Salon of 1810
The Salon of 1810 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris, part of the series of Salons held to display paintings, sculptures and engravings. It opened on 5 November 1810 and lasted until April 1811. It was the penultimate Salon to be held during the Napoleonic era and was followed by the Salon of 1812.
It included a number of paintings featuring Napoleon and his military campaigns including The Battle of Austerlitz by François Gérard and The Revolt of Cairo by Girodet. Napoleon himself purchased twenty paintings exhibited at the Salon at a cost of 47,000 francs.[1] Also on display were the Portrait of Chateaubriand by Girodet[2], Portrait of General Colbert-Chabanais by Gérard[3] and the Portrait of Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, the Minister of War, by François-Xavier Fabre.[4] Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet exhibited a plaster sculpture of Suzanne in her Bath which was a popular success and led to Napoleon commissioning a version in marble.[5]
Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon was on display again, having also appeared at the Salon of 1808. Its appearance at the 1810 Salon was captured by Louis-Léopold Boilly in his The Public Viewing David's 'Coronation' at the Louvre.[6]
Gallery
Portrait of Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais by François Gérard
Portrait of Antoine Valedau by Adèle Romany
Place du Châtelet by Étienne Bouhot
Daria by Pauline Auzou
Arrival of Archduchess Marie-Louise in Compiègne by Pauline Auzou
Aurora and Cephalus by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
The Wedding of Jérôme Bonaparte and Catherine of Württemberg by Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Alexander the Great Attacking the Oxydrakai by Nicolas-André Monsiau
Pierre Fourrey Discharged from the Criminal Charge Brought Against Him by Jean Baptiste Vermay
L'Anneau de l'empereur Charles Quint by Pierre Révoil
Malvina. Song of Sorrow on the Loss of Her Dear Oscar (Ossian) by Alexandrine Delaval
Portrait of Jean Lannes by Jean-Charles Nicaise Perrin
Portrait of Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke by François-Xavier Fabre
References
- ^ Gildea p.183
- ^ https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/M0214008494
- ^ https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE008223
- ^ https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/07430003880
- ^ Draper & Scherf p.109
- ^ DeLorme p.11
Bibliography
- DeLorme, Eleanor P. Joséphine and the Arts of the Empire. Getty Publications, 2005.
- Draper, James David & Scherf, Guilhem. Playing with Fire: European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
- Gildea, Robert. Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914. Harvard University Press, 2008.