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This article concerns the French government prize. For similarly named prizes aimed at other countries' nationals, see Prix de Rome (disambiguation)
Prix de Rome (disambiguation)

There are various prizes called "Prix de Rome"* Prix de Rome * Prix de Rome * Prix de Rome * Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome. The American Academy does not use the French term...
.


The Prix de Rome was a scholarship
Scholarship

A scholarship is an award of access to an institution, or a Student financial aid award for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award....
 for arts students. It was created in 1663 in France
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....
 under the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual burse for promising artists (painters, sculptors, and architects) who proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest.






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This article concerns the French government prize. For similarly named prizes aimed at other countries' nationals, see Prix de Rome (disambiguation)
Prix de Rome (disambiguation)

There are various prizes called "Prix de Rome"* Prix de Rome * Prix de Rome * Prix de Rome * Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome. The American Academy does not use the French term...
.


The Prix de Rome was a scholarship
Scholarship

A scholarship is an award of access to an institution, or a Student financial aid award for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award....
 for arts students. It was created in 1663 in France
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....
 under the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual burse for promising artists (painters, sculptors, and architects) who proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. The prize, organised by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture), was open to their students. The award winner would win a stay at the Palazzo Mancini
Palazzo Mancini

The Palazzo Mancini is a palazzo in Rome, Italy. From 1737 to 1793 it was the second home of the French Academy in Rome....
 in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 at the expense of the King of France. The stay could be extended if the director of the institution deemed it desirable.

Expanded after 140 years into five categories, the contest started in 1663 as three categories — 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....
, sculpting, and 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....
; in 1803, music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 was added; in 1804, engraving
Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass engraving are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustra...
 was added. The winner of the "First Grand Prize" (called the agréé) would be sent to The Academy of France in Rome
French Academy in Rome

The French Academy in Rome is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese gardens, on the Pincio in Rome, Italy....
 founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean-Baptiste Colbert served as the Controller-General of Finances from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of Louis XIV of France. He was described by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de S?vign? as "Le Nord", because he was cold and unemotional....
 in 1666. The "Second Prizes" were the runners up.

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....
, Edouard Manet
Édouard Manet

?douard Manet , 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883, was a French Painting. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from realism to Impressionism....
, Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas , was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist....
, Ernest Chausson
Ernest Chausson

Am?d?e-Ernest Chausson was a France Romantic music composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish....
 and Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
 attempted the Prix de Rome, but did not gain recognition. 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...
, having failed three years in a row, considered suicide. Ravel tried a total of five times to win the prize, and the last failed attempt in 1905 was so controversial that it led to a complete reorganization of the administration at the Paris Conservatory.

The Prix de Rome was suppressed in 1968 by André Malraux
André Malraux

Andr? Malraux was a France author, adventurer and statesman, and a dominant figure in French politics and culture....
, who was Minister of Culture at the time. Since then, a number of contests have been created, and the Academies, together with The Institute of France, were merged by the State and the Minister of Culture. Selected residents now have an opportunity for study during an 18-month (sometimes 2-year) stay at The Academy of France in Rome (presently accommodated in the Villa Médicis).

Winners in the Architecture Category


This is an incomplete list. From 1722 to 1786, a Grand Prix de Rome in architecture was awarded by the 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....
 - its first holder was Jean Michel Chevotet.

  • 1779 - Guy de Gisors
    Guy de Gisors

    Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste-Guy de Gisors was a French architect.His works include the ?glise de la Madeleine in Paris, and M?con Cathedral in M?con in 1816....
  • 1786 - Charles Percier
    Charles Percier

    Charles Percier was a Neoclassicism France architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in such close partnership with Pierre Fran?ois L?onard Fontaine , originally his friend from student days, from 1794 onwards, that it is fruitless to disentangle artistic responsibilities in their work....
  • 1805 - Auguste Guenepin
  • 1808 - Achille-François-René Leclère
    Achille-François-René Leclère

    Achille-Fran?ois-Ren? Lecl?re was a distinguished 19th century France architect and teacher of architecture.Achille Lecl?re studied architecture under Charles Percier and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand....
  • 1815 - Tilman-François Suys
    Tilman-François Suys

    Tilman-Fran?ois Suys or Tieleman Frans Suys , was a Belgian architect who also worked in the Netherlands.Suys completed his architectural education in Paris, where he studied under Charles Percier and won the Prix de Rome in 1812....
  • 1819 - Martin-Pierre Gauthier
  • 1821 - Guillaume-Abel Blouet
    Guillaume-Abel Blouet

    File:Blouet1831intro.jpg[Guillaume]-Abel Blouet was a French architect who specialised in prison design.He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1821 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, entitling him to five years' study at the French Academy in Rome....
  • 1823 - Félix Duban
    Félix Duban

    Jacques F?lix Duban was a French architect, the contemporary of Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Henri Labrouste.Duban won the Prix de Rome in 1823, the most prestigious award of the ?cole des Beaux-Arts....
  • 1824 - Henri Labrouste
    Henri Labrouste

    Henri Labrouste was a France architect from the famous Ecole des Beaux Arts school of architecture. After a six year stay in Rome, Labrouste opened an architectural training workshop, which quickly became the center of the Rationalist view....
  • 1826 - Léon Vaudoyer
    Léon Vaudoyer

    L?on Vaudoyer was a noted French architect. He was one of the "romantic" Beaux-Arts architecture influenced by Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte, along with his contemporaries F?lix Duban, Henri Labrouste, and Louis Duc....
  • 1833 - Victor Baltard
    Victor Baltard

    Victor Baltard , France architect, who was born in Paris, son of architect Louis Baltard.Until 1833, Baltard studied at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts, where he garnered the Prix de Rome for designing a military school in 1833....
  • 1837 - Jean-Baptiste Guenepin
  • 1839 - Hector Lefuel
    Hector Lefuel

    Hector-Martin Lefuel was a French historicist architect, whose most familiar work was the completion of the Palais du Louvre, including the reconstruction of the Pavillon de Flore after a disastrous fire....
  • 1840 - Théodore Ballu
  • 1847 - Louis Jules André
  • 1848 - Charles Garnier
    Charles Garnier (architect)

    Charles Garnier was a France architect, designer of the Op?ra Garnier and the Op?ra de Monte-Carlo....
  • 1850 - Victor Louvet
  • 1854 - Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer
  • 1855 - Honore Daumet
    Honoré Daumet

    Pierre J?r?me Honor? Daumet was a French architect.Daumet was the winner of the Prix de Rome in 1855, and in 1861 conducted a treasure-hunting expedition to Macedonia at the request of Napoleon III, accompanying the archaeologist L?on Heuzey....
  • 1861 - Constant Moyaux
  • 1864 - Julien Guadet
  • 1867 - Henri Jean Émile Bénard
  • 1870 - Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas
    Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas

    Albert-F?lix-Th?ophile Thomas was a France architect.Thomas was born in Marseilles, and was a student of Alexis Paccard and Leon Vaudoyer at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris....
  • 1878 - Victor Laloux
    Victor Laloux

    Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux was a France Beaux-Arts architecture architect best remembered for the 1900 stone fa?ade of the Paris Gare d'Orsay, now the Mus?e d'Orsay....
  • 1880 - Louis Girault
    Charles Girault

    File:Royalmuseumforcentralafrica2004.jpgCharles-Louis Girault was a France architect.Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he studied with Honor? Daumet at the ?cole nationale sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris....
  • 1880 - Jacques Hermant
    Jacques Hermant

    Jacques Hermant was a French architect.Hermant was one of the most renowned French architects of fin-de-si?cle Paris.He was a rationalist architect, but was a strong advocate for the neoromanticism style of the time, preferably the style of Louis XIII of France....
     - “Premier Second Grand Prize”
  • 1881 - Henri Deglane
    Henri Deglane

    Henri Deglane was a French sport wrestling, Olympic Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling....
  • 1886 - Albert Louvet - “Premier Second Grand Prize”
  • 1888 - Albert Tournaire
  • 1890 - Emmanuel Pontremoli
  • 1892 - Guillaume Tronchet
    Guillaume Tronchet

    Guillaume Tronchet was a French architect....
  • 1899 - Tony Garnier
    Tony Garnier (architect)

    Tony Garnier was a noted architect and city planner. He was most active in his hometown of Lyon.Garnier is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects....
  • 1902 - Henri Prost
  • 1912 - Jacques Debat-Ponsan
  • 1919 - Jacques Carlu
    Jacques Carlu

    Jacques Carlu was a France architect and designer, working mostly in Art Deco style, active in France, Canada, and in the United States.Through the 1910s Carlu studied on site with British city planner Thomas Hayton Mawson, Pittsburgh architects Henry Hornbostel, and in the Paris studios of Victor Laloux....
  • 1923 - Jean-Baptiste Mathon
  • 1927 - André Leconte
  • 1928 - Georges Dengler
  • 1929 - Jean Niermans
  • 1937 - Paul Jacques Grillo
  • 1938 - Henry Bernard
  • 1939 - Bernard Zehrfuss
    Bernard Zehrfuss

    Bernard Louis Zehrfuss was a France architect.Zehrfuss attended the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from the age of 18 and won its most prestigious award, the Prix de Rome in 1939....
  • 1945 - Jean Dubuisson
  • 1950 - Xavier Arsène-Henry - “Premier Second Grand Prize”
  • 1954 - Robert Venturi
    Robert Venturi

    Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. is an award-winning American architect and founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Robert Venturi and his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, are regarded among the most influential architects of the twentieth century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical w...
  • 1955 - Ngô Vi?t Th?
    Ngo Viet Thu

    Ng? Vi?t Th? was a Vietnamese architect, who designed the Independence Palace in Saigon.He won the First Grand Prize of Rome in 1955, the highest recognition of the Beaux-Arts school in Paris, and was then sponsored by the Academy of France to conduct research of architecture and urban planning at the Villa Medicis from 1955 to 1958....
  • 1956 - Michel Folliasson - “Premier Second Grand Prize”
  • 1966 - Bernard Schoebel
  • 1967 - Daniel Kahane


Winners in the Painting Category

  • 1663 - Pierre Monier
    Pierre Monier

    Pierre Monier was a French painter, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1663.Writings # Histoire des arts qui ont rapport au dessin ...
     (or Meunier)
  • 1673 - Louis de Boullogne le jeune
  • 1682 - Hyacinthe Rigaud
    Hyacinthe Rigaud

    File:Autoportrait au turban .jpgHyacinthe Rigaud was a France painter of Catalan people origin.He was born Jacint Rigau i Ros -- though in many encyclopaedias is "re-christened" with the name of H?acint Francesc Honrat Mathias Pere Martyr Andreu Joan Rigau -- in Perpignan, which became French a short time after his birth ....
  • 1688 - Daniel Sarrabat
  • 1699 - Pierre-Jacques Cazes
  • 1700 - Alexis Simon Belle
    Alexis Simon Belle

    Alexis Simon Belle was a French people portrait, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobitism nobility....
  • 1709 - Jean Antoine Watteau (dit Antoine Watteau) - "Second Grand Prize"
  • 1711 - François Lemoyne
    François Lemoyne

    Fran?ois Lemoyne or Fran?ois Le Moine was a French rococo painter.He was born in Paris. In 1701, when he was 13 years old, he entered the Acad?mie de peinture et de sculpture....
  • 1720 - François Boucher
    François Boucher

    Fran?ois Boucher was a France Painting, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture....
  • 1721 - Charles-Joseph Natoire
    Charles-Joseph Natoire

    Charles-Joseph Natoire was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of Fran?ois Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751-1775....
  • 1724 - Carle van Loo
  • 1727 - Pierre-Hubert Subleyras
  • 1734 - Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre
    Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

    Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre was a French painter, drawer and administrator....
  • 1736 - Noël Hallé
    Noël Hallé

    No?l Hall? was a France painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was born into a family of artists, the son of Claude-Guy Hall?.Hall? took the Prix de Rome in 1736....
  • 1738 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
    Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo

    Charles-Am?d?e-Philippe van Loo was a French painter of allegory scenes and portraits.He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, where in 1738 he won the Prix de Rome, then at Aix-en-Provence, before returning to Paris in 1745....
  • 1741 - Charles-Michel-Ange Challe
  • 1752 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
    Jean-Honoré Fragonard

    Jean-Honor? Fragonard was a France painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism....
  • 1756 - Hughes Taraval
  • 1758 - Jean-Bernard Restout
    Jean-Bernard Restout

    Jean-Bernard Restout was a French painter....
  • 1765 - Jean Bardin
  • 1766 - François-Guillaume Ménageot
    François-Guillaume Ménageot

    Fran?ois-Guillaume M?nageot , was a French painter of religious and French historical scenes. A pupil of Fran?ois Boucher , he went on to win the Grand Prix de Rome and become a director of the French Academy in Rome, an Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and a member of the Institute....
  • 1767 - Jean Simon Berthélemy
  • 1768 - François-André Vincent
    François-André Vincent

    Fran?ois-Andr? Vincent was a France neoclassicism painter.He was the son of the miniaturist Fran?ois-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien....
  • 1769 - Joseph Barthélémy Le Bouteux, Pierre Lacour - "Second Grand Prize"
  • 1770 - Gabriel Lemonnier
  • 1771 - Joseph-Benoît Suvée
    Joseph-Benoît Suvée

    Joseph-Beno?t Suv?e was a Belgian painter strongly influenced by French neo-classicism.Initially a pupil of Matthias de Visch, he came to France aged 19 and became a pupil of Jean-Jacques Bachelier....
  • 1772 - Pierre-Charles Jombert, Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier - "Second Grand Prize"
  • 1773 - Pierre Peyron
  • 1774 - 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...
  • 1775 - 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....
  • 1776 - Bénigne Gagneraux
  • 1778 - Charles-Édouard Chaise – “Second Prize”
  • 1780 - Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours
    Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours

    Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours was a Switzerland Painting.Jean-Pierre began studying with his father Jacques who was himself a renown painter. He continued his studies in Paris, in 1769, with Joseph-Marie Vien....
  • 1782 - Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet (dit Carle Vernet)
  • 1783 - François Gounod - "Second Grand Prize"
  • 1784 - Jean-Germain Drouais, Guillaume Guillon Lethière - "Second Grand Prize"
  • 1787 - François-Xavier Fabre
    François-Xavier Fabre

    Fran?ois-Xavier Fabre was a France painter of historical subjects.Born in Montpellier, Fabre was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and made his name by winning the Prix de Rome in 1787....
  • 1789 - Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
    Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

    Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson January 5, 1767 – December 9, 1824), was a France Painting and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who was part of the beginning of the Romantic movement by adding elements of eroticism through his paintings....
    , Guillaume Guillon Lethière - "Second Grand Prize"
  • 1790 - Jacques Réattu
    Jacques Réattu

    Jacques R?attu was a French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome. He was an illegitimate son of the painter Guillaume de Barr?me de Ch?teaufort and Catherine Raspal, sister of the Arles-born painter Antoine Raspal - Antoine gave him his first lessons in painting....
  • 1792 - Charles Paul Landon
    Charles Paul Landon

    Charles Paul Landon was a French Painting and popular writer on art and artists.He entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, where he made a lifelong friendship with Robert Lef?vre, and won the first prize of the Academy in 1792, for study at the French Academy in Rome....
  • 1797 - Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
    Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

    Pierre-Narcisse, baron Gu?rin , France Painting, was born in Paris.A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three grands prix offered in 1796, in consequence of the competition not having taken place since 1793....
    , Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet, Pierre Bouillon
  • 1798 - Fulchran-Jean Harriet
    Fulchran-Jean Harriet

    ]]Fulchran-Jean Harriet was a French painter....
  • 1800 - Jean-Pierre Granger
  • 1801 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
  • 1802 - Alexandre Menjaud
  • 1803 - 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....
  • 1804 - Joseph-Denis Odevaere
  • 1805 - Félix Boisselier
  • 1807 - François Joseph Heim
    François Joseph Heim

    Fran?ois Joseph Heim was a France Painting.He was born at Belfort. He early distinguished himself at the ?cole Centrale of Strassburg, and in 1803 entered the studio of Vincent at Paris....
  • 1808 - Alexandre-Charles Guillemot
  • 1809 - Jérôme-Martin Langlois
  • 1810 - Michel Martin Drölling
  • 1811 - Alexandre-Denis-Abel de Pujol
  • 1812 - Louis-Vincent-Léon Pallière
  • 1813 - François-Edouard Picot
    François-Édouard Picot

    Fran?ois-Edouard Picot was a French Painting during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects....
  • 1815 - 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 ....
     (dit le Romain)
  • 1816 - Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas
  • 1817 - 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....
    , Achille Etna Michallon - History
  • 1820 - Amable-Paul Coutan
  • 1821 - Joseph-Désiré Court, Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond
  • 1824 - Charles Philippe Larivière
  • 1825 - André Giroux
    André Giroux

    Andr? Giroux may refer to:*Andr? Giroux , nineteenth-century French painter and photographer*Andr? Giroux , twentieth-century Canadian writer and 1949 Montyon Prize winner...
  • 1830 - Émile 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....
  • 1831 - Henry-Frédéric-Schopin (or Chopin)
  • 1832 - Antoine Wiertz
    Antoine Wiertz

    Antoine Joseph Wiertz was a Belgium romanticism Painting and sculpture....
    , 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....
  • 1833 - Gabriel Prieur
  • 1834 - Paul Jourdy
  • 1836 - Dominique Papety
    Dominique Papety

    File:Hilariontemptation.jpgDominique Louis F?r?ol Papety was a French painter....
  • 1837 - Thomas Couture
    Thomas Couture

    Thomas Couture was an influential French history painter and teacher.He was born at Senlis, Oise Oise, France and at age 11, Thomas Couture's family moved to Paris where he would study at the industrial arts school and later at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts....
  • 1838 - Isidore Pils
  • 1839 - Ernest Hébert
    Ernest Hebert

    Ernest Hebert is an American author. He is best known for the Darby series, five novels written between 1979 and 1990, about modern life in a fictional New Hampshire town as it transitions from relative rural poverty to being more upscale, almost suburban....
  • 1840 - Pierre-Nicolas Brisset
  • 1842 - Victor Biennourry
  • 1844 - Félix-Joseph Barrias
  • 1845 - Jean-Achille Benouville
    Jean-Achille Benouville

    Jean-Achille Benouville was a French landscape painter of the academic painting school, known for his Italian landscapes. Fran?ois-L?on Benouville was his younger brother....
    , 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....
     - “Second Prix de Rome”
  • 1847 - Jules Eugène Lenepveu
    Jules Eugène Lenepveu

    Jules Eug?ne Lenepveu Boussaroque de Lafont, known as Jules Eug?ne Lenepveu was a French painter.Born at Angers, he studied at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts, and later he was a pupil of Fran?ois-?douard Picot in Paris....
  • 1848 - Joseph Stallaert; William-Adolphe 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....
     & 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....
     - “Second Prize”
  • 1849 - 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....
  • 1850 - William-Adolphe 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....
    , Paul Baudry
  • 1854 - Felix-Henri Giacomotti, Armand Bernard - “Second Prix de Rome”
  • 1857 - Charles Sellier
  • 1858 - 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....
  • 1861 - Léon Perrault, 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....
  • 1864 - Diogène-Ulysse-Napoléon Maillard
  • 1865 - Jules Machard, André Hennebicq, Gustave Huberti
  • 1866 - Henri Regnault
    Henri Regnault

    Alexandre-Georges-Henri Regnault was a France Painting....
     
  • 1868 - Édouard-Théophile Blanchard
    Édouard-Théophile Blanchard

    ?douard-Th?ophile Blanchard was a France Painting. He was a student of Fran?ois-?douard Picot and Alexandre Cabanel at the ?cole des Beaux Arts....
  • 1869 - 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....
  • 1871 - Edouard Toudouze
  • 1873 - 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....
  • 1874 - Paul-Albert Besnard
    Paul-Albert Besnard

    Paul-Albert Besnard was a France Painting....
  • 1875 - Léon Comerre, Jules Bastien-Lepage
    Jules Bastien-Lepage

    Jules Bastien-Lepage , France Painting, was born in the village of Damvillers, Meuse and spent his childhood there.He first studied at Verdun-sur-Meuse, and prompted by a love of art went in 1867 to Paris, where he was admitted to the ?cole nationale sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts, working under Alexandre Cabanel....
     - “Second Prize”
  • 1876 - Joseph Wencker
  • 1880 - Henri Lucien Doucet
    Henri Lucien Doucet

    Henri Lucien Doucet was a French people figure and portrait painter, born in Paris, where he studied under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger, and in 1880 won the Prix de Rome....
  • 1881 - Louis-Edouard-Paul Fournier
  • 1883 - André Marcel Baschet, Émile 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....
     - “Second Prize”
  • 1884 - Edouard Cabane - "Second Prize"
  • 1889 - 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....
  • 1891 - Adolphe Déchenaud - “Second Grand Prize”, Hubert-Denis Etcheverry - “Second Prize”
  • 1894 - Adolphe Déchenaud
  • 1898 - Jean-Amédée Gibert, 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....
  • 1905 - Albert Henry Krehbiel
    Albert Henry Krehbiel

    Albert Henry Krehbiel was an American impressionist painter....
  • 1907 - Louis Léon Eugène Billotey, Émile Aubry
  • 1908 - Jean Lefeuvre
  • 1910 - 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....
  • 1911 - 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...
  • 1912 - Gabriel Girodon
  • 1913 - Robert Davaux
  • 1914 - Victor-Julien Giraud, Jean Despujols
  • 1919 - Louis-Pierre Rigal
  • 1921 - Constantin Font
  • 1922 - Pierre-Henri Ducos de La Haille
  • 1923 - Pierre Dionisi
  • 1924 - René-Marie Castaing
  • 1925 - Odette Pauvert - First "First Grand Prize" obtained by a woman
  • 1928 - Nicolas Untersteller
  • 1930 - Yves Brayer, Salvatore DeMaio
  • 1934 - Pierre-Emile-Henri Jérôme
  • 1936 - Lucien Fontanarosa & Jean Pinet - “Premier Grand Prize”; Roger Bezombes
  • 1941 - Piet Schoenmakers
  • 1942 - Pierre-Yves Trémois
    Pierre-Yves Trémois

    Pierre-Yves Tr?mois is a French visual artist and sculptor. He is known for evocative works drawing in equal proportions on surrealism and science illustration, and for combining graphic precision and rigor with flamboyant fantasy....
     – “Premier Grand Prize”
  • 1946 - José Fabri-Canti
  • 1947 - Louis Vuillermoz - “Premier Second Grand Prize”
  • 1948 - John Heliker
  • 1950 - Paul Collomb - “Premier Second Grand Prize”
  • 1951 - Daniel Sénélar - “Premier Grand Prize”
  • 1953 - Pierick Houdy
  • 1955 - Paul Ambille
  • 1960 - 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....
  • 1962 - Freddy Tiffou
  • 1965 - Jean-Marc Lange
  • 1966 - Gérard Barthélemy
  • 1967 - Thierry Vaubourgoin - “Second Grand Prize”
  • 1968 - Michel Niel Froment


Winners in the Sculpture Category

  • 1673 - Jean Cornu
  • 1680 - Jean Joly
  • 1682 - Nicolas Coustou
    Nicolas Coustou

    Nicolas Coustou was a France sculpture and academic.He was the son of a woodcarver, who gave him his first instruction in art. At eighteen he moved to Paris, to study under Antoine Coysevox, his mother's brother, who presided over the recently-established Acad?mie royale de peinture et de sculpture; and at twenty-three he gained the Jean-...
  • 1686 - Pierre Legros
  • 1689 - Robert Le Lorrain
    Robert Le Lorrain

    Robert Le Lorrain was a French baroque sculptor who was born in Paris. He was born into a family of bureaucrats, the son of Claude Le Lorrain, a business agent of Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV of France Minister of Finance....
  • 1694 - René Frémin
  • 1722 - Edmé Bouchardon
    Edmé Bouchardon

    Edm? Bouchardon was a France sculpture, esteemed in his day as the greatest sculptor of his time.Born at Chaumont, he became the pupil of Guillaume Coustou and gained the prix de Rome in 1722....
  • 1725 - Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne
  • 1739 - Louis-Claude Vassé
  • 1748 - Augustin Pajou
  • 1754 - Charles-Antoine Bridan
  • 1757 - Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois
  • 1758 - Félix Lecomte
    Felix Lecomte

    F?lix Lecomte was a French sculptor in the second half of the Eighteenth Century.In 1758 he won the Prix de Rome scholarship in sculpture and attended class in Rome from 1761 to 1768....
  • 1761 - Jean-Antoine Houdon
    Jean-Antoine Houdon

    Jean-Antoine Houdon was a France neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Age of Enlightenment....
  • 1762 - Louis-Simon Boizot
    Louis-Simon Boizot

    Louis-Simon Boizot was a French sculptor whose models for biscuit figures for S?vres porcelain are better-known than his large-scale sculptures....
  • 1765 - Pierre Julien
    Pierre Julien

    Pierre Julien was a French sculptor who worked in a full range of rococo and Neoclassicism.He served an early apprenticeship at Le Puy, near his natal village of Saint-Paulien, then at the ?cole de dessin of Lyon, then entered the Parisian atelier of Guillaume Coustou the Younger....
  • 1772 - François-Nicolas Delaistre
    François-Nicolas Delaistre

    Fran?ois-Nicolas Delaistre was a France sculptor.He was educated by F?lix Lecomte and Louis-Claude Vass?. Delaistre won the Prix de Rome in 1772; he studied a year at the Ecole Royale des El?ves Prot?g?s at the French Academy and later at the French Academy in Rome between 1773 and 1777....
  • 1779 - Louis-Pierre Deseine
    Louis-Pierre Deseine

    Louis-Pierre Deseine was a French sculptor, who was born and died in Paris. He is known above all for his portrait busts and imaginary portraits....
  • 1784 - Antoine-Denis Chaudet
    Antoine-Denis Chaudet

    Antoine-Denis Chaudet was a France Sculpture who worked in a Neoclassicism....
  • 1788 - Jacques-Edme Dumont
    Jacques-Edme Dumont

    Jacques-Edme Dumont was a French sculpture.Dumont came from a large dynasty of sculptors that included his grandfather Pierre Dumont and children Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc....
  • 1790 - François-Frédéric Lemot
    François-Frédéric Lemot

    Fran?ois-Fr?d?ric Lemot was a French sculptor, working in the Neoclassicism.At the age of seventeen he entered the atelier of Claude Dejoux, a minor Neoclassical sculptor who had trained with Guillaume Coustou the Younger....
  • 1801 - Joseph-Charles Marin & François-Dominique-Aimé Milhomme
  • 1806 - Pierre-François-Grégoire Giraud
  • 1809 - Henri-Joseph Ruxthiel
  • 1811 - David d'Angers
  • 1812 - François Rude
    François Rude

    Fran?ois Rude was a France sculpture.Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from Fran?ois Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable ingredient in the plastic arts In 1809 he went to Paris from the Dijon school of art, and...
  • 1813 - Jean-Jacques Pradier
    James Pradier

    James Pradier, also known as Jean-Jacques Pradier was a Switzerland-born France sculpture best known for his work in the neoclassicism style....
     (dit James Pradier)
  • 1815 - Étienne-Jules Ramey
    Etienne-Jules Ramey

    Etienne-Jules Ramey was a French sculptor.The pupil of his father, Claude Ramey , he trained in the studio of Pierre Cartellier, won the Prix de Rome, with the subject Ulysses recognized by his dog, and collaborated with David d'Angers on the sculptures for the triumphal arch at Marseille, the Porte d'Aix, 1828 to 1839....
  • 1817 - Charles-François Lebœuf
    Charles-François Lebœuf

    Charles-Fran?ois Leb?uf, called Nanteuil was a French sculptor. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in Sculpture in 1817 with a gypsum figure of Agis I, dying by his own arms....
     (dit Nanteuil)
  • 1818 - Bernard-Gabriel Seurre (dit Seurre Aîné)
  • 1819 - Abel Dimier
  • 1820 - Georges Jacquot
  • 1821 - Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire
    Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire

    [Philippe Joseph] Henri Lemaire was a France sculptor, working in a Neoclassicism. He was a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, and won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1821....
  • 1823 - Augustin-Alexandre Dumont & Francisque-Joseph Duret
  • 1824 - Charles-Marie-Émile Seurre (dit Seurre jeune)
  • 1826 - Louis Desprez
    Louis Desprez

    Louis Desprez was a France sculptor.Born in Paris, he was a pupil of Francois Joseph Bosio. He went to Rome after winning the Prix de Rome for Sculpture in 1826....
  • 1827 - Jean-Louis-Nicolas Jaley & François-Gaspard-Aimé Lanno
  • 1828 - Antoine Laurent Dantan
    Antoine Laurent Dantan

    Antoine Laurent Dantan 1798 - 1878 was a France academic sculpture. He won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1828. He is often confused with his younger brother Jean-Pierre Dantan, also a sculptor....
     (dit Dantan l'Aîné)
  • 1829 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Debay (dit Debay fils)
  • 1830 - Honoré-Jean-Aristide Husson
  • 1832 - François Jouffroy
    François Jouffroy

    Fran?ois Jouffroy was a French sculptor.Jouffroy was born in Dijon, the son of a baker, and attended the local drawing school before being admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1824....
     & Jean-Louis Brian
  • 1833 - Pierre-Charles Simart
  • 1836 - Jean-Marie Bonnassieux
    Jean-Marie Bonnassieux

    Jean-Marie Bienaim? Bonnassieux was a France sculptor.The son of a cabinet maker from Lyon, Bonnassieux showed talent as a boy and was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Augustin-Alexandre Dumont....
     & Auguste-Louis-Marie Ottin
  • 1837 - Louis-Léopold Chambard
  • 1838 - Nicolas-Victor Vilain
  • 1839 - Théodore-Charles Gruyère
  • 1841 - Georges Diebolt
    Georges Diebolt

    Georges Diebolt, sometimes spelled Di?bolt, was a France sculptor best known for his publicly-commissioned monumental works, including the Zouave and Grenadier on the pont de l'Alma in Paris and the Maritime Victory on the Pont des Invalides....
     & Charles-Joseph Godde
  • 1842 - Jules Cavelier
  • 1843 - René-Ambroise Maréchal
  • 1844 - Eugène-Louis Lequesne
  • 1845 - Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
    Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume

    Jean-Baptiste Claude Eug?ne Guillaume was a France sculpture....
  • 1847 - Jacques-Léonard Maillet
    Jacques-Léonard Maillet

    Jacques-L?onard Maillet was a France academic sculptor of modest reputation, whose themes were of neoclassical and biblical inspiration; his public commissions were in large part for the programs of decorative architectural sculpture required by the grandiose public works programs characteristic of the French Second Empire, which included c...
     & Jean-Joseph Perraud
    Jean-Joseph Perraud

    Jean-Joseph Perraud was a France academic sculptor. According to Eaton, "During the Second Empire no sculptor enjoyed a greater reputation," although his style fell out of fashion soon after his death....
  • 1848 - Gabriel-Jules Thomas
  • 1849 - Louis Roguet
  • 1850 - Charles-Alphonse-Achille Gumery
    Charles Gumery

    Charles-Alphonse-Achille Gumery was an academic France sculptor, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1850, and one of the most famous sculptors of the Second Empire....
  • 1851 - Gustave Adolphe Désiré Crauk
  • 1852 - Alfred-Adolphe-Édouard Lepère
  • 1854 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
    Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

    Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a France sculptor and Painting.Born in Valenciennes, son of a mason, his early studies were under Fran?ois Rude. Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Donatello and Andrea d...
  • 1855 - Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu & Amédée-Donatien Doublemard
  • 1856 - Henri-Charles Maniglier
  • 1857 - Joseph Tournois
  • 1859 - Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière
    Alexandre Falguière

    Jean Alexandre Joseph Falgui?re was a France sculpture and painting.He was born in Toulouse. A pupil of the ?cole des Beaux-Arts, he won the Prix de Rome in 1859; he was awarded the medal of honor at the Paris Salon in 1868 and was appointed officer of the L?gion d'honneur in 1878....
     & Louis-Léon Cugnot
  • 1860 - Barthélemy Raymond
  • 1861 - Justin-Chrysostome Sanson
  • 1862 - Ernest-Eugène Hiolle
    Ernest-Eugène Hiolle

    Ernest-Eug?ne Hiolle was a France sculptor who specialized in classical and Allegory figures in plaster and bronze, as well as many contemporary portrait Bust ....
  • 1863 - Charles-Arthur Bourgeois
  • 1864 - Eugène Delaplanche
    Eugène Delaplanche

    Eug?ne Delaplanche was a French people sculptor, born at Belleville ....
     & Jean-Baptiste Deschamps
  • 1865 - Louis-Ernest Barrias
    Louis-Ernest Barrias

    Louis-Ernest Barrias was a France sculptor of the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts.He was born in Paris into a family of artists. His father was a porcelain-painter, and his older brother F?lix-Joseph Barrias a well-known painter....
  • 1868 - Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié & Edme-Antony-Paul Noël (dit Tony Noël)
  • 1869 - André-Joseph Allar
  • 1870 - Jules-Isidore Lafrance
  • 1871 - Laurent-Honoré Marqueste
  • 1872 - Jules Coutan
  • 1873 - Jean-Antoine-Marie Idrac
  • 1874 - Jean-Antoine Injalbert
  • 1875 - Jean-Baptiste Hugues
  • 1876 - Alfred-Désiré Lanson
  • 1877 - Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier
  • 1878 - Edmond Grasset
  • 1879 - Léon Fagel
    Léon Fagel

    L?on Fagel was a France sculptor, best known for his busts.Fagel was born in Valenciennes, won the second Prix de Rome in 1875, and the Prix de Rome in 1879....
  • 1880 - Émile-Edmond Peynot
  • 1881 - Jacques-Théodore-Dominique Labatut
  • 1882 - Désiré-Maurice Ferrary
  • 1883 - Henri-Édouard Lombard
  • 1884 - Denys Puech
    Denys Puech

    Denys Puech was a French sculptor....
  • 1885 - Joseph-Antoine Gardet
  • 1886 - Paul-Gabriel Capellaro
  • 1887 - Edgar-Henri Boutry
  • 1888 - Louis-J. Convers
  • 1889 - Jean-Charles Desvergnes
  • 1890 - Paul-Jean-Baptiste Gasq
  • 1891 - François-Léon Sicard
    François-Léon Sicard

    Fran?ois-L?on Sicard is considered one of the more talented yet most elusive sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th century. His credits include work on the adornments of the Louvre, and numerous sculptures around the world....
  • 1892 - Hippolyte-Jules Lefebvre
  • 1893 - Aimé-Jérémie-Delphin Octobre
  • 1894 - Constant-Ambroise Roux
  • 1895 - Hippolyte-Paul-René Roussel (dit Paul-Roussel)
  • 1896 - Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Champeil
  • 1897 - Victor Segoffin
  • 1898 - Camille Alaphilippe
  • 1899 - André-César Vermare
  • 1900 - Paul-Maximilien Landowski
    Paul Landowski

    Paul Maximilien Landowski was a France monumental sculptor of Poles ancestry.He was born in Paris to refugees of the Polish January Uprising, and died in Boulogne-Billancourt....
  • 1901 - Henri Bouchard
    Henri Bouchard

    Henri Bouchard was a French sculptor.The son of a carpenter, Bouchard was educated at the Acad?mie Julian and in the studio of Louis-Ernest Barrias before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris....
  • 1906 - François-Maurice Roganeau
  • 1909 - Felix Benneteau-Desgrois
  • 1911 - Lucienne Heuvelmans
    Lucienne Heuvelmans

    Lucienne Heuvelmans was a France sculptor and illustrator.Heuvelmans studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Laurent Marqueste and Denys Puech. In 1911 she became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome....
  • 1913 - Gilbert Ledward
  • 1914 - Charles Sargeant Jagger
    Charles Sargeant Jagger

    Charles Sargeant Jagger Military Cross was a British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war....
  • 1919 - Alfred Janniot
    Alfred Janniot

    Alfred Auguste Janniot was a France sculptor most active in the 1930s.Janniot was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, a pupil of Jean Antoine Injalbert, and was the winner of the 1919 Prix de Rome....
     - Premier prize, Raymond Delamarre - Premier prize ex aequo et bono, César Schroevens - Third Prize
  • 1932 - Henri Lagriffoul
  • 1934 - Albert Bouquillon
  • 1935 - Claude Bouscau Premier grand prix de Rome, Alphonse Darville
  • 1936 - André Greck
  • 1937 - Raymond Granville Barger
  • 1939 - René Leleu
  • 1944 - Francis Pellerin
  • 1947 - Léon Bosramiez
  • 1949 - Jean Lorquin
  • 1950 - Maurice Calka
    Maurice Calka

    Maurice Calka was a French sculptor and designer who won the Prix de Rome, and during his lifetime two of his pieces of work achieved worldwide renown....
    , Roland Guillaumel
  • 1954 - Jacqueline Bechet-Ferber
  • 1955 - Kenneth Ford
    Ken Ford

    Kenneth Ford is a British sculptor, is a former Prix de Rome winner for Sculpture, in 1955. He previously studied at the Royal College of Art under Frank Dobson ....
  • 1956 - Claude Goutin
  • 1959 - Georges Jeanclos
  • 1968 - Daniel Druet


Winners in the Engraving Category

The engravery prize was created in 1804 and suppressed in 1968 by André Malraux
André Malraux

Andr? Malraux was a France author, adventurer and statesman, and a dominant figure in French politics and culture....
, the minister of Culture.
  • 1864 - Jules-Clément Chaplain
    Jules-Clément Chaplain

    Jules-Cl?ment Chaplain was a France sculptor and one of its finest medallists. With Louis Oscar Roty he helped found the Art Nouveau movement....
  • 1906 - Henry Cheffer
  • 1910 - Jules Piel
  • 1911 - Albert Decaris
  • 1920 - Pierre Matossy
  • 1921 - Pierre Gandon
    Pierre Gandon

    Pierre Gandon was a French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps. He was born January 20 1899 in L'Ha?-les-Roses and died July 23 1990....
  • 1952 - Claude Durrens


Winners in the Musical Composition Category

  • 1803 - Albert Androt
  • 1804 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1805 - Victor Dourlen ("first" First Grand Prize) and Ferdinand Gasse ("second" First Grand Prize)
  • 1806 - Guillaume Bouteiller("first" First Grand Prize) and Gustave Dugazon ("second" First Grand Prize)
  • 1807 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1808 - Pierre-Auguste-Louis Blondeau
  • 1809 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul and Jean Vidal
  • 1810 - Désiré Beaulieu
  • 1811 - Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard
    Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard

    Hippolyte Andr? Jean Baptiste Ch?lard was a French composer, violist, and conductor of the Classical era.He was born in Paris and studied composition with Gosset and viola with Kreutzer....
  • 1812 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold ("first" First Grand Prize) and Félix Cazot ("second" First Grand Prize)
  • 1813 - Auguste Mathieu Panseron
  • 1814 - Pierre-Gaspard Roll
  • 1815 - François Benoist
    François Benoist

    Fran?ois Benoist, , was a France composer and organist....
  • 1816 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1817 - Désiré-Alexandre Batton
  • 1818 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1819 - Fromental Halévy
    Fromental Halévy

    Jacques-Fran?ois-Fromental-?lie Hal?vy was a France composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive....
     ("first" First Grand Prize) and Jean Massin dit Turina ("second" First Grand Prize)
  • 1820 - Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne
  • 1821 - Victor Rifaut
  • 1822 - Joseph-Auguste Lebourgeois and Hyppolyte de Fontmichel
  • 1823 - Edouard Boilly and Louis Ermel
  • 1824 - Auguste Barbereau
  • 1825 - Albert Guillion
  • 1826 - Claude Paris and Emile Bienaimé
  • 1827 - Jean-Baptiste Guiraud
  • 1828 - Guillaume Ross dit Despréaux
  • 1829 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1830 - Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
     ("first" First Grand Prize) and Alexandre Montfort ("second" First Grand Prize)
  • 1831 - Eugène-Prosper Prévost
  • 1832 - Ambroise Thomas
    Ambroise Thomas

    Ambroise Thomas was a France opera composer, best-known for his operas Mignon and Hamlet and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871-1896....
  • 1833 - Alphonse Thys (1807-1879)
  • 1834 - Antoine Elwart and Hippolyte Colet
  • 1835 - Ernest Boulanger (1815–1900)
  • 1836 - Xavier Boisselot (1811 - 1893)
  • 1837 - Louis Désiré Besozzi
  • 1838 - Georges Bousquet; Edme Deldevez; and Charles Dancla
    Charles Dancla

    Jean Baptiste Charles Dancla was a French violinist and composer....
  • 1839 - Charles Gounod
    Charles Gounod

    Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
  • 1840 - François Bazin
    François Bazin

    Fran?ois Emmanuel Joseph Bazin was a France opera composer....
     and Edouard Batiste
  • 1841 - Aimé Maillart
    Aimé Maillart

    Louis-Aim? Maillart was a France composer, best known for his operas, particularly Les Dragons de Villars and Lara....
    ; Théodore Mozin; and Alexis de Garaudé
  • 1842 - Alexis Roger (1814-1846)
  • 1843 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1844 - Victor Massé
    Victor Massé

    Victor Mass?...
      (1822-1884)
  • 1845 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1846 - Léon Gastinel
    Léon Gastinel

    L?on Gastinel was a France composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Jacques Hal?vy and was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1846 for his cantata Valasquez....
  • 1847 - Pierre-Louis Deffès
  • 1848 - Jules Duprato
  • 1849 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1850 - Joseph Charlot
  • 1851 - Jean-Charles-Alfred Deléhelle
  • 1852 - Léonce Cohen
  • 1853 - Pierre-Christophe-Charles Galibert
  • 1854 - Adrien Grat-Nobert Barthe
  • 1855 - Jean Conte
  • 1856 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1857 - Georges Bizet
    Georges Bizet

    Georges Bizet was a France composer and pianist of the Romantic music era. He is best known for the opera Carmen....
  • 1858 - Samuel David
  • 1859 - Ernest Guiraud
    Ernest Guiraud

    Ernest Guiraud was a France composer and music teacher born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Georges Bizet opera Carmen and for Jacques Offenbach opera Les contes d'Hoffmann ....
  • 1860 - Émile Paladilhe
    Emile Paladilhe

    ?mile Paladilhe was a France composer of the late Romantic music period....
  • 1861 - Théodore Dubois
    Théodore Dubois

    Fran?ois-Cl?ment Th?odore Dubois was a French composer, organist and music teacher....
  • 1862 - Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray
    Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray

    Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray was a Breton people composer and professor. He was born at Nantes and died at Vernouillet, near Paris. He studied law before switching to music at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas and obtained the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1862 with his suite, "Journey to Paris." He served in the Franco-Prussi...
  • 1863 - Jules Massenet
    Jules Massenet

    Jules Massenet was a France composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era....
  • 1864 - Victor Sieg
  • 1865 - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu
  • 1866 - Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard (1843-1917)
  • 1867 - no prize awarded
  • 1868 - Alfred Pelletier-Rabuteau and Eugène Wintzweiller
  • 1869 - Antoine Taudou
  • 1870 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre and Henri Maréchal
  • 1871 - Gaston Serpette
  • 1872 - Gaston Salvayre
  • 1873 - Paul Puget
  • 1874 - Léon Erhart
  • 1875 - André Wormser
  • 1876 - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher
  • 1877 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1878 - Clément Broutin
  • 1879 - Georges Hüe
    Georges Hüe

    Georges Adolphe H?e was a French people composer of european classical music....
  • 1880 - Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher
  • 1881 - no Grand Prize awarded
  • 1882 - Georges Marty
  • 1883 - Paul Vidal
    Paul Vidal

    Paul Antoine Vidal was a France composer, conducting and music teacher.Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse. He studied at the conservatoires in Toulouse and in Paris Conservatoire, under Jules Massenet in the latter....
  • 1884 - Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
  • 1885 - Xavier Leroux
    Xavier Leroux

    Xavier Henry Napole?n Leroux was a France composer.Leroux was the son of a military bandleader. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Jules Massenet and Theodore Dubois, and won the Prix de Rome in 1885 with the cantata Endymion....
  • 1886 - André Gedalge
    André Gedalge

    Andr? Gedalge , was an influential France composer and teacher....
     - "Second Prize"
  • 1887 - Gustave Charpentier
    Gustave Charpentier

    Gustave Charpentier was a France composer, best known for his opera Louise .He was born in Dieuze, the son of a baker, and after studying at the conservatoire in Lille entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1881....
  • 1891 - Paul-Henri-Joseph Lebrun
    Paul-Henri-Joseph Lebrun

    Composer Paul-Henri-Joseph Lebrunwas a Belgium composer and professor at the Ghent College or university school of music, who won the Prix de Rome for music in 1891....
     (1861-1920)
  • 1894 - Henri Rabaud
    Henri Rabaud

    Henri Rabaud was a France Conducting and composer.Rabaud was born in Paris, France, the son of cello and a singer, Hippolyte Rabaud , who was a professor of cello at the Paris Conservatory....
  • 1899 - François Rasse
  • 1900 - Florent Schmitt
    Florent Schmitt

    Florent Schmitt was a France composer. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1889, studying under Albert Lavignac, Theodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, Gustave Sandre, and Gabriel Faur?....
  • 1901 - André Caplet
    André Caplet

    Andr? Caplet was a France composer and conducting now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy....
     (against Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    , 3rd Prize)
  • 1901 - Gabriel Dupont - "Second Prize"
  • 1902 - Aymé Kunc
  • 1902 - Jean Roger-Ducasse
    Jean Roger-Ducasse

    Jean Jules Amable Roger-Ducasse was a France composer....
     - "Second Prize"
  • 1902 - Albert Bertelin - "Third Prize"
  • 1903 - Raoul Laparra
  • 1904 - Raymond-Jean Pech
  • 1904 - Paul Pierné
    Paul Pierné

    Paul Piern? was a France composer and organ .Born in Metz, he was a cousin of composer and organist Gabriel Piern?. His first musical lessons were from his father Charles, himself a former student of C?sar Franck....
     - "Second Prize"
  • 1904 - Hélène Fleury-Roy - "Third Prize"
  • 1905 - Victor Gallois
  • 1905 - Marcel Samuel-Rousseau
    Marcel Samuel-Rousseau

    Marcel Samuel-Rousseau was a France composer, organist, and opera director. He studied compostion at the Paris Conservatoire and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1905....
     - "Second Prize"
  • 1905 - Philippe Gaubert
    Philippe Gaubert

    Philippe Gaubert was a French people musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute, a respected conducting, and a composer, primarily for the flute....
     - "Third Prize"
  • 1906 - Louis Dumas
  • 1907 - Maurice Le Boucher
    Maurice Le Boucher

    Maurice Georges Eug?ne Le Boucher , was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.Le Boucher was born in Isigny-sur-Mer. In 1904, he entered the Paris Conservatory, where he was a student of Gabriel Faur?....
  • 1908 - André Gailhard
  • 1908 - Louis Dumas
  • 1908 - Nadia Boulanger
    Nadia Boulanger

    Nadia Boulanger was an influential French composer, conducting, and music professor. An outstanding music educator at the highest level, she taught many of the most important composers and conductors of the 20th century....
     - "Second Prize"
  • 1908 - Édouard Flament
  • 1909 - Jules Mazellier
  • 1909 - Marcel Tournier
    Marcel Tournier

    Marcel Lucien Tournier was a France harpist, composer, and pedagogue who composed important solo repertory for the harp that expanded the technical and harmonic possibilities of the instrument....
     - "Second Prize"
  • 1913 - Lili Boulanger
    Lili Boulanger

    Lili Boulanger was a France composer, the younger sister of the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.A child prodigy, Boulanger's talent was apparent even at the age of two, spotted by her parents, both of whom were musicians themselves and encouraged their daughter's musical education....
  • 1914 - Marcel Dupré
    Marcel Dupré

    Marcel Dupr? , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue....
  • 1919 - Jacques Ibert
    Jacques Ibert

    Jacques Fran?ois Antoine Ibert was a French composer of european classical music....
     - "First Grand Prize"
  • 1923 - Jeanne Leleu - "First Grand Prize"
  • 1923 - Robert Bréard - "Second Prize"
  • 1934 - Eugène Bozza
    Eugène Bozza

    Eug?ne Joseph Bozza was a France composer.Bozza, who studied composition, conducting, and violin at the Paris Conservatoire, was known primarily for his chamber music....
  • 1938 - Henri Dutilleux
    Henri Dutilleux

    Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own....
  • 1939 - Pierre Maillard-Verger, Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
    Jean-Jacques Grunenwald

    Jean-Jacques Grunenwald , was a French organist, composer, architect, and pedagogue....
  • 1940 - No competition
  • 1941 - No competition
  • 1942 - Alfred Desenclos
    Alfred Désenclos

    Alfred Desenclos , was a France composer of Classical music music. A self-described "romantic," his music is highly expressive and atmospheric while rooted in a rigorous compositional technique....
    , Rolande Falcinelli
    Rolande Falcinelli

    Rolande Falcinelli , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue....
  • 1943 - Pierre Sancan
  • 1944 - Raymond Gallois Montbrun
  • 1945 - Claude Pascal, Marcel Bitsch
    Marcel Bitsch

    Marcel Bitsch is a French composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris....
    , Gérard Calvi (Krettly), Charles Jay
    Charles Jay

    Charles Jay was the President of the United States nominee of the United States Boston Tea Party in the United States presidential election, 2008....
  • 1950 - Éveline Plicque-Andrani, Serge Lancen
  • 1951 - Charles Chaynes, Ginette Keller
  • 1952 - Alain Weber, Jean-Michel Defay, Jacques Albrespic
  • 1953 - Jacques Castérède
    Jacques Castérède

    Jacques Cast?r?de is a French composer.He studied at Lyc?e Buffon. He gained his baccaluareat in elementary mathematics, before he entered Paris Conservatoire in 1944 and began studying piano under Armand Fert?, composition under Tony Aubin, analysis under Olivier Messiaen....
    , Pierick Houdy
  • 1954 - Roger Boutry
  • 1955 - Pierre Max Dubois
    Pierre Max Dubois

    Pierre Max Dubois is a French composer of european classical music. He was a student of Darius Milhaud, and though not widely popular, was respected....
    , René Maillard
  • 1956 - Jean Aubain, Pierre Gabaye
    Pierre Gabaye

    Pierre Gabaye was a France composer.His musical tuition began at age seven on the piano, and which led him to pursue a career as a pianist and composer in both the classical and jazz spheres....
  • 1960 - Gilles Boizard, Jean-Claude Henry
  • 1961 - Christian Manen, Pierre Durand
  • 1962 - Alain Petitgirard, Antoine Tisné
  • 1963 - Yves Cornière, Michel Decoust
    Michel Decoust

    Michel Decoust is a France composer and Conductor .Decoust studied from 1956 to 1965 with Jean Rivier and Darius Milhaud at the Paris Conservatoire, as well as at the Cologne Courses for New Music in 1964?65, with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen....
  • 1964 - no first prize, Xavier Darasse
  • 1965 - Thérèse Brenet, Lucie Diessel-Robert
  • 1966 - Monique Cecconi-Botella, Michel Merlet
  • 1967 - Michel Rateau, Philippe Dugroz
  • 1968 - Alain Louvier, Edith Lejet
After 1968, the Prix de Rome changed formats and the competition was no longer organised.

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