Salon of 1849

The Tuileries were a historic royal residence, and had before the revolution belonged to the now deposed Louis Philippe I.

A major beneficiary of this was the realist painter Gustave Courbet whose After Dinner at Ornans won a gold medal.

[5] The landscape artist Théodore Rousseau submitted his first work since one of his entries had been refused at the Salon of 1836.

[6] Adolphe Pierre Leleux produced a work featuring stonebreakers, a year before Courbet's more famous The Stone Breakers.

[7] In sculpture James Pradier exhibited the Neoclassical statue Chloris Caressed by Zephyrus.