A salon is a sitting room in a large, grand house. Official exhibition of art sponsored by the French government. It originated in 1667 when Louis XIV sponsored an exhibit of the works of the members of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. The Salon derives its name from the exhibition's location in the Salon d'Apollon of the Louvre Palace. After 1737 it became an annual event, and in 1748 the jury system of selection was introduced. During the French Revolution, the Salon was opened to all French artists, though academicians continued to maintain near-total control over the teaching and exhibition of art through most of the 19th century. In 1881 the new Société des Artistes Français began to oversee the Salon, and with the growing importance of independent exhibitions of the works of avant-garde artists, it gradually lost its influence and prestige
held in Paris at the Champs de Mars, by the Société Nationale des Beaux- Arts (National Society of Fine Arts), a body of artists who, in 1890, seceded from the Société des Artistes Français (Society of French Artists)
The official annual or biannual French art exhibition in nineteenth-century Paris organized by a body of judges who tended to award academic style and subjects (Pronunciation Guide)
A reception room or drawing room in a large house Also, the exhibition of work by living painters held in Paris at first biennially and since the mid-eighteenth century annually; so called because it was formerly held in the Salon Carre of the Louvre in Paris
Closed body style appellation first used by Cadillac with new 1915 V8 production; Fr word meaning "lounge" or "drawing room" (i e a body style offering all the comforts of your own home lounge) In England the equivalent term was "saloon"; the "salon" gave way to the "sedan" in America