Paris Salon
Barbizon school exhibitedAt Paris Salon
Carolus-Duran exhibitedAt Paris Salon
Eugène Boudin exhibitedAt Paris Salon
Gustave Courbet exhibitedAt Paris Salon
Jean-Baptiste Greuze exhibitedAt Paris Salon
John Singer Sargent exhibitedAt Paris Salon
Madame X exhibitedAt Paris Salon
The Stone Breakers exhibitedAt Paris Salon
Berthe Morisot firstExhibitedAt Paris Salon
this entity surface form: Salon de Paris
this entity surface form: Salon de Paris
this entity surface form: Salon de Paris
Paris Salon of 1884 partOf Paris Salon
Salon of 1787 partOf Paris Salon
this entity surface form: Paris Salon series
this entity surface form: Salon de Paris