place
the Salon
also: Salon, картинная выставка
The annual Paris painting exhibition (the Salon), visited by Chekhov during his April/May 1891 trip; he reports seeing only half of it owing to his short sight and judges the French landscapists he saw there inferior to Levitan. Distinct from the Salon des Varietes/Salon de Variete nightclub venues elsewhere in this corpus.
Reading notes
- To the Chekhovs, 1891. Paris. §11 the picture exhibition (the Salon)
The annual official Paris Salon painting exhibition, distinct from the Salon des Varietes/Salon de Variete cabaret venues that appear elsewhere in this corpus; Chekhov reports seeing only half of it owing to his uncorrected short sight, the same problem prompting the pince-nez request earlier in this same section.