1841
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize is a 1841 by Paul Delaroche, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a group of men gathered around a table, looking at papers and talking. The scene shows a meeting of the jury of the Rome Prize. This prize was a big deal for young artists in France, as it included a scholarship to study in Rome. To learn more about the artist who created this scene, look up Paul Delaroche.
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…
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Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (French pronunciation: ; 17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) was a French painter known for his depiction of scenes from English and French history.
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