# Salon Scene [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DANDRÉ-BARDON, Michel-François]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Pen, sepia ink and wash ## Commentary The salons, places of conversations in sophisticated social circles in Paris and the provinces, played an important role in 18th-century cultural life. Artistic undertakings, problems of decoration, and literary endeavours all became topics in the salons. It is interesting to note that the term designating social gatherings was also applied to the dominant mode of artistic exhibition, the famous Salons of painting. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Skulls]() - [Studies of Hands and Feet]() - [The Adoration of the Skulls]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()