Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists

Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists (French: Charles X distribuant des récompenses aux artistes exposants du salon de 1824 au Louvre, le 15 Janvier 1825) is an 1827 painting by the French artist François Joseph Heim. It depicts the French monarch Charles X awarding legion of honours to artists who exhibited at the 1824 Paris Salon at a ceremony held on 15 January 1825. The King who had succeeded his brother Louis XVIII in 1824 is shown in the uniform of the National Guard. It features portraits of many of the leading artists of the era. The royal official Ambroise-Polycarpe de La Rochefoucauld and the director of the Louvre Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin are shown close to the king. Heim became a celebrated depicter of scenes of the Bourbon Restoration. It is now in the collection of the Louvre and is displayed in the Salon Carré.