Salon of 1819

It was the first to be held since the withdrawal of Allied Occupation forces from the country at the end of the previous year.

The two officials behind the exhibition the Count Forbin and Vicomte de Senonnes set out to make it even more a celebration of the House of Bourbon that the previous Salon of 1817.

[3] Over a hundred paintings were in the then fashionable Troubadour style including Roger Freeing Angelica by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

By contrast Horace Vernet's Massacre of the Mamelukes, taken to be a covert reference to the White Terror against Napoleon's supporters, was allowed to be displayed.

[5] Vernet exhibited a number of works at the Salon including The Dog of the Regiment Wounded.