The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize (1841 or 1842): Art, History and Details

The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize (1841 or 1842) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Paul Delaroche (French, 1797–1856).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize
• Date: 1841 or 1842
• Creator attribution: Paul Delaroche (French, 1797–1856)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: pen and brown ink
• Dimensions: 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.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.346

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• 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.
• Marchetti, Elena, and Stéphane Paccoud. Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste: lLs Flandrin, Artistes et Frères. [Lyon]: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; [Paris]: In Fine, 2021.

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