Académie des Beaux-Arts

The Académie des Beaux-Arts (French pronunciation: [akade'mi de bo'z‿aʁ], Academy of Fine Arts) is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France.

It was created in 1795 as the merger of the:

• Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648)
• Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669)
• Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671)

Currently, the Académie des Beaux-Arts provides several awards including six dedicated prizes :

• Liliane Bettencourt Choral Singing Prize
• Pierre David-Weill Drawing Prize
• Pierre Cardin Prize
• Nahed Ojjeh Prize
• Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Music Prize
• Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Painting or Sculpture Prize

Previously the Académie granted the Prix Rossini for excellence in libretto or music composition.

Members

The members are grouped into eight sections:

• Section I: Painting
• Section II: Sculpture
• Section III: Architecture
• Section IV: Etching
• Section V: Musical composition
• Section VI: Unattached members
• Section VII: Artistic creation in the cinema and the audio-visual field (since 1985)
• Section VIII: Photography (since 2005)

Current member as of January 2010 on alphabetical order

Section I: Painting

The number of members of the Painting section was reduced from 14 to 12 by the decree # 67-778 of 23 August 1967. As a consequence, the #3 and #14 seats were suppressed. Their number was further decreased from 12 to 11 by decree on 16 June 1987. The #12 seat was transferred to section VII. The #1 seat was transferred to section VII in 1998, and their number was decreased from 11 to 10.

Seat #1

This seat was transferred to section VII in 1998.

• Gérard van Spaendonck (1746–1822), elected in 1795
• Louis Hersent (1777–1860), elected in 1822
• Emile Signol (1804–1892), elected in 1860
• Luc-Olivier Merson (1846–1920), elected in 1892
• Paul Chabas (1869–1937), elected in 1921
• Edouard Vuillard (1868–1940), elected in 1938
• Pierre Montezin (1874–1946), elected in 1941
• Charles Fouqueray (1871–1956), elected in 1947
• Yves Brayer (1907–1990), elected in 1957

Seat #2

• François Vincent (1746–1816), elected in 1795
• Pierre Prud'hon (1763–1823), elected in 1816
• Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (1758–1846), elected in 1823
• Jacques Bascassat (1804–1867), elected in 1846
• Louis Cabat (1812–1893), elected in 1867
• Jean Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902), elected in 1893
• Jacques Humbert (1842–1934), elected in 1902
• Emile Aubry (1880–1964), elected in 1935
• Félix Labisse (1905–1982), elected in 1966
• Pierre Carron (1932), elected in 1990

Seat #3

This seat was discontinued in 1967.

• Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829), elected in 1795
• François Heim (1787–1865), elected in 1829
• Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), elected in 1865
• Emile Carolus Duran (1838–1917), elected in 1904
• Ernest Laurent (1859–1929), elected in 1919
• Henri Le Sidaner (1862–1939), elected in 1930
• Jean Dupas (1882–1964), elected in 1941

Seat #4

• Nicolas Taunay (1755–1830), elected in 1795
• François Granet (1779–1849), elected in 1830
• Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797–1890), elected in 1850
• François-Louis Français (1814–1897), elected in 1890
• Antoine Vollon (1833–1900), elected in 1897
• Pascal Dagnan 1852–1929), elected in 1900
• Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875–1932), elected in 1930
• Georges Leroux (1877–1957), elected in 1932
• Georges Cheyssial (1907–1997), elected in 1958
• Olivier Debré (1920–1999), elected in 1999
• Jean Cortot (1925), elected in 2001

Seat #5

• Vivant Denon (1747–1825), elected in 1803
• Jean-Dominique Ingres (1781–1867), elected in 1825
• Jean-Baptiste Hesse (1806–1879), elected in 1867
• Jules Delaunay (1828–1891), elected in 1879
• Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1834–1911), elected in 1891
• Paul-Albert Besnard (1849–1934), elected in 1912
• Jérôme Sabatté (1874–1940), elected in 1935
• Louis Biloul (1874–1947), elected in 1941
• Edmond Heuzé (1889–1967), elected in 1948
• Georges Rohner (1913–2000), elected in 1968

Seat #6

• Ennius-Quirinus Visconti (1751–1818), elected in 1803
• Guillaume Le Thière (1760–1832), elected in 1818
• Merry-Joseph Blondel (1781–1853), elected in 1832
• Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809–1864), elected in 1853
• Charles-Louis Müller (1815–1892), elected in 1864
• Jean-Baptiste Detaille (1848–1912), elected in 1892
• André Baschet (1862–1941), elected in 1913
• Robert Pougheon (1886–1955), elected in 1942
• Alfred Giess (1901–1973), elected in 1955
• Georges Mathieu (1921), elected in 1975

Seat #7

• François Menageot (1744–1816), elected in 1809
• Etienne Garnier (1759–1849), elected in 1816
• Léon Cogniet (1794–1880), elected in 1849
• Léon Bonnat (1833–1922), elected in 1881
• Jean-Louis Forain (1852–1931), elected in 1923
• Maurice Denis (1870–1943), elected in 1932
• Pierre-Paul Jouve (1878–1973), elected in 1945
• Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), elected in 1974
• Vladimir Veličković (1935), elected in 2005

Seat #8

• François Gérard (1770–1837), elected in 1812
• Jean-Victor Schnetz (1787–1870), elected in 1837
• Paul Baudry (1828–1886), elected in 1870
• Jules Breton (1827–1906), elected in 1886
• Gabriel Ferrier (1847–1914), elected in 1906
• Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (1860–1943), elected in 1917
• Gustave Jaulmes (1873–1959), elected in 1944
• André Planson (1898–1981), elected in 1960
• Jean Bertholle (1909–1996), elected in 1983
• Guy de Rougemont (1935), elected in 1997

Seat #9

• Pierre Guérin (1774–1833), elected in 1816
• Michel Drölling (1786–1851), elected in 1833
• Jean Alaux (1786–1864), elected in 1851
• Henri Lehmann (1814–1882), elected in 1864
• Gustave Boulanger (1824–1888), elected in 1882
• Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), elected in 1888
• Aimé Morot (1850–1913), elected in 1898
• Henri Gervex (1852–1929), elected in 1913
• André Devambez (1867–1944), elected in 1929
• Willem van Hasselt (1882–1963), elected in 1945
• Edouard Goerg (1893–1969), elected in 1965
• Jacques Despierre (1912–1995), elected in 1969
• Teh Chun Chu (1926), elected in 1997

Seat #10

• Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), elected in 1803
• Aîné Jean le Barbier (1738–1826), elected in 1816
• Horace Vernet (1789–1863), elected in 1826
• Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), elected in 1863
• Jean-Jacques Henner (1829–1905), elected in 1889
• Léon Lhermitte (1844–1925), elected in 1905
• Emile Ménard (1862–1930), elected in 1926
• George Desvallières (1861–1950), elected in 1930
• Jean Bouchaud (1891–1977), elected in 1951
• Jean Carzou (1907–2000), elected in 1977
• Zao Wou Ki (1921), elected in 2002

Seat #11

• Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767–1824), elected in 1816
• Charles Thévenin (1764–1838), elected in 1825
• Jérôme Langlois (1779–1838), elected in 1838
• Louis Couder (1790–1873), elected in 1839
• Antoine Hébert (1817–1908), elected in 1874
• Raphaël Collin (1850–1916), elected in 1909
• Adolphe Déchenaud (1868–1926), elected in 1918
• Lucien Simon (1861–1945), elected in 1929
• Jean Souverbie (1891–1981), elected in 1946
• Arnaud d'Hauterives (1933), elected in 1984

Seat #12

This seat was transferred to section VII in 1987.

• Antoine Gros (1771–1835), elected in 1816
• Alexandre Abel de Pujol (1787–1861), elected in 1835
• Jean Meissonier (1815–1891), elected in 1861
• Jean-Paul Laurens (1838–1921), elected in 1891
• Jules Meunier (1863–1942), elected in 1921
• René Prinet (1861–1946), elected in 1943
• Nicolas Untersteller (1900–1967), elected in 1946
• Roger Chastel (1897–1981), elected in 1968
• Georges Wakhévitch (1907–1984), elected in 1982

Seat #13

• Charles Meynier (1768–1832), elected in 1816
• Paul Delaroche (1797–1856), elected in 1832
• Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), elected in 1857
• Nicolas Hesse (1795–1869), elected in 1863
• Jules Lenepveu (1819–1898), elected in 1869
• Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), elected in 1898
• Edgar Maxence (1871–1954), elected in 1924
• Lucien Fontanarosa (1912–1975), elected in 1955
• Hans Hartung (1904–1989), elected in 1977
• Jean Dewasne (1921–1999), elected in 1991
• Yves Millecamps (1930), elected in 2001

Seat #14

This seat was eliminated in 1967.

• Carle Vernet (1758–1836), elected in 1816
• François-Édouard Picot (1786–1868), elected in 1836
• Isidore Pils (1815–1875), elected in 1868
• William Bouguereau (1825–1905), elected in 1876
• François Flameng (1856–1923), elected in 1905
• Emile Friant (1863–1932), elected in 1923
• Paul Laurens (1870–1934), elected in 1933
• Jacques Blanck (1861–1942), elected in 1935
• Louis Désiré-Lucas (1869–1949), elected in 1943
• Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889–1962), elected in 1950
• Jean Lurçat (1892–1966), elected in 1964

Section III: Architecture

Seat #1

• elected 1795 : Jacques Gondoin (1737–1818)
• 1819 : Maximilien Joseph Hurtault (1765–1824)
• 1824 : Pierre-Jules Delespine (1756–1825)
• 1825 : Louis-Hippolyte Lebas (1782–1867)
• 1868 : Léon Vaudoyer (1803–1872)
• 1872 : Théodore Ballu (1817–1885)
• 1885 : Honoré Daumet (1826–1911)
• 1912 : Edmond Paulin (1848–1915)
• 1918 : Henri Deglane (1855–1931)
• 1931 : Paul Bigot (1870–1942)
• 1943 : Auguste Perret (1874–1954)
• 1954 : Roger-Henri Expert (1882–1955)
• 1956 : Charles Nicod (1878–1967)
• 1968 : Jean de Mailly (1911–1975)
• 1976 : Jacques Couëlle (1902–1996)
• 1998 : André Wogenscky (1916–2004)
• 2008 : Jacques Rougerie (1945)

Seat #2

• 1795 : Antoine-François Peyre (1739–1823)
• 1823 : Antoine Vaudoyer (1756–1846)
• 1846 : Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1791–1883)
• 1884 : Louis-Jules André (1819–1890)
• 1890 : Jean-Louis Pascal (1837–1920)
• 1920 : Jean-Camille Formigé (1845–1926)
• 1926 : Alexandre Marcel (1860–1928)
• 1928 : Alphonse Defrasse (1860–1939)
• 1939 : Patrice Bonnet (1879–1964)
• 1961 : Noël Le Maresquier (1903–1982)
• 1983 : Bernard Zehrfuss (1911–1996)
• 1998 : Michel Folliasson (1925)

Seat #3

• 1795 : Pierre Paris (1745–1819)
• 1796 : Léon Dufourny (1754–1818)
• 1818 : Jean-Thomas Thibault (1757–1826)
• 1826 : Éloi Labarre (1764–1833)
• 1833 : Auguste Guenepin (1780–1842)
• 1842 : Martin-Pierre Gauthier (1790–1855)
• 1855 : Hector Lefuel (1810–1880)
• 1881 : Léon Ginain (1825–1898)
• 1898 : Louis Bernier (1845–1919)
• 1919 : Albert Tournaire (1862–1958)
• 1958 : Albert Laprade (1883–1978)
• 1979 : Maurice Novarina (1907–2002)
• 2008 : Aymeric Zublena (1936)

Seat #4

• 1795 : Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)
• 1799 : Jacques Denis Antoine (1733–1801)
• 1801 : Jean-François Heurtier (1739–1811)
• 1822 : Jean-Nicolas Huyot (1780–1840)
• 1840 : Auguste Caristie (1783–1862)
• 1863 : Victor Baltard (1805–1874)
• 1874 : Charles Garnier (1825–1898)
• 1898 : Constant Moyaux (1835–1911)
• 1911 : Louis Marie Cordonnier (1854–1940)
• 1942 : Jules Formigé (1879–1960)
• 1961 : Eugène Beaudouin (1898–1983)
• 1983 : Roger Taillibert (1926)

Seat #5

• 1795 : Charles De Wailly (1729–1798)
• 1799 : Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (1739–1811)
• 1811 : Charles Percier (1764–1838)
• 1838 : Jean-Jacques Huvé (1783–1852)
• 1853 : Jacques-Ignace Hittorf (1792–1867)
• 1867 : Henri Labrouste (1801–1875)
• 1875 : Antoine-Nicolas Bailly (1810–1892)
• 1892 : Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet (1829–1895)
• 1895 : Henri-Paul Nénot (1853–1934)
• 1935 : Gustave Umbdenstock (1866–1940)
• 1942 : Paul Tournon (1881–1964)
• 1965 : Urbain Cassan (1890–1979)
• 1979 : André Remondet (1908–1998)
• 1999 : Jean Balladur (1924–2002)
• 2005 : Claude Parent (1923)

Seat #6

• 1795 : Jean-Arnaud Raymond (1742–1811)
• 1811 : Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853)
• 1853 : Émile Jacques Gilbert (1793–1874)
• 1875 : Paul Abadie (1812–1884)
• 1884 : Arthur-Stanislas Diet (1827–1890)
• 1890 : Alfred-Nicolas Normand (1822–1909)
• 1909 : Victor Laloux (1850–1937)
• 1938 : Charles Lemaresquier (1870–1972)
• 1972 : Marc Saltet (1906–2008)

Seat #7

• 1815 : Jean-Baptiste Rondelet (1743–1829)
• 1829 : Jacques Molinos (1750–1831)
• 1831 : Achille Leclère (1785–1853)
• 1854 : Alphonse de Gisors (1796–1866)
• 1867 : Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer (1829–1879)
• 1879 : Joseph-Louis Duc (1802–1914)
• 1914 : Gaston Redon (1853–1921)
• 1922 : Emmanuel Pontremoli (1865–1956)
• 1957 : Jacques Carlu (1890–1976)
• 1977 : Christian Langlois (1924–2007)

Seat #8

• 1815 : Jacques-Charles Bonnard (1765–1818)
• 1818 : Bernard Poyet (1742–1898)
• 1825 : François Debret (1777–1850)
• 1850 : Guillaume Abel Blouet (1795–1853)
• 1853 : Louis Visconti (1791–1853)
• 1854 : Félix Duban (1797–1870)
• 1871 : Charles-Auguste Questel (1807–1888)
• 1888 : Georges-Ernest Coquart (1831–1902)
• 1902 : Charles-Louis Girault (1851–1932)
• 1933 : Henri Prost (1874–1959)
• 1960 : Roger Séassal (1885–1967)
• 1968 : Guillaume Gillet (1912–1987)

Seat #9

• 1968 : Henry Bernard (1912–1994)
• 1996 : Paul Andreu (1938)

Seat #10

• 2002 : Yves Boiret (1926)

Section VI: Unattached members

Seat #1

• Comte de Vaublanc (1756–1846), elected in 1816
• Alphonse de Cailleux (1787–1876), elected in 1845
• Émile Perrin (1815–1885), elected in 1876
• Alphonse de Rothschild (1827–1905), elected in 1885
• Paul Richer (1849–1933), elected in 1905
• David David-Weill (1871–1952), elected in 1934
• Albert Sarraut (1872–1962), elected in 1953
• Robert Rey (1888–1964), elected in 1964
• André Arbus (1903–1969), elected in 1965
• Pierre David-Weill (1900–1975), elected in 1970
• Germain Bazin (1901–1990), elected in 1975
• Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), elected in 1991
• William Christie (1944), elected in 2008

Seat #2

• Pierre Blacas d'Aulps (1771–1839), elected in 1816
• Aristide Dumont (1790–1853), elected in 1839
• Émilien de Nieuwerkerke (1811–1892), elected in 1853
• Emile Michel (1828–1909), elected in 1892
• Jules Comte (1816–1912), elected in 1909
• Henry Lemonnier (1842–1936), elected in 1913
• Maurice de Rothschild (1881–1957), elected in 1937

Seat #3

• Comte de Vaudreuil (1740–1817), elected in 1816
• Duc de Richelieu (1766–1822), elected in 1817
• Jacques Lauriston (1768–1828), elected in 1822
• Joseph Siméon (1781–1846), elected in 1828
• Charles Duchatel (1803–1867), elected in 1846
• Henri Delaborde (1811–1899), elected in 1868
• Jacques de Cardaillac (1818–1879), elected in 1874
• Duc d'Aumale (1822–1897), elected in 1880
• Prince d'Arenberg (1837–1924), elected in 1897
• Jacques Rouché (1862–1957), elected in 1924
• Raymond Subes (1891–1970), elected in 1958
• Daniel Wildenstein (1917–2001), elected in 1971
• Hugues R. Gall (1940), elected in 2002

Seat #4

• Comte de Pradel (1779–1857), elected in 1816
• Achille Fould (1800–1867), elected in 1857
• Baron Haussmann (1809–1891), elected in 1867
• Jean Alphand (1817–1891), elected in 1891
• Georges Lafenestre (1837–1919), elected in 1892
• Vicomte de Castelnau (1851–1944), elected in 1919
• André Lemoisne (1875–1964), elected in 1945
• Paul-Louis Weiller (1893–1993), elected in 1965
• Maurice Béjart (1927–2007), elected in 1994

Seat #5

• Antoine Castellan (1772–1838), elected in 1816
• Comte de Clarac (1777–1847), elected in 1838
• Baron Taylor (1789–1879), elected in 1847
• Marquis de Chennevières (1820–1899), elected in 1879
• Henri Roujon (1853–1914), elected in 1899
• Georges Berger (1834–1910), elected in 1903
• Théophile Homolle (1848–1925), elected in 1910
• Etienne Moreau-Nelaton (1859–1927), elected in 1925
• Louis Hourticq (1875–1944), elected in 1927
• François Labrousse (1878–1951), elected in 1945
• Julien Cain (1887–1975), elected in 1952
• Bernard Gavoty (1908–1981), elected in 1975
• Michel David-Weill (1932), elected in 1982

Seat #6

• Comte de Turpin-Crissé (1782–1859), elected in 1816
• Georges Kastner (1810–1867), elected in 1859
• Comte de Walewski (1810–1868), elected in 1868
• Charles Blanc (1813–1882), elected in 1868
• Edmond du Sommerard (1817–1885), elected in 1882
• Léon Heuzey (1831–1922), elected in 1885
• Paul Léon (1874–1962), elected in 1922
• Georges Wildenstein (1892–1963), elected in 1963
• René Dumesnil (1879–1967), elected in 1965
• Gérald van der Kemp (1912–2002), elected in 1968
• Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere, elected in 2005

Seat #7

• Comte de Choiseul Gouffier (1752–1817), elected in 1816
• Comte de Chabrol de Volvic (1773–1843), elected in 1817
• Comte de Rambuteau (1781–1869), elected in 1843
• Albert Lenoir (1801–1891), elected in 1869
• Georges Duplessis (1834–1899), elected in 1891
• Jules Guiffrey (1840–1918), elected in 1899
• Maurice Fenaille (1855–1937), elected in 1919
• Gabriel Cognacq (1880–1951), elected in 1938
• Louis Hautecœur (1884–1973), elected in 1952
• Pierre Dehaye (1921), elected in 1975

Seat #8

• Etienne Gois (1731–1823), elected in 1816
• Marquis de Pastoret (1791–1857), elected in 1823
• Prince N. Bonaparte (1822–1891), elected in 1857
• Louis Larroumet (1852–1903), elected in 1891
• Comte de Delaborde (1811–1899), elected in 1898
• Philippe Gille (1830–1901), elected in 1899
• Edouard Aynard (1837–1913), elected in 1901
• Louis de Fourcaud (1851–1914), elected in 1913
• André Michel (1853–1925), elected in 1918
• Adolphe Boschot (1871–1955), elected in 1926
• Henri Verne (1880–1949), elected in 1937
• Jean Bourguignon (1876–1953), elected in 1949
• Charles Kunstler (1887–1977), elected in 1954
• Pierre Dux (1908–1990), elected in 1978
• Pierre Cardin (1922), elected in 1992

Seat #9

• Comte de Forbin (1777–1841), elected in 1816
• Comte de Houdetot (1778–1859), elected in 1841
• Frédéric Mercey (1803–1860), elected in 1859
• Jules Pelletier (1823–1875), elected in 1860
• François Gruyer (1825–1909), elected in 1875
• Justin Deselves (1818–1934), elected in 1910
• René Baschet (1860–1949), elected in 1935
• Comte Doria (1890–1977), elected in 1950
• Marcel Carné (1906–1996), elected in 1979

Seat #10

• Vicomte de Senonnes (1781–1840), elected in 1816
• Comte de Montalivet (1801–1880), elected in 1840
• Joseph Barbet de Jouy (1812–1896), elected in 1880
• Edouard Corroyer (1835–1904), elected in 1896
• Henri Bouchot (1849–1906), elected in 1904
• Edmond de Rothschild (1845–1934), elected in 1906
• Amiral Lacaze (1860–1955), elected in 1935
• Jacques Jaujard (1895–1967), elected in 1955
• Gaston Palewski (1901–1984), elected in 1968
• Louis Pauwels (1920–1997), elected in 1985
• Henri Loyrette (1952), elected in 1997

Seat #11

Seat created by decree on 18 June 1946

• Louis Réau (1881–1961), elected in 1947
• André Cornu (1892–1980), elected in 1962
• Michel Faré (1913–1985), elected in 1981
• André Bettencourt (1919–2007), elected in 1986

Seat #12

Seat created by decree on 18 June 1946 and suppressed by decree on 28 November 1956.

• François Debat (1882–1956), elected in 1947

Seat #13

Seat created by decree on 8 June 1998

• François-Bernard Michel (1936), elected in 2000

See also

• Beaux-Arts architecture
• École des Beaux-Arts
• Academic art
• French art salons and academies

External links

• http://www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr
• http://www.institut-de-france.fr/institut/acabeaux.htm