Art Society

Société nationale des beaux-arts

Société nationale des beaux-arts was an art society founded in 1862. This catalog holds 321 public-domain works by 14 of its members. Its artists are most associated with Academic Art.

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The Société nationale des beaux-arts was a prominent French artistic society established in 1862 to provide an alternative exhibition venue to the official Paris Salon. Led initially by figures like Ernest Meissonier and later by Puvis de Chavannes, it offered a broader, more liberal range of art than the official Salon, organizing annual salons that significantly shaped the French art market and public taste in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Works by its members