- Regardez donc un peu oû ils ont niché mon cadre!.......... - Comment, mon cher....., vous n'êtes pas content....... mais vous devriez être enchanté, puisque vous voyez qu'on place vos petits tableaux bien au dessus de ceux de Meissonnier!......
- Regardez donc un peu oû ils ont niché mon cadre!.......... - Comment, mon cher....., vous n'êtes pas content....... mais vous devriez être enchanté, puisque vous voyez qu'on place vos petits tableaux bien au dessus de ceux de Meissonnier!......
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- Just look at where they have squeezed in my painting!.......... - I say, my friend....., you are not happy....... but you should be overjoyed, since you can see your little one is well above those by Meissonnier!......
Description:
A man angrily exclaims to his friend that the exposition has put his painting in a small space on the wall. His friend says that he should be honored that his paintings are hanging higher than those of Meissonnier. MAISSONNIER, Jean Louis Ernest (1815-1891) was a painter famous for his detailed drawings. He exhibited at the Salons of 1852, 1855, and 1857. L'EXPOSITION DE 1859, a series of 9 irregularly numbered prints which appeared in the CHARIVARI between April and June 1859. SALON. The SALON, the yearly art exhibitions in Paris, were actually art fairs which attracted approximately 1 million visitors from Paris and the provinces. Hundreds of painters and sculptors exhibited. The Salons were the ideal marketplace for the classical painters as well as the new, modern, avant-garde artists. Having little access to private art galleries, these exhibits were especially for the progressive school of greatest economic importance. The jury played an increasingly important role for the future of an artist. Once an artist was rejected from the Salon by a conservative jury, he had most likely no chance to succeed commercially. Very often, a parallel Salon was organized for those artists whose works were refused at the official exhibition . This was the case in 1855, when Courbet’s pictures were considered too revolutionary to be exhibited at the Salon. As a consequence, Courbet opened his own exhibition outside of the official Salon. Baudelaire made some remarks concerning the Salons: “During our time there are only two artists in Paris who are as able as Delacroix: the caricaturist Daumier and the second one is Ingres. All three of them have one thing in common: they express what they mean to say…..” The SALON was for most artists the only possibility to present their works to a greater public. The Salon of 1834 for example attracted some 30’000 visitors already on the opening day. During the entire period of two months, a total of one million spectators went to the show. On certain days the ticket price was reduced to 20 sous or was even free of charge, attracting a large number of visitors. During the World Fair, which lasted from May 15 to November 15, 1855 thousands of visitors from Paris and abroad as well as from the French provinces visited the Salons. The most important annual event for French painters was the great exhibition, the SALON. The artists worked up to the last moment to finish their paintings before the opening of the show. Since the SALON was open for all painters, the number of participants increased steadily: 1806 750 works of art 1831 3182 works of art 1848 5140 works of art 1870 5434 works of art
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, April 20, 1859.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
