Paris Fine Art Salon/Le Salon, 1791–1881

James Kearns is Emeritus Professor of French Nineteenth-Century Studies in the University of Exeter. He has written extensively on French art criticism, with particular reference to the Paris Fine Art Salon and the art journalism of Theophile Gautier. He is currently one of the team of researchers producing the first critical edition of Gautier’s reviews of the Salon between 1833 and 1872.Alister Mill completed his doctoral thesis on the Third-Republic Salon painter Alfred Philippe Roll at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he subsequently spent four years as Visiting Lecturer. As Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter he co-produced with Dr Harriet Griffiths and in association with the Louvre’s Archives des Musées Nationaux the online Database of Salon Artists (salonartists.org), and curated the exhibition The Paris Fine Art Salon, 1791–1881.

«Colloquium proceedings sometimes do not amount to much. This particular collective volume, however, represents a major contribution to scholarship.»(Robert Lethbridge, Journal of European Studies 45(4) 2015)

• Contents: Richard Wrigley: Au seuil du Salon – Sarah Bakkali: Le Salon et le marché de l’art moderne à Paris (1791–1799) – Susan L. Siegfried: Salon and Early Republican Experiments in State Patronage – Daniel Harkett: Delphine Gay and the Paris Salon – Eva Bouillo: Le Salon des Refusés ne date pas de 1863! Les enjeux d’un face à face entre le Salon de l’opposition et le Salon officiel en 1827 – James Kearns: Legislating for the Salon, 1830–1833 – Alister Mill: Artists at the Salon during the July Monarchy – Harriet Griffiths: The Academy and the Salon Jury, 1831–1848 – Aurélie Gavoille: Étienne-Jean Delécluze (1781–1863), un observateur privilégié du Salon au XIXe siècle – Christophe Longbois-Canil: Les Salons de 1843 et de 1844, miroirs d’une époque – Vera Klewitz: Between Capitals and Provinces: The French Painter Sophie Rude (1797–1867) – Arnaud Bertinet: La question du Salon au Louvre 1850–1853 – Laurent Cazes: Usages et enjeux de l’exposition au Salon pour les peintres étrangers, 1852–1881 – Elena Granuzzo: The Paris Salons 1791–1881: Controversies and Debates in the North of Italy in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries – Jana Wijnsouw: Sculpting a National Career Abroad: Belgian Sculptors at the Paris Salon – Isabel Valverde: L’influence des Salons au-delà des frontières nationales : le cas des Exposiciones Nacionales de Bellas Artes – Jon Whiteley: Literature and Painting at the Paris Salon, 1699–1881 – Diana Seave Greenwald: The Demand for Peasants: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery at the Paris Salon – Alison Mcqueen: Shifting Institutional Practices during the Second Empire: The Salon Lottery of 1859 – Debra J. Dewitte: The Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours in the French Salon: 1863–1881 – Alain Bonnet: Le Prix du Salon – Fae Brauer: «Turquet’s Turkey»: Ending the Salon – Pierre Vaisse: Exposer hors du Salon.