Salon of 1824

When two of his paintings had been rejected by the committee for the 1822 Salon, he had responded by withdrawing all his entries bar one and went on to hold a private exhibition in his own studios which was a great success.

[3] Amongst paintings displayed were Paul Delaroche's Joan of Arc, Sick, Interrogated in Prison by the Cardinal of Winchester depicting a scene from the Medieval era.

[4] The Salon featured a sharp contrast between neoclassical and romantic art typified by Eugène Delacroix's The Massacre at Chios depicting a scene from the Greek War of Independence and The Vow of Louis XIII by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

[5] Many of the officials, sculptors and painters involved in the 1824 Salon were featured in François Joseph Heim's 1827 painting Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists.

The President of the Royal Academy Sir Thomas Lawrence sent a copy of his Portrait of the Duke of Richelieu featuring a recent French Prime Minister.