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The Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 learned society
Learned society

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies, such as the Poland Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana , the Italian Acc...
. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France
Institut de France

The Institut de France is a France learned society, grouping five acad?mies, the most famous of which is probably the Acad?mie fran?aise....
.

It was created in 1795 as the merger of the:

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

members are grouped into seven sections:

number of members of the Painting section was reduced from 14 to 12 by the decree # 67-778 of 23 August 1967.






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The Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 learned society
Learned society

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies, such as the Poland Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana , the Italian Acc...
. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France
Institut de France

The Institut de France is a France learned society, grouping five acad?mies, the most famous of which is probably the Acad?mie fran?aise....
.

It was created in 1795 as the merger of the:
  • Académie de peinture et de sculpture
    Académie de peinture et de sculpture

    The Acad?mie royale de peinture et de sculpture , Paris, was founded in 1648, modelled on Italy examples, such as the Accademia di San Luca in Rome....
     (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648)
  • Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669)
  • Académie d'architecture
    Académie d'architecture

    The Acad?mie royale d'architecture was a French learned society founded on December 30, 1671 by Louis XIV of France, king of France under the impulsion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert....
     (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671)


Currently, the Académie des Beaux-Arts provides several awards including six dedicated prizes
  • Liliane Bettencourt
    Liliane Bettencourt

    Liliane Bettencourt is the principal shareholder of L'Or?al and the wealthiest woman in the world. She is the second richest person in France, behind Bernard Arnault whose wealth is estimated at United States dollar26.0 billion, and she ranks 17th in list of billionaires....
     Choral Singing Prize
  • Pierre David-Weill Drawing Prize
  • Pierre Cardin Prize
  • Nahed Ojjeh Prize
  • Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation
    Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation

    The Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation is a Foundation based in Paris, France. It was established in 1975 by Simone Del Duca , widow of publishing magnate Cino Del Duca ....
     Music Prize
  • Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Painting or Sculpture Prize


Members

The members are grouped into seven sections:
  • Section I: Painting
    Painting

    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
  • Section II: Sculpture
    Sculpture

    Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
  • Section III: Architecture
    Architecture

    The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
  • Section IV: Etching
    Etching

    Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal ....
  • Section V: Musical composition
    Musical composition

    Musical composition is:* an original piece of music* the musical form of a musical piece* the process of creating a new piece of music...
  • Section VI: Unattached members
  • Section VII: Artistic creation in the cinema
    Film

    Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
     and the audio-visual field (since 1985)
  • Section VIII: Photography (since 2005)


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
    Gerard van Spaendonck

    Gerard van Spaendonck was a Dutch Painting.Gerard was an older brother of Cornelis van Spaendonck , who was also a renowned artist. In the 1760s he studied with decorative painter Guillaume-Jacques Herreyns in Antwerp....
     (1746-1822), elected in 1795
  • Louis Hersent
    Louis Hersent

    Louis Hersent was a French Painting.Born in Paris, he became a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1797. In the Salon of 1802 appeared his "Metamorphosis of Narcissus," and he continued to exhibit with rare interruptions up to 1831....
     (1777-1860), elected in 1822
  • Emile Signol
    Émile Signol

    ?mile Signol was a France artist, born in Paris. Signol died in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise. Although he lived during the Romanticism period, his classical background kept him from succumbing to Impressionism or Romanticism....
     (1804-1892), elected in 1860
  • Luc-Olivier Merson
    Luc-Olivier Merson

    Luc-Olivier Merson was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs.Born Nicolas Luc-Olivier Merson in Paris, France, he grew up in an artistic household, the son of Charles-Olivier Merson, a painter and art critic....
     (1846-1920), elected in 1892
  • Paul Chabas (1869-1937), elected in 1921
  • Edouard Vuillard
    Édouard Vuillard

    Jean-?douard Vuillard was a France painting and printmaking associated with the Les Nabis....
     (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
  • Pierre Carron
    Pierre Carron

    Pierre Carron is a French sculpture and Painting.Born in F?camp, Normandy, France, he primarily studied drawing at the Ecole r?gionale des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre....
     (1932), elected in 1990


Seat #3
This seat has been suppressed in 1967.

  • Jean-Baptiste Regnault
    Jean-Baptiste Regnault

    Jean-Baptiste Regnault was a France Painting.Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M....
     (1754-1829), elected in 1795
  • François Heim (1787-1865), elected in 1829
  • Jean-Léon Gérôme
    Jean-Léon Gérôme

    Jean-L?on G?r?me was a France Painting and sculpture in the style now known as Academic painting. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax....
     (1824-1904), elected in 1865
  • Emile Carolus Duran (1838-1917), elected in 1904
  • Ernest Laurent
    Ernest Laurent

    Ernest Joseph Laurent was a French painter and printmaker. He was born in Gentilly and died in Bi?vre.Laurent was a neo-impressionist artist whose main influences were his instructor Ernest H?bert and his friend Georges Seurat....
     (1859-1929), elected in 1919
  • Henri Le Sidaner
    Henri Le Sidaner

    Henri Le Sidaner was an impressionist painter born to a French family in Port Louis, Mauritius. In 1870 he and his family settled in Dunkirk. Le Sidaner received most of his tutelage from the ?cole des Beaux-Arts under the instruction of Alexandre Cabanel but later broke away due to artistic differences....
     (1862-1939), elected in 1930
  • Jean Dupas
    Jean Dupas

    Jean Th?odore Dupas was a French painter, designer, poster artist, and decorator whose work is considered the utmost example of Art Nouveau and Art Deco visual arts....
     (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
    Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury

    Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury was a France Painting.Born in Cologne, he was sent by his family to Paris, and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Paris Salon in 1824; his reputation, however, was not established until three years later, when he exhibited Torquato Tasso at the Convent of Saint...
     (1797-1890), elected in 1850
  • François-Louis Français
    François-Louis Français

    Fran?ois Louis Fran?ais , French Painting, was born at Plombi?res-les-bains , and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller....
     (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
    Jules Joseph Lefebvre

    Jules Joseph Lefebvre was a France figure Painting.Lefebvre entered the ?cole nationale sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of L?on Cogniet....
     (1834-1911), elected in 1891
  • Paul-Albert Besnard
    Paul-Albert Besnard

    Paul-Albert Besnard was a France Painting....
     (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
    Merry-Joseph Blondel

    Merry-Joseph Blondel was a French neo-classic painter.After a first training in the Dilh et Guerhard porcelain factory, he later was a painting student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault....
     (1781-1853), elected in 1832
  • Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin
    Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin

    Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin was a French Roman Catholic Church Painting who was born in Lyon and spent much of his life in Paris, France and Rome, Italy....
     (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
    Georges Mathieu

    Georges Mathieu is a French painter in the style of Tachism....
     (1921), elected in 1975


Seat #7
  • François Menageot (1744-1816), elected in 1809
  • Etienne Garnier (1759-1849), elected in 1816
  • Léon Cogniet
    Léon Cogniet

    L?on Cogniet was a French painter.Cogniet was born in Paris. In 1812, he entered the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Gu?rin at the same time as Eug?ne Delacroix and Th?odore G?ricault....
     (1794-1880), elected in 1849
  • Léon Bonnat
    Léon Bonnat

    L?on Joseph Florentin Bonnat was a France Painting.He was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, Spain, where his father owned a bookshop....
     (1833-1922), elected in 1881
  • Jean-Louis Forain
    Jean-Louis Forain

    Jean-Louis Forain was a France Impressionism painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher.Forain was born in Reims, Marne but at age eight, his family moved to Paris....
     (1852-1931), elected in 1923
  • Maurice Denis
    Maurice Denis

    Maurice Denis was a French Painting and writer, and a member of the Symbolism and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art....
     (1870-1943), elected in 1932
  • Pierre-Paul Jouve (1878-1973), elected in 1945
  • Bernard Buffet
    Bernard Buffet

    Bernard Buffet was a France painter of Expressionism and Member of the Anti-Abstract Art Group "L 'homme T?moin"....
     (1928-1999), elected in 1974
  • Vladimir Velickovic
    Vladimir Velickovic

    Vladimir Velickovic is one of the most prominent Serbs painters. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Belgrade University. From 1963 to 1966, he was an assistant in Krsto Hegedu?ic?s Master workshop in Zagreb, Croatia, then in Yugoslavia, and in 1966 he moved to Paris....
     (1935), elected in 2005


Seat #8
  • François Gérard
    François Gerard

    Fran?ois Pascal Simon, Baron G?rard was a France painter born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador....
     (1770-1837), elected in 1812
  • Jean-Victor Schnetz
    Jean-Victor Schnetz

    Jean-Victor Schnetz was a French academic painter well-regarded for his historical and genre paintings.Schnez studied in Paris under Jacques-Louis David....
     (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
    Jean Bertholle

    Jean Bertholle was a French painter of the new Paris School.fr: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
    Jean Alaux

    Jean Alaux, called the Roman, was a French painter.A pupil of Pierre Lacour then of Pierre-Narcisse Gu?rin, he won the prix de Rome in 1815, and was a pensionary at the French Academy in Rome from 1816 to 1820 ....
     (1786-1864), elected in 1851
  • Henri Lehmann
    Henri Lehmann

    Henri Lehmann was a France historical and portrait Painting, born in Kiel, Schleswig. He was a pupil of his father, Leo Lehmann, and of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres in Paris, where he opened a studio in 1847, after having become naturalized....
     (1814-1882), elected in 1864
  • Gustave Boulanger
    Gustave Boulanger

    Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger was a French people figure painter. He was born at Paris, studied with Hippolyte Delaroche and Jollivet, and in 1849 took the Prix de Rome....
     (1824-1888), elected in 1882
  • Gustave Moreau
    Gustave Moreau

    Gustave Moreau was a France Symbolist painters whose main focus was the illustration of Bible and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolism writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement....
     (1826-1898), elected in 1888
  • Aimé Morot
    Aimé Morot

    Aim? Morot was a French painter.Morot attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and took the Prix de Rome in 1873. He was the son-in-law of Jean-L?on G?r?me....
     (1850-1913), elected in 1898
  • Henri Gervex
    Henri Gervex

    Henri Gervex was a France painter born in Paris, and studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel, Brisset and Eug?ne Fromentin.His early work belonged almost exclusively to the Mythology genre, which served as an excuse for the painting of the nude, but not always in the best of taste....
     (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
    Jacques-Louis David

    Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential France painter in the Neoclassicism style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, chiming with the moral climate of the final years of th...
     (1748-1825), elected in 1803
  • Aîné Jean le Barbier (1738-1826), elected in 1816
  • Horace Vernet
    Horace Vernet

    ?mile Jean-Horace Vernet was a French Painting of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects.Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet....
     (1789-1863), elected in 1826
  • Alexandre Cabanel
    Alexandre Cabanel

    Alexandre Cabanel was a France Painting.Cabanel was born in Montpellier, H?rault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style....
     (1823-1889), elected in 1863
  • Jean-Jacques Henner
    Jean-Jacques Henner

    Jean-Jacques Henner was a France Painting, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects, and portraits....
     (1829-1905), elected in 1889
  • Léon Lhermitte (1844-1925), elected in 1905
  • Emile Ménard (1862-1930), elected in 1926
  • Georges Desvallières
    Georges Desvallières

    Georges Desvalli?res was a France painter.A native of Paris, Desvalli?res was a great-grandson of academician Gabriel Legouv?, and received a religion upbringing....
     (1861-1950), elected in 1930
  • Jean Bouchaud (1891-1977), elected in 1951
  • Jean Carzou
    Jean Carzou

    Jean Carzou , born Garnik Zouloumian, was a French-Armenian artist. Jean arrived in Paris in 1924 to study architecture. He started working as a theater decorator but he then quickly realized he preferred drawing and painting....
     (1907-2000), elected in 1977
  • Zao Wou Ki
    Zao Wou Ki

    Zao Wou-Ki is a China-France Painting....
     (1921), elected in 2002


Seat #11
  • Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767-1824), elected in 1816
  • Charles Thévenin
    Charles Thévenin

    Charles Th?venin was a neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes from the time of the French Revolution and First French Empire....
     (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
    Raphaël Collin

    Rapha?l Collin was born and raised in Paris, where he became a prominent academic painter and in later life a professor at the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts....
     (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
    Jean-Paul Laurens

    Jean-Paul Laurens , was a France Painting and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic art style.Born in Fourquevaux, he was a pupil of L?on Cogniet and Alexandre Bida....
     (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
    Georges Wakhevitch

    Georges Wakh?vitch was an art director .He was raised in Paris, where he studied painting. He was an assistant to film director Lazare Meerson in the 1920s....
     (1907-1984), elected in 1982


Seat #13
  • Charles Meynier
    Charles Meynier

    Charles Meynier was a French painter. A student of Fran?ois-Andr? Vincent, Meynier won the second prize in the 1789 prix de Rome. He made designs for the bas-reliefs and statues on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and was from 1816 a member of the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France...
     (1768-1832), elected in 1816
  • Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), elected in 1832
  • Eugène Delacroix
    Eugène Delacroix

    Ferdinand Victor Eug?ne Delacroix was a France Romanticism artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school....
     (1798-1863), elected in 1857
  • Nicolas Hesse (1795-1869), elected in 1863
  • Jules Lenepveu (1819-1898), elected in 1869
  • Fernand Cormon
    Fernand Cormon

    Fernand Cormon was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eug?ne Fromentin, and Jean-Fran?ois Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France....
     (1845-1924), elected in 1898
  • Edgar Maxence
    Edgar Maxence

    Edgar Maxence , was a French Symbolist painter....
     (1871-1954), elected in 1924
  • Lucien Fontanarosa (1912-1975), elected in 1955
  • Hans Hartung
    Hans Hartung

    Hans Hartung was a Germans-French people painter, known for his gestural abstract art style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion....
     (1904-1989), elected in 1977
  • Jean Dewasne (1921-1999), elected in 1991
  • Yves Millecamps (1930), elected in 2001


Seat #14
This seat has been suppressed in 1967.

  • Carle Vernet (1758-1836), elected in 1816
  • François-Édouard Picot
    François-Édouard Picot

    Fran?ois-Edouard Picot was a French Painting during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects....
     (1786-1868), elected in 1836
  • Isidore Pils (1815-1875), elected in 1868
  • William Bouguereau
    William-Adolphe Bouguereau

    William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a France Academic art. Bouguereau was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classicism subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body....
     (1821-1905), elected in 1876
  • François Flameng
    François Flameng

    Fran?ois Flameng was a very successful French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. He was the son of a celebrated engraver and received a first-rate education in his craft....
     (1856-1923), elected in 1905
  • Emile Friant
    Émile Friant

    ?mile Friant was a French Painting.With a naturalist style Emile Friant painted quotidian scenes involving people. His creations are characterized by the photographic Realism of the human skin portions, and a less defined portrayal of the rest of the scene....
     (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
    Jean-Gabriel Domergue

    Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE was born on 4th march 1889 in Bordeaux ?Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE was born on March 4, 1889 in Bordeaux - Wire from Gabriel DOMERGUE, short story writer, critic art, then writer with ?Freedom? and ?the echo of Paris? Jean Gabriel is pupil with the College of Bordeaux, then in Paris with the Rollin College, it is impassion...
     (1889-1962), elected in 1950
  • Jean Lurçat
    Jean Lurçat

    Jean Lur?at was a French Painting and tapestry designer. A graduate of the Acad?mie Colarossi, he was known for his surrealist landscapes influenced from his travels in Spain and the Sahara....
     (1892-1966), elected in 1964


Section VI: Unattached members


Seat #1
  • Comte de Vaublanc (1756-1846), elected in 1816
  • Alphonse de Cailleux
    Alphonse de Cailleux

    Alphonse de Cailleux, in full Alexandre-Alphonse-Achille, vicomte de Cailloux was a painter, connoisseur and arts administrator who became director of the Mus?e du Louvre and all the royal museums of France....
     (1787-1876), elected in 1845
  • Emile Perrin (1815-1885), elected in 1876
  • Alphonse de Rothschild
    Alphonse James de Rothschild

    Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild , was a banker and philanthropist and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France.Known as Alphonse, he was the eldest son of James Mayer de Rothschild ....
     (1827-1905), elected in 1885
  • Paul Richer
    Paul Richer

    Paul Marie Louis Pierre Richer was a French anatomist, physiologist, sculptor and anatomical artist who was a native of Chartres. He was a professor of artistic anatomy at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as a member of the Acad?mie Nationale de M?decine ....
     (1849-1933), elected in 1905
  • David David-Weill (1871-1952), elected in 1934
  • Albert Sarraut
    Albert Sarraut

    Albert-Pierre Sarraut was a France Radical Party politician, twice List of Prime Ministers of France during the French Third Republic.Sarraut was born in Bordeaux, Gironde, France....
     (1872-1962), elected in 1953
  • Robert Rey
    Robert Rey

    Roberto Miguel Rey J?nior , best known as Robert Rey, is a Brazilian plastic surgery featured on the E! reality series Dr. 90210.He is in private practice in Beverly Hills and specializes in cosmetic surgery....
     (1888-1964), elected in 1964
  • André Arbus (1903-1969), elected in 1965
  • Pierre David-Weill
    Pierre David-Weill

    Pierre David-Weill was a France investment banker.Born Pierre Sylvain D?sir? G?rard David-Weill in Paris, France, he was the son of Flora Raphael and David David-Weill , Chairman of Lazard Fr?res....
     (1900-1975), elected in 1970
  • Germain Bazin (1901-1990), elected in 1975
  • Marcel Marceau
    Marcel Marceau

    Marcel Marceau was a French mime and actor....
     (1923-2007), elected in 1991
  • William Christie
    William Christie (musician)

    William Lincoln Christie is the founder and director of Les Arts Florissants .Christie studied art history at Harvard University and music at Yale University....
     (1944), elected in 2008


Seat #2
  • Pierre Blacas d'Aulps (1771-1839), elected in 1816
  • Aristide Dumont (1790-1853), elected in 1839
  • Alfred 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
    Joseph Hyacinth Francois de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil

    Joseph Hyacinth Francois de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil was a French nobleman at the court of King Louis XVI of France. He was the lover of Gabrielle de Polignac, the favourite of Marie Antoinette and over whom he exerted a powerful influence which enabled him to become the head of a dangerous cabal who sought to dominate the Queen...
     (1740-1817), elected in 1816
  • Duc de Richelieu
    Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu

    Armand Emmanuel Sophie Septemanie du Plessis, duc de Richelieu was a prominent France statesman during the Bourbon Restoration. As a Royalist aristocrat, during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, he served as a soldier in the military history of Imperial Russia....
     (1766-1822), elected in 1817
  • Jacques Lauriston
    Jacques Lauriston

    Jacques Alexandre Bernard Law, marquis de Lauriston , was a France soldier and diplomat of Scotland descent, the son of Jacques Fran?ois Law de Lauriston , a general officer in the French army, and was born at Puducherry, India....
     (1768-1828), elected in 1822
  • Joseph Siméon (1781-1846), elected in 1828
  • Charles Duchatel (1803-1867), elected in 1846
  • Henri Delaborde
    Henri Delaborde

    Henri Fran?ois Delaborde was a France general in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars....
     (1811-1899), elected in 1868
  • Jacques de Cardaillac (1818-1879), elected in 1874
  • Duc d'Aumale
    Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale

    Henri Eug?ne Philippe Louis d'Orl?ans, duc d'Aumale was born in Paris. He was the fifth and second youngest son of Louis-Philippe of France, King of the French and Duke of Orl?ans and Marie Amalie of Bourbon-Sicilies....
     (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
    Daniel Wildenstein

    Daniel Leopold Wildenstein was a major international art dealer and scholar, as well as a leading thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.Born in Verri?res-le-Buisson, France , Wildenstein inherited the responsibility in 1963 of running Wildenstein & Company, a five-generation family business founded in 1875 by Nathan 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
    Achille Fould

    Achille Fould was a France financier and politician.Born in Paris, the son of a successful Jewish banker, he was associated with and afterwards succeeded his father in the management of the business....
     (1800-1867), elected in 1857
  • Baron Haussmann
    Baron Haussmann

    Georges-Eug?ne Haussmann , who called himself Baron Haussmann, was a France civic planner whose name is associated with the Haussmann's renovation of Paris....
     (1809-1891), elected in 1867
  • Jean Alphand (1817-1891), elected in 1891
  • Georges Lafenestre (1837-1919), elected in 1892
  • Vicomte de Castelnau
    Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau

    No?l Marie Joseph ?douard, Vicomte de Curi?res de Castelnau was a French general in World War I, one of the leading proponents of the philosophy of attaque ? outrance that dominated French military thinking in the early part of the war....
     (1851-1944), elected in 1919
  • André Lemoisne (1875-1964), elected in 1945
  • Paul-Louis Weiller (1893-1993), elected in 1965
  • Maurice Béjart
    Maurice Béjart

    Maurice B?jart was a France and Switzerland choreographer who ran the B?jart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He was the son of the French philosopher Gaston Berger....
     (1927-2007), elected in 1994


Seat #5
  • Antoine Castellan (1772-1838), elected in 1816
  • Comte de Clarac
    Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac

    Charles Othon Fr?d?ric Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Clarac was a French artist, scholar and archaeologist....
     (1777-1847), elected in 1838
  • Baron Taylor
    Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor

    Baron Isidore Justin S?verin Taylor was a royal commissioner of the Th??tre-Fran?ais. He was responsible for editing Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France, a celebrated collection of lithographed drawings and paintings....
     (1789-1879), elected in 1847
  • Marquis de Chennevières (1820-1899), elected in 1879
  • Henri Roujon (1853-1914), elected in 1899
  • Georges Berger
    Georges Berger

    Georges Berger was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix.He initially competed during the 1950s in a Formula 2 BMW-engined Jicey with which he finished third in the Grand Prix des Frontieres at Chimay....
     (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
    Michel David-Weill

    Michel David-Weill is a France investment banker and former Chairman of New York City based Lazard Fr?res.He is the son of Berthe Haardt and Lazard Fr?res chairman Pierre 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
    Charles Blanc

    Charles Blanc was a France art critic, brother of Louis Blanc. After the February Revolution of 1848, he was director of the department for the visual arts at the ministry of the interior....
     (1813-1882), elected in 1868
  • Edmond du Sommerard (1817-1885), elected in 1882
  • Léon Heuzey
    Léon Heuzey

    L?on Heuzey was a noted French archaeologist and historian.In 1855 Heuzey came to Greece as a member of the ?cole fran?aise d'Ath?nes, and for the next two years travelled extensively in Macedonia and Akarnania....
     (1831-1922), elected in 1885
  • Paul Léon (1874-1962), elected in 1922
  • Georges Wildenstein (1892-1963), elected in 1963
  • René Dumesnil (1789-1967), 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
    Maurice Fenaille

    Maurice Fenaille was a French businessman and pioneer in the petroleum industry. He was also a major amateur art historian, collector and patron....
     (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
    Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte

    Napol?on Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Fran?ais, Count of Meudon, Count of Moncalieri ad personam was the second son of Jerome Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, by his wife Catharina of W?rttemberg....
     (1822-1891), elected in 1857
  • Louis Larroumet (1852-1903), elected in 1891
  • Comte de Delaborde (1811-1899), elected in 1898
  • Philippe Gille
    Philippe Gille

    Philippe Gille was a France dramatist and opera librettist. He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and L?o Delibes' Lakm?....
     (1830-1901), elected in 1899
  • Edouard Aynard (1837-1913), elected in 1901
  • Louis de Fourcaud (1851-1914), elected in 1913
  • André Michel
    André Michel

    Andr? Michel was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 15 films between 1947 in film and 1983 in film....
     (1853-1925), elected in 1918
  • Adolphe Boschot (1871-1955), elected in 1926
  • Henri Verne (1880-1949), elected in 1937
  • Jean Bourguignon
    Jean Bourguignon

    Jean-Jules Bourguignon was a Belgian inventor. Having left school at the age of 16, he had a variety of jobs while developing his inventing skills....
     (1876-1953), elected in 1949
  • Charles Kunstler (1887-1977), elected in 1954
  • Pierre Dux
    Pierre Dux

    Pierre Dux was a French actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1932 in film and 1990 in film....
     (1908-1990), elected in 1978
  • Pierre Cardin
    Pierre Cardin

    Pierre Cardin is an Italy-born France fashion designer, who was born on July 7, 1922, at San Biagio di Callalta near Treviso.Cardin was known for his avant-garde style and his space age designs....
     (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
    Marcel Carné

    Marcel Carn? was a French film director.Born in Paris, France, he began his career in silent film as a trainee with director Jacques Feyder. By age 25, Carn? had already directed his first film, one that marked the beginning of a successful collaboration with surrealist poet and screenwriter Jacques Pr?vert....
     (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
    Gaston Palewski

    Gaston Palewski , France politician, was a close associate of Charles de Gaulle during and after World War II. He is also remembered as the lover of the English novelist Nancy Mitford, and appears in a fictionalised form in two of her novels....
     (1901-1984), elected in 1968
  • Louis Pauwels
    Louis Pauwels

    Louis Pauwels was a France journalism and writer....
     (1920-1997), elected in 1985
  • Henri Loyrette
    Henri Loyrette

    Henri Loyrette was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. He became first curator and then director of the Mus?e d'Orsay in 1978 and 1994 respectively....
     (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
    André Bettencourt

    Andr? Bettencourt was a French politician. He had been awarded the Croix de Guerre, and is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He served as a cabinet minister under Pierre Mend?s-France and Charles de Gaulle, and was awarded for his bravery in the French Resistance against the Nazi Germany....
     (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
    École des Beaux-Arts

    ?cole des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the Rive Gauche in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6?me arrondissement, Paris....
  • Academic art
    Academic art

    Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academy or universities.Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Acad?mie des beaux-arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and the art that followed these two mo...
  • French art salons and academies
    French art salons and academies

    From the seventeenth century to the early part of the twentieth century, artistic production in France was controlled by artistic academies which organized official exhibitions called salons....


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