The Salon, or Paris Salon, beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the Western world. From 1881 onward, it has been organized by the Société des Artistes Français.

Jacques-Louis David. The Tennis Court Oath, 1791, pen washed with bistre with highlights of

white

Jacques-Louis David. The Sabine Women, 1796-99, oil on canvas

Jacques-Louis David. Napoleon at Saint Bernard Pass, 1800, oil on

canvas

Jacques-Louis David. Madame Recamier, 1800, oil on canvas

Left: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Self-

Portrait, 1804, oil on canvas

Below: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Self-Portrait, 1858, oil on

canvas

Jacques-Louis David. The Coronation of Napoleon, 1805-8, oil on canvas

Jacques-Louis David. Napoleon in his Study,

1812, oil on canvas

Napoleon Bonaparte/ tirelessly at work/

elaborate furniture in the Empire Style/ tucked away

hand/ Plutarch’s Lives/ Napoleonic Code/

expression of republican virtue

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Grande Odalisque, 1814, oil on canvas

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres/ odalisque/ emphasis on linear forms without visible

brushstrokes/ elongated vertebrae/ debt to Mannerism and to a new Romantic movement/ love

of sensuous textures

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Odalisque with a Slave, 1839-40, oil on canvas

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

Bather of Valpincon, 1808, oil on canvas

image of deceptive simplicity/ subtle

distortions with erotic allusions/ flawless

surface

Left: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Louis Bertin, 1832,

oil on canvasRight: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Louis Bertin, 1832,

pencil drawing (detail)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The

Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, oil

on canvas

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Napoleon

Enthroned, 1806, oil on canvas

Oedipus and the Sphinx,

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,

1808

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Jupiter and Thetis,

1811, oil on canvas

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The Apotheosis of Homer, 1827, oil on canvas

a doctrine of ideal form/ “sovereign geniuses”

Antonio Canova. Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1808, marble

Antonio Canova/ Neoclassical taste in sculpture

Pierre Vignon. La Madeleine (Paris, France), 1807-1842

Pierre Vignon/ a classical shell on a high podium/ a link between the Napoleonic and Roman empires

Jacques-Germain Soufflot. The Pantheon, or

Sainte-Genevieve (Paris), 1755-92