Académie des Beaux-Arts
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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.
The Chairman of the Academy for 2013 is Lucien Clergue - famous photographer.
The Academy was created in 1816 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.
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Members[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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
- Marcel 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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-Louis-Ernest 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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[edit]
Seat #1[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 1968 : Henry Bernard (1912–1994)
- 1996 : Paul Andreu (1938)
Seat #10[edit]
- 2002 : Yves Boiret (1926)
Section VI: Unattached members[edit]
Seat #1[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Seat created by decree on 8 June 1998
- François-Bernard Michel (1936), elected in 2000
