ABSTRACT
On 1 December, L'Artiste returned to the uncertainty, The turn of the year brought more uncertainties. The Salon's proposed location changed again, no longer the Tuileries but the Palais National, as the Palais-Royal was by then known. A commission established by the Ministers of the Interior, Finance, and War had agreed to bring the Palais National within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior and to allocate it in particular to the Salon. Gautier closed his ninth article by welcoming Daumier's arrival in the Salon with greater enthusiasm than he had that of Courbet. If Gautier had hoped that the first Salon of the Republic would bring revelation of powerful new work through which to take this legacy forward into the republican phase, his review of the event appears to imply that it had not lived up to his expectations.
