A Salon in Restoration Taste
early 1820s
Medium
interiors
Classification
interiors
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Thaw Collection
Accession Number
2007-27-6
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of early 19th-century France with *A Salon in Restoration Taste*, a captivating interior scene painted by Hilaire Thierry, a French active from 1815 to 1825. Created in the early 182s, this work offers a glimpse into the refined domestic spaces of the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830), when the monarchy was revived after Napoleon's fall. Salons like this one were the heart of social life, where intellectuals, aristocrats, and artists gathered amid luxurious furnishings that blended neoclassical symmetry with emerging romantic flourishes. Thierry's depiction highlight...