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TitleView of the Salon of 1785

Creator nameMartini, Pietro Antonio

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1785

Object typePrint

MaterialsEtching

Dimensions10 7/8 × 19 1/8 in. (27.6 × 48.6 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/390722

Accession number2009.472

SubjectsEtching, ItalianSalons--France--History--18th centuryPrints--18th century

StatusJacques-Louis David's "The Oath of the Horatii" is shown at the center of the back wall; Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's 'Self-Portrait with Two Pupils" is shown on one of right-hand walls.

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3. The Wounded Warrior

Thomas E. Crow

Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France

~~Drouais was marked as an exception, by himself and by his admirers, in a state system that placed a premium on discipline and conformity. Being distant from Paris did not for Drouais lessen the reach of administrative control from Paris; rather, it intensified and concentrated the application of...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.47-81

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00330.4

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Chapter subject tags:Drouais, Jean-Germain, 1763-1788David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Accademia di Francia (Rome, Italy)Neoclassicism (Art)--FrancePainting, French--18th century

Chapter VII: David and the Salon

Thomas E. Crow

Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris

To judge from David’s planning for the Salon of 1783, the “modesty” discerned by the author of Mémoires secrets seems closer to the mark than does any desire to reach over the heads of his superiors to some radicalized public...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.211-254

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00329.8

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Chapter subject tags:David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Art criticism--France--History--18th centuryFrance--History--Revolution, 1789-1799Neoclassicism (Art)--FranceArt, French--18th century--ExhibitionsHistory painting, French--18th century

"The most splendid . . . collection of works of art in the world": Morse and the Louvre

Andrew McClellan

Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention

~AS MORSE SAILED HOME from France in 1832, his large painting of the Louvre rolled up in storage belowdecks, he alternated between confidence and despair about the prospects of the fine arts in America. Despite a career marked to that point mostly by professional frustration and meager patronage, he hoped his arresting image of the Louvre would break through...

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Andrew McClellan

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.35-44

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00223.002

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Chapter subject tags:Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872Louvre (Paris, France)Pictures--CopyingMuseums in artArt--Study and teaching

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