The Alsatian artist Philip James de Loutherbourg, widely praised at the previous two Salons, returned with Landscape with Animals.
The critic Denis Diderot considered the artist's work to represent "beautiful nature".
[3] Jean Siméon Chardin submitted a lair of still life paintings The Attributes of Civilian and Military Music.
In portraiture Louis-Michel van Loo exhibited a Portrait of Denis Diderot, the influential art critic who wrote extensively about the Salon, as well as another featuring the wife of Joseph Vernet.
[4] It was the final Salon at which Jean-Honoré Fragonard exhibited work despite his career continuing for several decades.