Following on from « Ce Salon à quoi tout se ramène »: Le Salon de peinture et de sculpture, 1791-1890, published in 2010 as an earlier volume in this series, this volume contains a selection of the papers given at the first major international conference to be held on the post-1789 Paris Fine Art Salon. Hosted by the University of Exeter in September 2013, the conference had its origins in the research project entitled Painting for the Salon? The French State, Artists and Academy, 1830-1852, funded in 2010-2012 by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council, and its purpose was to situate findings of this research within the wider framework of the Salon's nineteenth-century history. In this collection of twenty-three papers, fourteen in English, nine in French, established and new scholars of French art history examine the national and international artistic, political and cultural dimensions of the most important regular exhibition of contemporary art in the nineteenth-century world.

James Kearns is Emeritus Professor of French Nineteenth-Century Studies in the University of Exeter. He has written extensively on French art criticism, with particular reference to the Paris Fine Art Salon and the art journalism of Theophile Gautier. He is currently one of the team of researchers producing the first critical edition of Gautier's reviews of the Salon between 1833 and 1872.
Alister Mill completed his doctoral thesis on the Third-Republic Salon painter Alfred Philippe Roll at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he subsequently spent four years as Visiting Lecturer. As Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter he co-produced with Dr Harriet Griffiths and in association with the Louvre's Archives des Musées Nationaux the online Database of Salon Artists (salonartists.org), and curated the exhibition The Paris Fine Art Salon, 1791-1881.

Contents: Richard Wrigley: Au seuil du Salon - Sarah Bakkali: Le Salon et le marché de l'art moderne à Paris (1791-1799) - Susan L. Siegfried: Salon and Early Republican Experiments in State Patronage - Daniel Harkett: Delphine Gay and the Paris Salon - Eva Bouillo: Le Salon des Refusés ne date pas de 1863! Les enjeux d'un face à face entre le Salon de l'opposition et le Salon officiel en 1827 - James Kearns: Legislating for the Salon, 1830-1833 - Alister Mill: Artists at the Salon during the July Monarchy - Harriet Griffiths: The Academy and the Salon Jury, 1831-1848 - Aurélie Gavoille: Étienne-Jean Delécluze (1781-1863), un observateur privilégié du Salon au XIX siècle - Christophe Longbois-Canil: Les Salons de 1843 et de 1844, miroirs d'une époque - Vera Klewitz: Between Capitals and Provinces: The French Painter Sophie Rude (1797-1867) - Arnaud Bertinet: La question du Salon au Louvre 1850-1853 - Laurent Cazes: Usages et enjeux de l'exposition au Salon pour les peintres étrangers, 1852-1881 - Elena Granuzzo: The Paris Salons 1791-1881: Controversies and Debates in the North of Italy in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Jana Wijnsouw: Sculpting a National Career Abroad: Belgian Sculptors at the Paris Salon - Isabel Valverde: L'influence des Salons au-delà des frontières nationales : le cas des Exposiciones Nacionales de Bellas Artes - Jon Whiteley: Literature and Painting at the Paris Salon, 1699-1881 - Diana Seave Greenwald: The Demand for Peasants: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery at the Paris Salon - Alison Mcqueen: Shifting Institutional Practices during the Second Empire: The Salon Lottery of 1859 - Debra J. Dewitte: The Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours in the French Salon: 1863-1881 - Alain Bonnet: Le Prix du Salon - Fae Brauer: «Turquet's Turkey»: Ending the Salon - Pierre Vaisse: Exposer hors du Salon.