Art, politics, and the politics of art: Ingres's Saint Symphorien at the 1834 Salon.
From: The Art Bulletin
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Date: 12/1/2001
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Author: Shelton, Andrew Carrington
When the doors of the Louvre opened at noon on March 1, 1834, the public received its first glimpse of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's long-awaited painting Le Martyre de Saint Symphorien (The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien, Fig. 1). Commissioned by the government in 1824, this picture had been expected at the Salon as early as 1827; (1) its unveiling seven years later was thus the denouement to nearly a decade of speculation and intrigue in the Parisian art world. Although the ...
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