Académie des Beaux-Arts

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The Académie des beaux-arts (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 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)

Contents

1 Members

1.1 Section I

1.1.1 Seat #1
1.1.2 Seat #2
1.1.3 Seat #3
1.1.4 Seat #4
1.1.5 Seat #5
1.1.6 Seat #6
1.1.7 Seat #7
1.1.8 Seat #8
1.1.9 Seat #9
1.1.10 Seat #10
1.1.11 Seat #11
1.1.12 Seat #12
1.1.13 Seat #13
1.1.14 Seat #14

2 See also
3 External links

Members

The members are grouped seven 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

Section I

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

Seat #1

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 (1868-1840), 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 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

Seat #3

This seat has been suppressed 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

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 Lefèvre (1834-1912), elected in 1891
Paul 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
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

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

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
Georges Desvallières (1861-1950), elected in 1930
Jean Bouchaud (1891-1977), elected in 1951
Jean Carzou (1907-2000), elected in 1977
Wou-Ki Zao (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
Louis 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 Wakhevitch (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

Seat #14