Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by material or technique]
7. paintings (visual works)
8. [paintings by location or context]

Anotations

Scope note:

Paintings that were initially exhibited in the official Paris Salon of the 18th and 19th centuries, where members of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture would exhibit recent works. Salon paintings are most often academic in nature, and are reflective of the forum in which they were exhibited; i.e.: a competition for public and private commissions.