Salon of 1847

The Salon of 1847 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris between 1 May and 15 August 1847. Organised by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, it took place in the Louvre's Salon Carré and Grande Galerie. One of the exhibited paintings Four O'Clock at the Salon by François-Auguste Biard, specifically displays the Grande Galerie at closing time during the Salon.
Horace Vernet presented his Louis Philippe and His Sons,commissioned for the Palace of Versailles. Thomas Couture enjoyed great success with his history painting The Romans in their Decadence.
Amongst other works on display were the biblical scene Judith at the Gates of Bethulia by Jules-Claude Ziegler and The Cock Fight by Jean-Léon Gérôme. The sculptor Auguste Clésinger displayed the marble Woman Bitten by a Serpent
Stylistically Romanticism remained prominent.
The Salon was held towards the end of the July Monarchy before the overthrow of Louis Philippe I in the French Revolution of 1848.