Salon of 1842

The Repatriation of the Remains of Napoleon by Eugène Isabey

The Salon of 1842 was an art exhibition staged at the Louvre in Paris as it was the annual edition of the Salon, the country's premier art exhibition overseen by the Academy of Fine Arts. It took place during the era of the July Monarchy of Louis Philippe I and included submissions from leading painters and sculptors. Amongst the works on display were those which reflected the ongoing influence of Romanticism.

Eugène Isabey's submissions included The Repatriation of the Remains of Napoleon featuring a night time view of the return of the former Emperor Napoleon during Retour des cendres, nearly twenty years after he had died in exile on Saint Helena. He also displayed a landscape, A View of Dieppe. In portraiture the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter displayed a picture of Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, the queen of France. Adrien Dauzats produced The Battle of Almanza for a commission by the king, although it was not added to the Galerie des Batailles at the Palace of Versailles. Théodore Chassériau presented the nude biblical scene The Toilette of Esther. The British painter Thomas Jones Barker exhibited three works including Parisina.

Gallery

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  The Toilette of Esther by Théodore Chassériau
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  View of the City and Port of Dieppe by Eugène Isabey
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  The Capture of Tripoli by Charles-Alexandre Debacq
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  Portrait of Maria Amalia by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
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  Portrait of Adrien-Louis Cochelet by Louis-Jean-Baptiste Bourdon
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  Scheherazade and Shahryar by Marie-Éléonore Godefroid
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  Parisina by Thomas Jones Barker
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  Bathsheba at Her Bath by Joseph Léon Roland de Lestang-Parade
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  Francis I Visiting the Monastery of Brou by Auguste Mathieu
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  The Raising of the Daughter of Jairus by Aimée Brune-Pagès
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  The Defence of Mazagran by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux
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  Adam and Eve Chased out of Paradise by Jean-Achille Benouville
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  The Confession by Marie Amelie Cogniet
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  Ondine donne à son mari le baiser qui doit le faire mourir by Irma Martin
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  Portrait of Elena Vigano by Marie-Eleonore Godefroid
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  The children of Pierre-Jean David d'Angers by Marie-Eleonore Godefroid
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  Louise Colet and Henriette by Adèle Grasset
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  Portrait of Alexis Soyer by Emma Soyer
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  Mariuccia by Henri Lehmann

See also

• Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842, held at the National Gallery in London

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