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The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize

The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize

1841 or 1842
(French, 1797–1856)
Sheet: 16.4 x 29.2 cm (6 7/16 x 11 1/2 in.); Secondary Support: 28.4 x 42.9 cm (11 3/16 x 16 7/8 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

This sketch records a meeting of the jury of the Rome Prize, an annual award for promising students given by the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. The prize included a scholarship for several years of study in Rome amid treasures of ancient and Renaissance art. The Rome Prize long represented the first important step toward developing a solid official career as a painter in France. Although most of the men sketched here are unrecognizable, the one closest to the left appears to be the painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). The identification allows us to correct the date of 1843 inscribed at the bottom of the drawing, for we know that Ingres did not participate as a jury member in 1843. Instead the sketch must date to 1841 or 1842.
  • Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Referenced: cat. no. 32, p. 72-73, Reproduced: p. 73
    Marchetti, Elena, and Stéphane Paccoud. Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste: lLs Flandrin, Artistes et Frères. [Lyon]: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; [Paris]: In Fine, 2021. Mentioned: P. 57; Reproduced: P. 55, fig. 15
  • French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
  • {{cite web|title=The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize|url=false|author=Paul Delaroche|year=1841 or 1842|access-date=21 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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