Salon of 1841

Held during the July Monarchy it was the annual edition of the Salon, the country's premier art exhibition.

Overseen by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, it featured entries from a variety of fields including painting, sculpture and architecture.

Eugène Delacroix, one of the leading romantic painters submitted three works: the historical Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople, The Shipwreck of Don Juan based on a poem of Lord Byron and an Orientalist genre painting Jewish Wedding in Morocco.

[1] Théodore Chassériau presented Andromeda Chained to the Rock[2] while François-Auguste Biard entered Magdalena Bay.

[3] The German portraitist Franz Xaver Winterhalter displayed a painting of the Duchess of Nemours, the daughter-in-law of Louis Philippe I. Théodore Rousseau, a landscape painter of the Barbizon school, submitted The Avenue of Chestnut Trees.