It was staged during the July Monarchy and was part of the tradition of Salons dating back to the seventeenth century.
[2] Eugène Delacroix exhibited The Prisoner of Chillon, based on a poem by Lord Byron.
[3] Jules Dupré, one of the Barbizon School influenced by John Constable, submitted a landscape painting View of the Pastures of the Limousin.
[4] Antoine-Jean Gros, a leading painter stretching back to the Napoleonic era, displayed the Neoclassical Hercules and Diomedes.
[5] Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres had exhibited at the Salon for several decade refused a request to submit his Portrait of Louis-Mathieu Molé, a politician soon afterwards to be Prime Minister, having taken over as director of the French Academy in Rome.