Une VISITE A L'ATELIER. - Je vais l'envoyer au Louvre dans un instant,.... je crois qu'il produira certain effet!..... - C'est châââmant... c'est chââââmant!

Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M. · 1845

The Salon, the yearly art exhibitions in Paris, were actually art fairs which attracted approximately 1 million visitors from Paris and the provinces. Hundreds of painters and sculptors exhibited. The Salons were the ideal marketplace for the classical painters as well as the new, modern, avant-garde artists. Having little access to private art galleries, these exhibits were especially for the progressive school of greatest economic importance. The jury played an increasingly important role for the future of an artist. Once an artist was rejected from the Salon by a conservative jury, he most likely had no chance of succeeding commercially. Very often, a parallel Salon was organized for those artists whose works were refused at the official exhibition.