Salon d'Or, Homburg

Salon D'Or, Homburg, is an 1871 oil painting by William Powell Frith. It is held by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island. The painting measures 125.1 by 260.4 centimetres (49.3 in × 102.5 in). It depicts an interior scene at the , run by the twin brothers François Blanc and Louis Blanc who would later run the Monte Carlo Casino. Frith visited Bad Homburg in 1869 with a friend, O'Neil. The popular casino near Frankfurt was due to close in 1871 when its 30-year lease expired. Frith was following several contemporaneous works of art and literature which had focussed on gambling and casinos, including artworks such as Alfred Elmore's 1865 On the Brink and Gustave Doré's 1867 Le Tapis Vert, and literary works such as Anthony Trollope's 1864 Can You Forgive Her? a

Salon d'Or, Homburg

Salon D'Or, Homburg, is an 1871 oil painting by William Powell Frith. It is held by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island. The painting measures 125.1 by 260.4 centimetres (49.3 in × 102.5 in). It depicts an interior scene at the , run by the twin brothers François Blanc and Louis Blanc who would later run the Monte Carlo Casino. Frith visited Bad Homburg in 1869 with a friend, O'Neil. The popular casino near Frankfurt was due to close in 1871 when its 30-year lease expired. Frith was following several contemporaneous works of art and literature which had focussed on gambling and casinos, including artworks such as Alfred Elmore's 1865 On the Brink and Gustave Doré's 1867 Le Tapis Vert, and literary works such as Anthony Trollope's 1864 Can You Forgive Her? a