Displaying Art: From the Salon to the White Cube
Part I: The Salon
Charles Joseph Natoire, Life Drawing Class at the French Academy, 1746
Pietro Antonio Martini, View of the 1785 Salon, 1785 Terms: salon carré; livret
After Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin, Exhibition Room, Somerset House, from The Microcosm of London (1808)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self-portrait with Two Pupils, 1785
Pietro Antonio Martini, View of the 1785 Salon, 1785 Term: prix de Rome
After Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin, Exhibition Room, Somerset House, from The Microcosm of London (1808)
Charles West Cope, J. M. W. Turner Painting in Somerset House, c J. M. W. Turner, Helvoetsluys, 1832 Turner’s rival: John Constable
Manet, Olympia, 1863
Pietro Antonio Martini, View of the 1785 Salon, 1785
La Font de Saint-Yenne, Reflections on Some Causes of the Current State of Painting in France, 1747 Claude-Henri Watelet, La Font de Saint- Yenne
Louis-Léopold Boilly, Exhibition of David’s Coronation at the Salon of 1808, c. 1808
David, The Coronation of Napoleon,
Louis-Léopold Boilly, Exhibition of David’s Coronation at the Salon of 1808, c. 1808
Salon livret
Louis-Léopold Boilly, Exhibition of David’s Coronation at the Salon of 1808, c. 1808
A. Niquet, Saturday at the Salon (Salon of 1819), 1819
Image from the Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1820s From the Journal des Dames et des Modes, 15 Sept 1824: “We noticed at the Salon several fashionable women in embroidered black tulle dresses, decorated with three parallel rows of flounces... between each flounce was a roll of ribbon. Some of these dresses had short sleeves; others had long, puffed out sleeves of embroidered tulle...”
Part II: Impressionism and the Decline of the Salon
Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1873
Nadar’s studio First Impressionist exhibition held here in 1874; total of 8 Impressionist exhibitions staged
The Salon of 1861 E. Bichon, Exhibition of Watercolors in the Durand-Ruel Gallery, 1879 Term coined by Harrison and Cynthia White: “the dealer-critic system”
Part III: Displaying Modern Art at MoMA and Elsewhere
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
Exterior and Interior views of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1939
El Lissitzky, Abstract Cabinet, Landesmuseum, Hanover, Director of the Hanover (and later RISD) Museum: Alexander Dorner
Installation view of First Papers of Surrealism, 1942
Arnold Newman, Marcel Duchamp, 1942