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1771 art exhibition in Paris
The Salon of 1771 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. Organised by the Académie Royale, it ran from 25 August to 23 September 1771. Taking place during the Ancien régime, it was the biannual edition of the Salon.
In portraiture François-Hubert Drouais exhibited a picture of Louis, Count of Clermont, a distant cousin of Louis XVI, known for his military service during the Seven Years’ War.[1] Guillaume Voiriot depicted the poet Charles-Pierre Colardeau. [2] Philip James de Loutherbourg‘s The Little Milkmaid combined landscape and genre painting. [3]
Jean Siméon Chardin, suffering from failing eyesight, abandoned oil painting and instead exhibited there pastel paintings including a Self-Portrait of himself with glasses. Rosenberg p.324. The sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon displayed a terracotta bust of the art critic Denis Diderot. Diderot was known for his influential reviews of the Salons. Of this work he simply described it as “a good likeness”. [4]
- Poulet, Anne L. Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Rosenberg, Pierre. Chardin. Royal Academy of Arts, 2000.
