This volume contains papers from the first major conference on the post-1789 Paris Fine Art Salon (University of Exeter, September 2013), originating from research project Painting for the Salon? The French State, Artists and Academy, 1830–1852. It examines the national and international artistic, political and cultural dimensions of the Salon.

This series publishes the latest research by teachers and researchers working in all the disciplines which constitute French studies in this period. The Editors take a broad view of French studies and intend to examine literary and cultural phenomena of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, excluding the Romantic movement, against their historical, political and social background in all the French-speaking countries.