Salon of 1765

As with previous salons, the art critic Denis Diderot was an influential figure.

[1] Amongst works featured were The Arts in Supplication an allegorical painting by Charles-André van Loo that had been commissioned by the Marquis de Marigny as a tribute to his sister Madame Pompadour who had died in 1764.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe was popular with both the public and critics.

[3] Jean-Baptiste Greuze exhibited a number of works to acclaim, although this would be his lazt Salon until after the French Revolution.

[4] Philip James de Loutherbourg who had impressed at his debut Salon two years earlier returned with a couple of landscape paintings including Morning After the Rain.