The Salon of 1878 was an art exhibition held at the Palace of Industry in Paris which opened on 25 May 1878.https://salons.musee-orsay.fr/Detail/occurrences/143 It was the annual Salon staged by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and featured many leading painters and sculptors of the Belle Époque. The same year a separate art exhibition was held concurrently as part of the Exposition Universelle, which featured retrospectives and submissions from other countries such as the United Kingdom.
While there was no Impressionist Exhibition held that year, Pierre-Auguste Renoir submitted The Cup of Chocolate to the official Salon.Wheldon p.78 John Singer Sargent exhibited Setting Out to Fish which he had produced while staying on the coast of Brittany.Madsen p.140
Jules Bastien-Lepage displayed his genre painting Haymaking to great success.https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/les-foins-9174
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See also Royal Academy Exhibition of 1878, 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. Madsen, Annelise K. John Singer Sargent & Chicago's Gilded Age. Art Institute of Chicago, 20 Wheldon, Keith. Renoir and His Art. Book Value International, 1981.