The Salon of 1767 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. It took place during the reign of Louis XV and was overseen by the Académie Royale. It was preceded by the Salon of 1765 and followed by the Salon of 1769.
The Alsatian artist Philip James de Loutherbourg, widely praised at the previous two Salons, returned with Landscape with Animals. The critic Denis Diderot considered the artist's work to represent "beautiful nature".Delon p.1047 Hubert Robert, a painter of landscapes and capriccios, made his Salon debut in 1767.Woodward p.153 He exhibited A View of Ripetta, a veduta of Rome.https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/50510005692 Jean Siméon Chardin submitted a lair of still life paintings The Attributes of Civilian and Military Music. In portraiture Louis-Michel van Loo exhibited a Portrait of Denis Diderot, the influential art critic who wrote extensively about the Salon, as well as another featuring the wife of Joseph Vernet. Alexander Roslin displayed his Portrait of Jean-François Marmontel. The sculptor Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain submitted his Venus at the Bath.Levey p.120 It was the final Salon at which Jean-Honoré Fragonard exhibited work despite his career continuing for several decades.Levey p.272
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Bibliography Delon, Michel (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Routledge, 2013. Levey, Michael. Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789. Yale University Press, 1993. Woodward, Christopher. In Ruins. Random House, 2010.