François-Auguste Biard, Bust-Length Study of a Man

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lt;b>The Artist:</b> Biard made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1824, and his success was assured through the awarding of a second-class medal in 1827 and a first-class medal in 1836. The Salon would be a mainstay of Biard’s career and he treated it as the subject of what is arguably his most emblematic painting, <i>The Salon, 4:00 in the Afternoon</i> (1847, Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 2347), which depicts visitors to the exhibition and its guards losing attention and their sense of decorum at the end of a long day