Salon of 1761

Staged during the reign of Louis XV and at a time when the Seven Years' War against Britain and Prussia was at its height, it reflected the taste of the Ancien régime during the mid-eighteenth century.

[2] The exhibition was notable for the paintings of Jean-Baptiste Greuze who displayed fourteen works including The Laundress and The Village Bride.

Louis-Michel van Loo exhibited his Portrait of Louis XV, now a lost work but with several contemporary copies surviving.

Charles-André van Loo exhibited Mary Magdalene in the Desert and Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays's The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, which were praised by Diderot.

[6] [7] Sculptures on display included Nymph Drying Her Hair by Louis-Claude Vassé, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.