The Salon of 1771 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris. Organised by the Académie Royale, it ran from 25 August to 23 September 1771. Taking place during the Ancien régime, it was the biannual edition of the Salon.
In portraiture François-Hubert Drouais exhibited a picture of Louis, Count of Clermont, a distant cousin of Louis XVI, known for his military service during the Seven Years' War.https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE007302 Guillaume Voiriot depicted the poet Charles-Pierre Colardeau.Ancient and Modern Nasters in the Collections of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2001. p.68 Philip James de Loutherbourg's The Little Milkmaid combined landscape and genre painting.https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE022361
Jean Siméon Chardin, suffering from failing eyesight, abandoned oil painting and instead exhibited there pastel paintings including a Self-Portrait of himself with glasses.Rosenberg p.324 The sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon displayed a terracotta bust of the art critic Denis Diderot. Diderot was known for his influential reviews of the Salons. Of this work he simply described it as "a good likeness".Poulet p.141
Gallery
See also Royal Academy Exhibition of 1771, held in London
References
Bibliography Poulet, Anne L. Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press, 2003. Rosenberg, Pierre. Chardin. Royal Academy of Arts, 2000.