In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755 is an 1812 oil painting by the French artist Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier.
[1] It depicts the salon of Marie Thérèse Geoffrin in Paris at the middle of the eighteenth century.
[2] Produced during the Napoleonic era, it represents a nostalgic view of the intellectual elite of the Ancien Régime.
[3] It depicts a reading of Voltaire's play The Orphan of China.
Today it is in the collection of the Château de Malmaison in Paris, having been acquired in 1959.