 Most of Piot's Salon early Salon submissions were commissioned portraits of women.With the 1870 Salon he began to exhibit genre works with titles such as "Abandonée" (The Abandoned), "Coquetterie" (Coquetry), and "La Lettre" (The Letter).Adolphe Piot created expressive depictions of beautiful women, with dark backgrounds to draw attention to the subject, and also made many works showing children.