The Salon of 1873 was an art exhibition held at the Palace of Industry in Paris from 5 May 1873.https://salons.musee-orsay.fr/Detail/occurrences/134 The exhibition was the annual edition of the Salon organised by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and featured many leading painters and sculptors from the early Third Republic, although a separate Salon des Refusés was held the same year.https://salons.musee-orsay.fr/Detail/occurrences/208 Many of the works on display at this, the official Salon, reflected the ascendency of academic art of the Belle Époque.
One of the most noted paintings on display was The Last Cartridges by Alphonse de Neuville depicting the Battle of Bazeilles during the Franco-Prussian War. He shows a combined group of French soldiers holding off the attacking Bavarian troops, presenting their heroic defence in the midst of the defeat as a moral victory.Milner p.55-56
Édouard Manet submitted Le Bon Bock.Brauer p.29 William-Adolphe Bouguereau displayed his nude Nymphs and Satyr.https://www.clarkart.edu/ArtPiece/Detail/Nymphs-and-Satyr Pierre Auguste Cot enjoyed success with Springtime.https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438158
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See also Royal Academy Exhibition of 1873, held at Burlington House in London
References
Bibliography Allard, Sébastien, Loyrette, Henri & Des Cars, Laurence. Nineteenth Century French Art: From Romanticism to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Art Nouveau. Rizzoli International Publications, 2007. Brauer, Fae. Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. Milner, John. Art, War and Revolution in France, 1870-1871: Myth, Reportage and Reality. Yale University Press, 2000.