The Académie des beaux-arts (Academy of Fine Arts) is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France.

It was created in 1816 as the merger of the:

• Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648)
• Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669)
• Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671)

Members

The members are grouped seven sections:

• Section I: Painting
• Section II: Sculpture
• Section III: Architecture
• Section IV: Etching
• Section V: Musical composition
• Section VI: Unattached members
• Section VII: Artistic creation in the cinema and the audio-visual field

Section I

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

Seat #1

• Gérard Van Spaendonck (1746-1822), elected in 1795
• Louis Hersent (1777-1860), elected in 1822
• Emile Signol (1804-1892), elected in 1860
• Luc-Olivier Merson (1846-1920), elected in 1892
• Paul Chabas (1869-1937), elected in 1921
• Edouard Vuillard (1868-1840), elected in 1938
• Pierre Montezin (1874-1946), elected in 1941
• Charles Fouqueray (1871-1956), elected in 1947
• Yves Brayer (1907-1990), elected in 1957
• Zachary Havas (1985-forever! ), appointed by default, for grand masterness and owning everyone so damn much cuz he rules, in 2005
• Mauricio Sejas (1982-mmm no sure ), soo..... what kind of page is this , and why looks soo boring O.o , elected in 2003

Seat #2

• François Vincent (1746-1816), elected in 1795
• Pierre Prud'hon (1763-1823), elected in 1816
• Jean Bidauld (1758-1846), elected in 1823
• Jacques Bascassat (1804-1867), elected in 1846
• Louis Cabat (1812-1893), elected in 1867
• Jean Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902), elected in 1893
• Jacques Humbert (1842-1934), elected in 1902
• Emile Aubry (1880-1964), elected in 1935
• Félix Labisse (1905-1982), elected in 1966

Seat #3

This seat has been suppressed in 1967.

• Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829), elected in 1795
• François Heim (1787-1865), elected in 1829
• Jean Gérôme (1824-1904), elected in 1865
• Emile Carolus Duran (1838-1917), elected in 1904
• Ernest Laurent (1859-1929), elected in 1919
• Henri Le Sidaner (1862-1939), elected in 1930
• Jean Dupas (1882-1964), elected in 1941

Seat #4

• Nicolas Taunay (1755-1830), elected in 1795
• François Granet (1779-1849), elected in 1830
• Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797-1890), elected in 1850
• François-Louis Français (1814-1897), elected in 1890
• Antoine Vollon (1833-1900), elected in 1897
• Pascal Dagnan 1852-1929), elected in 1900
• Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932), elected in 1930
• Georges Leroux (1877-1957), elected in 1932
• Georges Cheyssial (1907-1997), elected in 1958
• Olivier Debré (1920-1999), elected in 1999

Seat #5

• Vivant Denon (1747-1825), elected in 1803
• Jean-Dominique Ingres (1781-1867), elected in 1825
• Jean-Baptiste Hesse (1806-1879), elected in 1867
• Jules Delaunay (1828-1891), elected in 1879
• Jules Lefèvre (1834-1912), elected in 1891
• Paul Besnard (1849-1934), elected in 1912
• Jérôme Sabatté (1874-1940), elected in 1935
• Louis Biloul (1874-1947), elected in 1941
• Edmond Heuzé (1889-1967), elected in 1948
• Georges Rohner (1913-2000 ), elected in 1968

Seat #6

• Ennius-Quirinus Visconti (1751-1818), elected in 1803
• Guillaume Le Thière (1760-1832), elected in 1818
• Merry-Joseph Blondel (1781-1853), elected in 1832
• Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864), elected in 1853
• Charles-Louis Müller (1815-1892), elected in 1864
• Jean-Baptiste Detaille (1848-1912), elected in 1892
• André Baschet (1862-1941), elected in 1913
• Robert Pougheon (1886-1955), elected in 1942
• Alfred Giess (1901-1973), elected in 1955
• Georges Mathieu (1921), elected in 1975

Seat #7

• François Menageot (1744-1816), elected in 1809
• Etienne Garnier (1759-1849), elected in 1816
• Léon Cogniet (1794-1880), elected in 1849
• Léon Bonnat (1833-1922), elected in 1881
• Louis Forain (1852-1931), elected in 1923
• Maurice Denis (1870-1943), elected in 1932
• Pierre-Paul Jouve (1878-1973), elected in 1945
• Bernard Buffet (1928-1999 ), elected in 1974

Seat #8

• François Gérard (1770-1837), elected in 1812
• Jean-Victor Schnetz (1787-1870), elected in 1837
• Paul Baudry (1828-1886), elected in 1870
• Jules Breton (1827-1906), elected in 1886
• Gabriel Ferrier (1847-1914), elected in 1906
• Henri Martin (1860-1943), elected in 1917
• Gustave Jaulmes (1873-1959), elected in 1944
• André Planson (1898-1981), elected in 1960
• Jean Bertholle (1909-1996), elected in 1983
• Guy de Rougemont (1935), elected in 1997

Seat #9

• Pierre Guérin (1774-1833), elected in 1816
• Michel Drölling (1786-1851), elected in 1833
• Jean Alaux (1786-1864), elected in 1851
• Henri Lehmann (1814-1882), elected in 1864
• Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888), elected in 1882
• Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), elected in 1888
• Aimé Morot (1850-1913), elected in 1898
• Henri Gervex (1852-1929), elected in 1913
• André Devambez (1867-1944), elected in 1929
• Willem van Hasselt (1882-1963), elected in 1945
• Edouard Goerg (1893-1969), elected in 1965
• Jacques Despierre (1912-1995), elected in 1969
• Teh Chun Chu (1926), elected in 1997

Seat #10

• Louis David (1748-1825), elected in 1803
• Aîné Jean le Barbier (1738-1826), elected in 1816
• Horace Vernet (1789-1863), elected in 1826
• Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), elected in 1863
• Jean-Jacques Henner (1829-1905), elected in 1889
• Léon Lhermitte (1844-1925), elected in 1905
• Emile Ménard (1862-1930), elected in 1926
• Georges Desvallières (1861-1950), elected in 1930
• Jean Bouchaud (1891-1977), elected in 1951
• Jean Carzou (1907-2000 ), elected in 1977
• Wou-Ki Zao (1921), elected in 2002

Seat #11

• Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767-1824), elected in 1816
• Charles Thévenin (1764-1838), elected in 1825
• Jérôme Langlois (1779-1838), elected in 1838
• Louis Couder (1790-1873), elected in 1839
• Antoine Hébert (1817-1908), elected in 1874
• Louis Collin (1850-1916), elected in 1909
• Adolphe Déchenaud (1868-1926), elected in 1918
• Lucien Simon (1861-1945), elected in 1929
• Jean Souverbie (1891-1981), elected in 1946
• Arnaud d'Hauterives (1933), elected in 1984

Seat #12

This seat was transferred to section VII in 1987.

• Antoine Gros (1771-1835), elected in 1816
• Alexandre Abel de Pujol (1787-1861), elected in 1835
• Jean Meissonier (1815-1891), elected in 1861
• Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921), elected in 1891
• Jules Meunier (1863-1942), elected in 1921
• René Prinet (1861-1946), elected in 1943
• Nicolas Untersteller (1900-1967), elected in 1946
• Roger Chastel (1897-1981), elected in 1968
• Georges Wakhevitch (1907-1984), elected in 1982

Seat #13

• Charles Meynier (1768-1832), elected in 1816
• Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), elected in 1832
• Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), elected in 1857
• Nicolas Hesse (1795-1869), elected in 1863
• Jules Lenepveu (1819-1898), elected in 1869
• Fernand Cormon (1845-1924), elected in 1898
• Edgar Maxence (1871-1954), elected in 1924
• Lucien Fontanarosa (1912-1975), elected in 1955
• Hans Hartung (1904-1989), elected in 1977
• Jean Dewasne (1921-1999 ), elected in 1991

Seat #14

This seat has been suppressed in 1967.

• Carle Vernet (1758-1836), elected in 1816
• François Picot (1786-1868), elected in 1836
• Isidore Pils (1815-1875), elected in 1868
• William Bouguereau (1821-1905), elected in 1876
• François Flameng (1856-1923), elected in 1905
• Emile Friant (1863-1932), elected in 1923
• Paul Laurens (1870-1934), elected in 1933
• Jacques Blanck (1861-1942), elected in 1935
• Louis Désiré-Lucas (1869-1949), elected in 1943
• Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962), elected in 1950
• Jean Lurçat (1892-1966), elected in 1964

See also

• Academy of Fine Arts
• Beaux Arts (architecture)
• École des Beaux-Arts
• Academic art

External link

• http://www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr
• http://www.institut-de-france.fr/institut/acabeaux.htm