Salon of 1763

View of the Port of La Rochelle by Joseph Vernet

The Salon of 1763 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. It was held during the Ancien Régime era and was overseen by the Académie Royale. Staged during the reign of Louis XV it took place the same years as the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War. Many of the works featured were Rococo in style. Nonetheless The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie Vien was an early example of the Neoclassicism that would displace rococo to become the dominant style of the later nineteenth century.

Philip James de Loutherbourg, a young painter from Alsace, made his Salon debut with Landscape with Figures and Animals. The praise it received from the critic Denis Diderot boosted his career. The marine painter Joseph Vernet displayed several view of La Rochelle as part of his Views of the Ports of France series. As he did in other Salons, Diderot strongly praised Vernet's works for their faithful attention to real life. Jean-Baptiste Greuze displayed genre paintings such as Filial Piety, The Broken Mirror and Tender Memory.

In sculpture Étienne Maurice Falconet submitted Pygmalion and Galatea and Douce Mélancolie. Henri-Horace Roland Delaporte exhibited several still lifes. In portraiture François-Hubert Drouais displayed a double picture of the future Charles X and his sister Clotilde as children. It was followed by the Salon of 1765.

Gallery

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  Self-Portrait by Louis-Michel van Loo
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  The Count of Artois and his sister Clotilde by François-Hubert Drouais
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  Landscape with Figures and Animals by Philip James de Loutherbourg
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  The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie Vien
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  Two Women Bathing by Joseph-Marie Vien
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  The Virtuous Athenian Woman by Joseph-Marie Vien
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  Filial Piety by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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  The Broken Mirror by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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  Tender Memory by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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  Pygmalion and Galatea by Étienne Maurice Falconet

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