Salon of 1831

Painted in Romantic style it depicts the recent July Revolution that had brought the reigning monarch Louis Philippe I to power over his cousin Charles X.

Also on display were two portraits by Alexandre-Marie Colin of the poet Jean-Georges Farcy, killed during the storming of the Tuileries Palace.

History paintings on display featured several works by Paul Delaroche who included two scenes from British history The Children of Edward depicting the Princes in the Tower and Cromwell Opening the Coffin of Charles I.

[2][3] Eugène Delacroix also exhibited The Murder of the Bishop of Liège based on a scene from the novel Quentin Durward by Walter Scott.

The Salon featured elements of Orientalism, an increasingly fashionable genre that would grow through subsequent years in the wake of the French invasion of Algeria in 1830.