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James McNeill Whistler: Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl
James McNeill Whistler: Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl One of the works on display at the Salon des Refusés is Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, oil on canvas by James McNeill Whistler, 1862; at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Salon des Refusés

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Salon des RefusĂ©s, (French: Salon of the Refused), art exhibition held in 1863 in Paris by command of Napoleon III for those artists whose works had been refused by the jury of the official Salon. Among the exhibitors were Paul CĂ©zanne, Camille Pissarro, Armand Guillaumin, Johan Jongkind, Henri Fantin-Latour, James Whistler, and Édouard Manet, who exhibited his famous painting “Le DĂ©jeuner sur l’herbe,” officially regarded as a scandalous affront to taste.

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