Salon of 1763

Nonetheless The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie Vien was an early example of the Neoclassicism that would displace rococo to become the dominant style of the later nineteenth century.

[1] Philip James de Loutherbourg, a young painter from Alsace, made his Salon debut with Landscape with Figures and Animals.

As he did in other Salons, Diderot strongly praised Vernet's works for their faithful attention to real life.

[3] Jean-Baptiste Greuze displayed genre paintings such as Filial Piety, The Broken Mirror and Tender Memory.

[7] In portraiture François-Hubert Drouais displayed a double picture of the future Charles X and his sister Clotilde as children.