The Salon; a collection of the choicest paintings recently executed by distinguished European artists ..
The Salon is a 1881 New York collection of engravings after recent paintings by European artists, compiled by Charles Carroll for an American audience interested in contemporary European academic and Salon art. The pictures are monochrome reproductions of crowded genre scenes, with dense hatching, strong dark masses, and figures grouped in busy interiors and street settings, showing a designer how tonal contrast and crowd composition can carry a narrative without colour.
