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)

1 Members
- 1.1 Section I
2 See also
3 External link

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 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