Exposition des Beaux-Arts - Dans le salon carre - Un Instant de repos
Medium
wood engraving
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow
Accession Number
1978.82.34
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th-century Paris with *Exposition des Beauxts - Dans le salon - Un Instant de repos*, a wood engraving from 1868 by Etienne after the renowned Honoré Daumier. This print captures a fleeting moment of repose amid the grandeur of the Louvre's Salon Carré, a hallowed square gallery famed for housing masterpieces by artists like Raphael and Titian during the annual Salons—France's premier art exhibitions under Napoleon III's Second Empire. Daumier, a master satirist and pioneer of Realism, infused his works with sharp social commentary, often poking fun at the pre...