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Style galleriesParis Salon painting

Paris Salon painting

A work made of oil on canvas.
A work made of oil on paper, mounted on canvas.
Woman Meditating, by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, after 1868
Berthe Morisot with a Muff, by Édouard Manet, c. 1871–72
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet, 1866
A work made of oil on canvas.

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

Painting made for the great annual exhibition in Paris, and the realists who argued with it.

First room, north wall

  1. A work made of oil on canvas.
    A Woman at the Élysée Montmartre (Femme à l’Élysée Montmartre)Louis Anquetin, 1888Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. A work made of oil on paper, mounted on canvas.
    Venice Seen from the Public GardenJean Jules Antoine Lecomte du Noüy, 1873Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Woman Meditating, by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, after 1868
    Woman MeditatingJean Baptiste Camille Corot, after 1868Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  4. Berthe Morisot with a Muff, by Édouard Manet, c. 1871–72
    Berthe Morisot with a MuffÉdouard Manet, c. 1871–72Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art

First room, south wall

  1. Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet, 1866
    Woman with a ParrotGustave Courbet, 1866Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. A work made of oil on canvas.
    Sur la route de NicePaul Huet, c. 1844Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Second room, south wall

  1. Boats at Berck-sur-Mer, by Édouard Manet, 1873
    Boats at Berck-sur-MerÉdouard Manet, 1873Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. Hagar in the Wilderness, by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, 1835
    Hagar in the WildernessJean Baptiste Camille Corot, 1835Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Second room, north wall

  1. A person at the center of this loosely painted horizontal landscape rides a dark horse across a field as a man to the left works the field behind a horse-drawn plow. The field is carpeted with muted and gold-shaded green, and a grove of trees in the right third of the composition are painted in fern, olive, and dark green. A patch of darker green near us and to left of center is dotted with red and yellow to suggest flowers. The men and horses are small in relation to the composition. The people have brown skin and are painted with a few strokes in dark gray and muted green for the man behind the plow to the left and pale yellow and white and a red cap for the person on horseback. A band of houses with tan or light yellow walls and gray or terracotta red roofs line the far side of the field to the left, and an arched bridge crosses what appears to be a shallow, grassy ravine near the center. The horizon comes about a third of the way up this composition and a few smoke-gray clouds line the upper edge of the otherwise milk-white sky. The artist signed the lower left corner, “COROT.”
    View near EpernonJean Baptiste Camille Corot, 1850/1860Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
  2. A work made of oil on canvas.
    Dante's BarkAfter Eugène Delacroix, c. 1840–60Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. A work made of oil on canvas.
    Sawmill, Outskirts of ParisHenri Rousseau, c. 1893/95Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  4. The painting shows an elevated perspective overlooking a landscape with green hills and leafy trees. Closest to us, there are cream-colored buildings among dense foliage. These buildings have roofs in shades of pale blue-gray and reddish-brown, and the one in the center has wispy white smoke coming out of a chimney. In the distance on the left, a large, low structure sits atop a hill, with faint paths winding towards it through the green landscape. Beyond the trees, the distant landscape on the right is painted in shades of pale blue and green. The sky above is filled with puffy clouds in shades of gray.
    View on the Outskirts of CaenStanislas Lépine, 1872/1875Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Third room, north wall

  1. The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur, 1852–55
    The Horse FairRosa Bonheur, 1852–55Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879
    Joan of ArcJules Bastien-Lepage, 1879Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Third room, south wall

  1. A work made of oil on canvas.
    Landscape near Chiusi, TuscanyAlexandre Desgoffe, 1841Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Young Lady in 1866, by Édouard Manet, 1866
    Young Lady in 1866Édouard Manet, 1866Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art