The Salon des Refusés, French for "exhibition of rejects" (French pronunciation: [salɔ̃ de ʁəfyze]), is generally known as an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863.
Today, by extension, salon des refusés refers to any exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show.
The Salon of 1875 was an art exhibition held at the Palace of Industry in Paris from 1 May to 29 June 1875. It took place during the Belle Époque when Academic art was at its height. Traditionally the Salon was the undisputed premier exhibition held in France, but a Salon des Refusés was held that year featuring works from the Impressionist movement.
Nonetheless, Édouard Manet featured at the Salon of 1875 with one his first overtly impressionistic work Argenteuil, depicting a couple by the River Seine. Jules Lefebvre was awarded a gold medal for Chloé, a nude painting featuring the naiad of the same name. It later became one of the best-known paintings in Australia.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (French: [lə deʒœne syʁ lɛʁb, -ʒøn-]; The Luncheon on the Grass) – originally titled Le Bain (The Bath) – is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet created in 1862 and 1863.
It depicts a nude woman and a scantily dressed bathing woman on a picnic with two fully dressed men in a rural setting. Rejected by the Salon jury of 1863, Manet seized the opportunity to exhibit this and two other paintings in the 1863 Salon des Refusés, where the painting sparked public notoriety and controversy. The work increased Manet's fame; in spite of this it nonetheless failed to sell at its debut.