Prix de Rome
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Scholarship
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for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France
France
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during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary
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for promising artists having proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. The prize, organised by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (in English the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture), was open to their students. From 1666, the award winner could win a stay of three to five years at the Palazzo Mancini
Palazzo Mancini
The Palazzo Mancini is a palazzo in Rome, Italy. From 1737 to 1793 it was the second home of the French Academy in Rome.-History:In 1634 Lorenzo Mancini, brother of cardinal Francesco Maria Mancini, married Geronima Mazzarino, sister of cardinal Mazarin...
in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
at the expense of the King of France. In 1720, the Académie Royale d’Architecture began a prize in architecture. Six painters, four sculptors, and two architects would be sent to the Académie de France à Rome or The Academy of France in Rome
French Academy in Rome
The French Academy in Rome is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio in Rome, Italy.-History:...
founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His relentless hard work and thrift made him an esteemed minister. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing...
from 1666.
Expanded after 140 years into five categories, the contest started in 1663 as two categories: painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
. Architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
was added in 1720. In 1803, music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
was added, and after 1804 there was a prix for engraving
Engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...
as well. The primary winner took the "First Grand Prize" (called the agréé) and the "Second Prizes" were awarded to the runners-up.
In 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte moved the French Academy in Rome to the Villa Medici
Villa Medici
The Villa Medici is a mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French...
with the intention of preserving an institution once threatened by the French Revolution
French Revolution
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. At first, the villa and its gardens were in a sad state, and they had to be renovated in order to house the winners of the Prix de Rome. In this way, he hoped to retain for young French artists the opportunity to see and copy the masterpieces of antiquity and the Renaissance. Well-known recipients of the Prix de Rome included the architect Tony Garnier
Tony Garnier (architect)
Tony Garnier was a noted architect and city planner. He was most active in his hometown of Lyon.Garnier is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects...
, who, instead of concentrating his studies on the ancient ruins, used his time at the Academy (between 1899 and 1904) principally to develop his ideas for the development of a modern industrial city (Une Cité Industrielle, published in 1918), a precursor of later modernist urban and architectural ideas of twentieth century architects such as Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...
.
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....
, Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist...
, Ernest Chausson
Ernest Chausson
Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.-Life:Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family...
, and Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
attempted the Prix de Rome, but did not gain recognition. Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...
, having failed three years in a row, considered suicide. Ravel tried a total of five times to win the prize, and the last failed attempt in 1905 was so controversial that it led to a complete reorganization of the administration at the Paris Conservatory.
The Prix de Rome was suppressed in 1968 by André Malraux
André Malraux
André Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt...
, who was Minister of Culture at the time. Since then, a number of contests have been created, and the academies, together with The Institute of France, were merged by the State and the Minister of Culture. Selected residents now have an opportunity for study during an 18-month (sometimes 2-year) stay at The Academy of France in Rome, which is accommodated in the Villa Medici.
The heyday of the Prix de Rome was during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Winners in the Architecture Category
This is an incomplete list. From 1722 to 1786, a Grand Prix de Rome in architecture was awarded by the Académie d'architectureAcadémie d'architecture
The Académie royale d'architecture was a French learned society founded on December 30, 1671 by Louis XIV, king of France under the impulsion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert...
- its first holder was Jean Michel Chevotet.
- 1742 - Nicolas-Henri JardinNicolas-Henri JardinNicolas-Henri Jardin , neoclassical architect, was born in St. Germain des Noyers, Dept. Seine-et-Marne, France, and worked seventeen years in Denmark as an architect to the royal court...
- 1759 - Antoine Le Roy
- 1775 - Paul Guillaume Le Moine
- 1779 - Guy de GisorsGuy de GisorsAlexandre-Jean-Baptiste-Guy de Gisors was a French architect.His works include the Église de la Madeleine in Paris, and Saint-Vincent Cathedral in Mâcon in 1816. In about 1810 he took over the ongoing designs for the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, succeeding Giuseppe Valadier and adhering to...
- 1785 - Pierre-Francois-Leonard Fontaine
- 1786 - Charles PercierCharles PercierCharles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days...
- 1789 - Jean Baptiste Louis François Le Febvre
- 1805 - Auguste GuenepinAuguste GuenepinAuguste Jean Marie Guenepin was a French architect.He was the son of Étienne François Edmé Guenepin and Marie Madeleine Delfau and Aimée Desenne's husband....
- 1808 - Achille-François-René LeclèreAchille-François-René LeclèreAchille-François-René Leclère was a French architect and teacher of architecture.Achille Leclère studied architecture under Charles Percier and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand. After finishing his studies, he won the 1808 Premier Grand Prix de Rome where the final round topic was, "Public baths in...
- 1815 - Tilman-François SuysTilman-François SuysTilman-François Suys or Tieleman Frans Suys , was a Belgian architect who also worked in the Netherlands....
- 1819 - Martin-Pierre Gauthier
- 1821 - Guillaume-Abel BlouetGuillaume-Abel BlouetGuillaume-Abel Blouet was a French architect who specialised in prison design.-Biography:Blouet was born at Passy. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1821 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, entitling him to five years' study at the French Academy in Rome...
- 1822 - Émile GilbertÉmile GilbertÉmile-Jacques Gilbert was a French architect.In 1838 Gilbert was commissioned to reconstruct the hospital for the insane at Charenton along modern more humane lines recommended by Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol; the new structure was completed in 1845...
- 1823 - Félix DubanFélix DubanJacques Félix Duban was a French architect, the contemporary of Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Henri Labrouste.Duban won the Prix de Rome in 1823, the most prestigious award of the École des Beaux-Arts...
- 1824 - Henri LabrousteHenri LabroustePierre François Henri Labrouste was a French architect from the famous École des Beaux Arts school of architecture. After a six year stay in Rome, Labrouste opened an architectural training workshop, which quickly became the center of the Rationalist view...
- 1826 - Léon VaudoyerLéon VaudoyerLéon Vaudoyer was a French architect. He was one of the "romantic" Beaux-Arts architects influenced by Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte, along with his contemporaries Félix Duban, Henri Labrouste, and Louis Duc....
- 1833 - Victor BaltardVictor BaltardVictor Baltard , French architect, who was born in Paris, son of architect Louis Baltard.Until 1833, Baltard studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he garnered the Prix de Rome for designing a military school in 1833...
- 1837 - Jean-Baptiste Guenepin
- 1839 - Hector LefuelHector LefuelHector-Martin Lefuel was a French historicist architect, whose most familiar work was the completion of the Palais du Louvre, including the reconstruction of the Pavillon de Flore after a disastrous fire.He was the son of Alexandre Henry Lefuel , an entrepreneurial speculative builder established...
- 1840 - Théodore BalluThéodore BalluThéodore Ballu was a French architect.He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1835 and was the pupil of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas....
- 1847 - Louis-Jules AndréLouis-Jules AndréLouis-Jules André was a French academic architect and the head of an important atelier at the École des Beaux-Arts.- Biography :...
- 1848 - Charles GarnierCharles Garnier (architect)Charles Garnier was a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.-Early life:...
- 1850 - Victor Louvet
- 1852 - P.R.L. Ginain
- 1854 - Joseph Auguste Émile VaudremerJoseph Auguste Émile VaudremerJoseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer was a French architect. He won the prix de Rome and designed several public buildings in France, particularly in Paris.-Life:...
- 1855 - Honore DaumetHonoré DaumetPierre Jérôme Honoré Daumet was a French architect.Daumet was the winner of the Prix de Rome in 1855, and in 1861 conducted a treasure-hunting expedition to Macedonia at the request of Napoleon III, accompanying the archaeologist Léon Heuzey...
- 1861 - Constant Moyaux
- 1864 - Julien Guadet
- 1866 - Jean-Louis PascalJean-Louis PascalJean-Louis Pascal was an academic French architect.- Life :Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts by Émile Gilbert and Charles-Auguste Questel...
- 1867 - Henri Jean Émile Bénard
- 1869 - Ferdinand Dutert
- 1870 - Albert-Félix-Théophile ThomasAlbert-Félix-Théophile ThomasAlbert-Félix-Théophile Thomas was a French architect.Thomas was born in Marseilles, and was a student of Alexis Paccard and Leon Vaudoyer at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won the first Prix de Rome in 1870, and became the youngest winner of the French Academy in Rome from February 15, 1871...
- 1878 - Victor LalouxVictor LalouxVictor Alexandre Frederic Laloux was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher.- Life :Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts atelier of Louis-Jules André, with his studies interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, and was awarded the annual Prix de Rome in 1878...
- 1880 - Louis GiraultCharles GiraultCharles-Louis Girault was a French architect.Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he studied with Honoré Daumet at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He received the first Prix de Rome, awarded him in 1880 on the basis of a design for a hospital for sick children along the...
- 1880 - Jacques HermantJacques HermantJacques-Rene Hermant was a French architect, one of the most renowned architects of fin-de-siècle Paris....
- “Premier Second Grand Prize” - 1881 - Henri Deglane
- 1883 - Gaston RedonGaston RedonGaston Redon was a French architect, teacher, and graphic artist. Redon was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine to a prosperous family, the younger brother of Odilon Redon. Gaston attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of Louis-Jules André, and took the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1883...
- 1886 - Albert Louvet - “Premier Second Grand Prize”
- 1888 - Albert Tournaire
- 1890 - Emmanuel PontremoliEmmanuel PontremoliEmmanuel Pontremoli was a French architect and archaeologist. Born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, a student in the atelier of Louis-Jules André, in 1890 he won the Prix de Rome in the architecture category and in 1922 became a member of the Académie des Beaux Arts...
- 1892 - Guillaume TronchetGuillaume TronchetGuillaume Tronchet was a French architect.- Life :Guillaume Tronchet studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the studio of Louis-Jules André, then in 1890 in that of Victor Laloux...
- 1899 - Tony GarnierTony Garnier (architect)Tony Garnier was a noted architect and city planner. He was most active in his hometown of Lyon.Garnier is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects...
- 1900 - Paul BigotPaul BigotPaul Bigot was a French architect.Bigot was born in Orbec in 1870. He studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the atelier of Louis-Jules André. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1900, which enabled him to study in Rome at the Villa Medici...
- 1902 - Henri ProstHenri ProstHenri Prost was a French architect and town planner. He was noted in particularly for his work in Morocco and designed a number of city streets and buildings between 1914 and 1922, including Casablanca, Fès, Marrakech, Meknès and Rabat.He was the co-founder in 1911 of the French Society of...
- 1903 - Léon JausselyLéon JausselyLéon Jaussely was a French architect and urban planner.Born in Toulouse, Jaussely studied at the local fine arts school, then to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the ateliers of Honoré Daumet and Pierre Esquié...
- 1911 - Raoul Benard
- 1912 - Jacques Debat-Ponsan, second prix Roger-Henri ExpertRoger-Henri ExpertRoger-Henri Expert was a French architect.- Life :The son of a merchant, Expert first studied painting at the École des beaux-arts in Bordeaux, then from 1906 attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Gaston Redon and Gustave Umbdenstock. In 1912 he won the second Prix de...
- 1919 - Jacques CarluJacques CarluJacques Carlu was a French architect and designer, working mostly in Art Deco style, active in France, Canada, and in the United States....
- 1923 - Jean-Baptiste Mathon
- 1927 - André Leconte
- 1928 - Georges Dengler
- 1929 - Jean Niermans
- 1930 - Neil Hamill Park
- 1936 - Paul Jacques Grillo- "Premier Second Grand Prize"
- 1937 - Paul Jacques Grillo
- 1938 - Henry Bernard
- 1939 - Bernard ZehrfussBernard ZehrfussBernard Louis Zehrfuss was a French architect.-Life:From a family that had fled from the Alsace in 1870 after the Franco-Prussian War, Zehrfuss's father was killed in the First Battle of the Marne in 1914...
- 1945 - Jean DubuissonJean DubuissonJean Dubuisson was a French architect who is regarded as one of the leading practitioners of the French post-World War II years.- Biography :Jean René Julien Dubuisson was born in Lille, France...
- 1950 - Xavier Arsène-Henry - “Premier Second Grand Prize”
- 1954 - Michel Marot
- 1955 - Ngô Viết ThụNgo Viet ThuNgô Viết Thụ was a Vietnamese architect; he designed the Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City....
- 1956 - Michel Folliasson - “Premier Second Grand Prize”
- 1966 - Bernard Schoebel
- 1967 - Daniel Kahane
Winners in the Painting Category
- 1663 - Pierre MonierPierre MonierPierre Monier was a French painter, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1663.- Writings :# Histoire des arts qui ont rapport au dessin...
or Mosnier or Meunier - 1673 - Louis de Boullogne le jeune
- 1682 - Hyacinthe RigaudHyacinthe RigaudHyacinthe Rigaud was a French baroque painter of Catalan origin whose career was based in Paris.He is renowned for his portrait paintings of Louis XIV, the royalty and nobility of Europe, and members of their courts and considered one of the most notable French portraitists of the classical period...
- 1688 - Daniel Sarrabat
- 1699 - Pierre-Jacques CazesPierre-Jacques CazesPierre-Jacques Cazes was a French historical painter, known as the teacher of, among others, Chardin. In 1703, he became part of the Académie, was named as director in 1743 and chancellor in 1746. He also worked in the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre in 1727 and produced a large number of...
- 1700 - Alexis Simon BelleAlexis Simon BelleAlexis Simon Belle was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility.-Birth:...
- 1709 - Jean Antoine Watteau (dit Antoine Watteau) - "Second Grand Prize"
- 1711 - François LemoyneFrançois LemoyneFrançois Lemoyne or François Le Moine was a French rococo painter.He was born in Paris. In 1701, when he was 13 years old, he entered the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. He studied under Louis Galloche and stayed until 1713. In 1711, Lemoyne won the Prix de Rome...
- 1720 - François BoucherFrançois BoucherFrançois Boucher was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture...
- 1721 - Charles-Joseph NatoireCharles-Joseph NatoireCharles-Joseph Natoire was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751-1775...
- 1724 - Carle van Loo
- 1727 - Pierre-Hubert Subleyras
- 1734 - Jean-Baptiste Marie PierreJean-Baptiste Marie PierreJean-Baptiste Marie Pierre was a French painter, drawer and administrator.-Life:He was a student of Charles-Joseph Natoire at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and painted a self-portrait in 1732...
- 1736 - Noël HalléNoël HalléNoël Hallé was a French painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was born into a family of artists, the son of Claude-Guy Hallé....
- 1738 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van LooCharles-Amédée-Philippe van LooCharles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo was a French painter of allegorical scenes and portraits.He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, where in 1738 he won the Prix de Rome, then at Aix-en-Provence, before returning to Paris in 1745...
- 1741 - Charles-Michel-Ange ChalleCharles-Michel-Ange ChalleCharles-Michel-Ange Challe, a French painter, architect, and mathematician, was born in Paris in 1718. He studied under André, Lemoine, and Boucher, and subsequently visited Rome. A 'Sleeping Diana,' which he painted in 1744, and a 'Venus' by him are to be seen in Brunswick...
- 1746 - Gabriel François DoyenGabriel François DoyenGabriel François Doyen was a French painter, who was born at Paris.His passion for art prevailed over his father's wish, and he became in his twelfth year a pupil of Charles-André van Loo. Making rapid progress, he obtained at twenty the Grand Prix de Rome, and in 1748 set out for Rome...
- 1752 - Jean-Honoré FragonardJean-Honoré FragonardJean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings , of which only five...
- 1756 - Hughes Taraval
- 1757 - Louis Jean-Jacques DurameauLouis Jean-Jacques DurameauLouis-Jacques Durameau was a French painter.-Life:A son of Jacques Durameau and Marie Rocou , he was intended for an engraver by his father and trained in drawing at the studio of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Defernex. He then entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre...
- 1758 - Jean-Bernard RestoutJean-Bernard RestoutJean-Bernard Restout was a French painter.-Life:A son of Jean II Restout and like him a member of the Académie de Rouen, he won the Prix de Rome in 1758 and was aggregated to the Académie royale on his return from Italy in 1765, then received into it in 1769. However, he refused to conform to its...
- 1765 - Jean BardinJean BardinJean Bardin, a French historical painter, born at Montbard in 1732, was a pupil of Lagrénée, the elder; and afterwards studied at Rome. He became a popular artist in France, and was admitted into the Academy in 1779. He was made director of the art school at Orléans in 1788. His subjects are partly...
- 1766 - François-Guillaume MénageotFrançois-Guillaume MénageotFrançois-Guillaume Ménageot was a French painter of religious and French historical scenes. A pupil of François Boucher , he went on to win the Grand Prix de Rome and become a director of the French Academy in Rome, an academician and a member of the Institute.-Life:He was born in London, the son...
- 1767 - Jean Simon Berthélemy
- 1768 - François-André VincentFrançois-André VincentFrançois-André Vincent was a French neoclassical painter.He was the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien. He travelled to Rome, where he won the Prix de Rome in 1768...
- 1769 - Joseph Barthélémy Le Bouteux, Pierre Lacour - "Second Grand Prize"
- 1770 - Gabriel Lemonnier
- 1771 - Joseph-Benoît SuvéeJoseph-Benoît SuvéeJoseph-Benoît Suvée was a Flemish painter strongly influenced by French neo-classicism.He was born in Bruges. Initially a pupil of Matthias de Visch, he came to France aged 19 and became a pupil of Jean-Jacques Bachelier. In 1771, he won the Prix de Rome...
- 1772 - Pierre-Charles Jombert, Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier - "Second Grand Prize"
- 1773 - Pierre Peyron
- 1774 - Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...
- 1775 - Jean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter.Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin...
- 1776 - Bénigne Gagneraux
- 1778 - Jean-Antoine-Théodore GiroustJean-Antoine-Théodore GiroustJean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust was a French neoclassical painter.In 1770, at age seventeen, Giroust started studying painting in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien, a pioneer of Neoclassicism. Among other students was Jacques-Louis David....
- 1780 - Jean-Pierre Saint-OursJean-Pierre Saint-OursJean-Pierre Saint-Ours was a Swiss painter.Jean-Pierre was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He began studying with his father Jacques who was himself a renowned painter. He continued his studies in Paris, in 1769, with Joseph-Marie Vien...
- 1782 - Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet (dit Carle Vernet)
- 1783 - François Gounod - "Second Grand Prize"
- 1784 - Jean-Germain Drouais, Guillaume Guillon Lethière - "Second Grand Prize"
- 1787 - François-Xavier FabreFrançois-Xavier FabreFrançois-Xavier Fabre was a French painter of historical subjects.Born in Montpellier, Fabre was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and made his name by winning the Prix de Rome in 1787. During the French Revolution, he went to live in Florence, becoming a member of the Florentine Academy and a...
- 1789 - Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-TriosonAnne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-TriosonAnne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson January 5, 1767 – December 9, 1824), was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who was part of the beginning of the Romantic movement by adding elements of eroticism through his paintings...
, Guillaume Guillon Lethière - "Second Grand Prize" - 1790 - Jacques RéattuJacques RéattuJacques Réattu was a French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome. He was an illegitimate son of the painter Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort and Catherine Raspal, sister of the Arles-born painter Antoine Raspal - Antoine gave him his first lessons in painting.In Paris, in 1773 he was a...
- 1792 - Charles Paul LandonCharles Paul LandonCharles Paul Landon was a French painter and popular writer on art and artists.He was born in Nonant and entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, where he made a lifelong friendship with Robert Lefèvre. He and won the first prize of the Academy in 1792, for study at the French Academy in Rome...
- 1797 - Pierre-Narcisse GuérinPierre-Narcisse GuérinPierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin was a French painter.-Biography:Guérin was born in Paris.A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three grands prix offered in 1796, in consequence of the competition not having taken place since 1793...
, Louis-André-Gabriel BouchetLouis-André-Gabriel Bouchet.Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet a French historical painter, scholar of David, painted subjects from sacred and profane history, poetry, andportraits. He obtained the first grand prize in 1797, and continued to exhibit until 1819...
, Pierre BouillonPierre BouillonPierre Bouillon was a French painter and engraver. Born at Thiviers, he studied with the Académie-trained history painter Nicolas-André Monsiau. He was awarded the grand prize of the Institut de France in July, 1797. His drawing of Laocoön and His Sons was the basis of Charles Clément Bervic's... - 1798 - Fulchran-Jean HarrietFulchran-Jean HarrietFulchran-Jean Harriet was a French painter.-Life:A student of David, he won the Prix de Rome in 1793 with "Brutus, killed in battle, is brought back to Rome", and in 1798 with a painting on the theme of "Battle of the Horatii and the Curiatii".He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1796 to 1802...
- 1800 - Jean-Pierre Granger
- 1801 - Jean Auguste Dominique IngresJean Auguste Dominique IngresJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest...
- 1802 - Alexandre Menjaud
- 1803 - Merry-Joseph BlondelMerry-Joseph BlondelMerry-Joseph Blondel was a French neo-classic painter.After a first training in the Dilh et Guerhard porcelain factory, he became a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. He won the prestigious 1803 Prix de Rome for his painting Enée portant son père Anchise...
- 1804 - Joseph-Denis Odevaere
- 1805 - Félix BoisselierFélix BoisselierFélix Boisselier, ' the elder,' a French historical painter, was born at Damphal in 1776, and in early life was employed as draughtsman in a manufactory of decorative papers. At the time of the Revolution he was thrown into prison, and after regaining his liberty entered the studio of Regnault...
- 1807 - François Joseph HeimFrançois Joseph HeimFrançois Joseph Heim was a French painter.He was born at Belfort. He early distinguished himself at the École Centrale of Strassburg, and in 1803 entered the studio of Vincent at Paris...
- 1808 - Alexandre-Charles Guillemot
- 1809 - Jérôme-Martin Langlois
- 1810 - Michel Martin DrollingMichel Martin DrollingMichel Martin Drolling was a neoclassic French painter , painter of history and portraitist.-Biographie:He was born in Paris. There he began painting under the supervision of his father, the painter Martin Drolling, then after 1806 he studied with Jacques Louis David. For his Colère of Achilles...
- 1811 - Alexandre-Denis-Abel de Pujol
- 1812 - Louis-Vincent-Léon Pallière
- 1813 - François-Edouard PicotFrançois-Édouard PicotFrançois-Edouard Picot was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.-Life:Born in Paris, Picot won the Prix de Rome painting scholarship in 1813...
- 1815 - Jean AlauxJean AlauxJean Alaux, called "le Romain" , was a French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome from 1846-52.-Life and work:...
(dit le Romain) - 1816 - Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas
- 1817 - Léon CognietLéon CognietLéon Cogniet was a French historical and portrait painter.- Biography :Cogniet was born in Paris. In 1812, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at the same time as Delacroix and Géricault. In 1817 he won the Prix de Rome and was a resident at...
, Achille Etna MichallonAchille Etna MichallonAchille Etna Michallon was a French painter.Michallon was the son of the sculptor Claude Michallon. He studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. In 1817, Michallon won the inaugural Prix de Rome for landscape painting. He travelled to Italy in 1818 and remained there for...
- History - 1820 - Amable-Paul CoutanAmable-Paul CoutanAmable-Paul Coutan was a French historical painter, born in Paris in 1792. He studied under Gros, and obtaining the Academy pension was thus enabled later on to improve himself at Rome. Returning to his native country he produced works, representing chiefly classical and mythological subjects,...
- 1821 - Joseph-Désiré CourtJoseph-Désiré CourtJoseph-Désiré Court, a painter of historical subjects and portraits, was born at Rouen in 1797. He became a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts under Gros, and after carrying off the principal honours there pursued his studies still further at Rome...
, Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond - 1823 - Auguste-Hyacinthe DebayAuguste-Hyacinthe DebayAuguste-Hyacinthe Debay, a son of the eminent sculptor Jean Baptiste Joseph Debay, though really a sculptor, began life as an historical painter. He was born at Nantes in 1804, and in 1817, when only thirteen years of age, sent his first portraits to the Salon. After studying under Gros, he...
- 1824 - Charles Philippe Larivière
- 1825 - André GirouxAndré GirouxAndré Giroux may refer to:*André Giroux , nineteenth-century French painter and photographer*André Giroux , twentieth-century Canadian writer and 1949 Montyon Prize winner...
- 1830 - Émile SignolÉmile SignolÉmile Signol was a French artist, born in Paris. Signol died in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise. Although he lived during the Romantic period, his classical background kept him from succumbing to Impressionism or Romanticism....
- 1831 - Henry-Frédéric-Schopin (or Chopin)
- 1832 - Antoine WiertzAntoine WiertzAntoine Joseph Wiertz was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor.-Biography:Born in Dinant from a relatively poor family, he entered the Antwerp art academy in 1820...
, Jean-Hippolyte FlandrinJean-Hippolyte FlandrinJean-Hippolyte Flandrin was a 19th-century French painter. His celebrated 1836 work Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer is in the Louvre.-Early life:... - 1833 - Gabriel Prieur
- 1834 - Paul Jourdy
- 1836 - Dominique PapetyDominique PapetyDominique Louis Féréol Papety was a French painter.-Life:Papety was born in the Rue de la Longue Capuchin in Marseilles, France, where his father was a soap-maker. Dominique Papety studied drawing in his birthplace under Augustin Aubert before entering the Paris studio of Léon Cogniet...
- 1837 - Thomas CoutureThomas CoutureThomas Couture was an influential French history painter and teacher. Couture taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and J-N Sylvestre.-Life:He was born at Senlis, Oise, France...
- 1838 - Isidore PilsIsidore PilsIsidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils was a French painter.Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years...
- 1839 - Ernest HébertErnest Hébertthumb|220px|Self-portrait, aged 17.Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert was a French painter and academic.He was born in Grenoble and died in La Tronche. His painting Mal'aria was exhibited in the Salon of 1850-1851, and now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris...
- 1840 - Pierre-Nicolas Brisset
- 1842 - Victor Biennourry
- 1844 - Félix-Joseph Barrias
- 1845 - Jean-Achille BenouvilleJean-Achille BenouvilleJean-Achille Benouville was a French landscape painter of the academic painting school, known for his Italian landscapes. François-Léon Benouville was his younger brother.-Gallery:...
, Alexandre CabanelAlexandre CabanelAlexandre Cabanel was a French painter.- Biography :Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter...
- “Second Prix de Rome” - 1847 - Jules Eugène LenepveuJules Eugène LenepveuJules Eugène Lenepveu Boussaroque de Lafont, known as Jules Eugène Lenepveu was a French painter.Born at Angers, he studied at the école des Beaux-Arts, and later he was a pupil of François-Édouard Picot in Paris. He entered the École nationale. After winning the Prix de Rome, he went to Rome to...
- 1848 - Joseph Stallaert; William-Adolphe BouguereauWilliam-Adolphe BouguereauWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist; in his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of Classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.-Life and career :William-Adolphe...
& Gustave BoulangerGustave BoulangerGustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger was a French figure painter known for his Neo-Grec style. He was born at Paris, studied with Delaroche and Jollivet, and in 1849 took the Prix de Rome. His paintings are prime examples of academic art of the time, particularly history painting...
- “Second Prize” - 1849 - Gustave BoulangerGustave BoulangerGustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger was a French figure painter known for his Neo-Grec style. He was born at Paris, studied with Delaroche and Jollivet, and in 1849 took the Prix de Rome. His paintings are prime examples of academic art of the time, particularly history painting...
- 1850 - William-Adolphe BouguereauWilliam-Adolphe BouguereauWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist; in his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of Classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.-Life and career :William-Adolphe...
, Paul Baudry - 1853 - Henri-Pierre PicouHenri-Pierre PicouHenri-Pierre Picou was a French painter born in Nantes. His oeuvre began with portraits and classical historical subject matter but he later moved on to allegorical and mythological themes....
- 1854 - Felix-Henri Giacomotti, Armand BernardArmand BernardArmand Bernard was a French comic actor known mainly for his work in film.-Filmography:* Le traitement du hoquet* The Little Cafe* Les Trois Mousquetaires* Mimi Pinson...
- “Second Prix de Rome” - 1857 - Charles SellierCharles SellierCharles Edward Sellier, Jr. was an American television producer, screenwriter, novelist and director, best known for creating the American book and television series, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams...
- 1858 - Jean-Jacques HennerJean-Jacques HennerJean-Jacques Henner was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects, and portraits....
- 1859 - Benjamin UlmannBenjamin UlmannBenjamin Ulmann, French Jewish painter, born at Blotzheim in 1829, was a pupil of Michel Martin Drolling and of François-Édouard Picot, and entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1849. He gained the prix de Rome in 1859, and profited much by his studies in Italy...
- 1860 - Ernest Michel
- 1861 - Léon Perrault, Jules Joseph LefebvreJules Joseph LefebvreJules Joseph Lefebvre was a French figure painter.Lefebvre entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon...
- 1864 - Diogène-Ulysse-Napoléon Maillart
- 1865 - Jules Machard, André Hennebicq, Gustave Huberti
- 1866 - Henri RegnaultHenri RegnaultAlexandre-Georges-Henri Regnault was a French painter.-Biography:Regnault was born in Paris, the son of Henri Victor Regnault...
- 1868 - Édouard-Théophile BlanchardÉdouard-Théophile BlanchardÉdouard-Théophile Blanchard was a French painter. He was a student of François-Édouard Picot and Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux Arts.Blanchard won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1868....
- 1869 - Luc-Olivier MersonLuc-Olivier MersonLuc-Olivier Merson was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs....
- 1871 - Edouard Toudouze
- 1873 - Aimé MorotAimé MorotAimé Morot was a French painter.Morot was born in Nancy, where he studied under a drawing master named Thierry. He later attended the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but left after only two weeks to continue his studies independently...
- 1874 - Paul-Albert BesnardPaul-Albert BesnardPaul-Albert Besnard was a French painter and printmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel...
- 1875 - Léon ComerreLéon ComerreLéon François Comerre was a French academic painter, famous for his portraits of beautiful women.-Life:Comerre was born in Trélon, in the Département du Nord, the son of a schoolteacher. He moved to Lille with his family in 1853...
, Jules Bastien-LepageJules Bastien-LepageJules Bastien-Lepage , was a French naturalist painter, a style related to the Realist movement.-Life and work:...
- “Second Prize” - 1876 - Joseph Wencker
- 1880 - Henri Lucien DoucetHenri Lucien DoucetHenri Lucien Doucet was a French figure and portrait painter, born in Paris, where he studied under Lefebvre and Boulanger, and in 1880 won the Prix de Rome. His pictures are usually piquant, sparkling representations of modern life, eminently Parisian in style, but the audacious realism of his...
- 1881 - Louis-Edouard-Paul Fournier
- 1883 - André Marcel Baschet, Émile FriantÉmile FriantÉmile Friant was a French artist. Friant was born in the commune of Dieuze, however he was later forced to flee to Nancy. Throughout his lifetime, his paintings were featured at the Salon. Friant died after a fall in Paris in 1932.- Early life :Friant was born in the commune of Dieuze in 1863...
- “Second Prize” - 1884 - Edouard Cabane - "Second Prize"
- 1889 - Ernest LaurentErnest LaurentErnest Joseph Laurent was a French painter and printmaker. He was born in Gentilly and died in Bièvre....
, Charles-Amable LenoirCharles-Amable LenoirCharles-Amable Lenoir was a French painter. Like his mentor, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, he was an academic painter and painted realistic portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes... - 1890 - Charles-Amable LenoirCharles-Amable LenoirCharles-Amable Lenoir was a French painter. Like his mentor, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, he was an academic painter and painted realistic portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes...
- 1891 - Adolphe Déchenaud - “Second Grand Prize”, Hubert-Denis Etcheverry - “Second Prize”
- 1894 - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste Leroux Auguste Leroux, Adolphe Déchenaud
- 1898 - Jean-Amédée Gibert, Jules Joseph LefebvreJules Joseph LefebvreJules Joseph Lefebvre was a French figure painter.Lefebvre entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon...
, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste Leroux Auguste Leroux - "Second Prize" - 1904 - Antonio AliceAntonio AliceAntonio Alice was an Argentine portrait painter. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1904.-Early years:Alice, of Italian descent, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His father, an Italian immigrant, was barely literate...
- 1905 - Albert Henry KrehbielAlbert Henry KrehbielAlbert Henry Krehbiel , was an American artist who was born in Denmark, Iowa and who taught, lived and worked for many years in Chicago. Although educated as a realist in Paris, which is reflected in his neoclassical mural works, soon developed a strong appreciation for impressionism and is mainly...
- 1907 - Louis Léon Eugène Billotey, Émile Aubry
- 1908 - Jean Lefeuvre
- 1910 - Jean DupasJean DupasJean Théodore Dupas was a French painter, designer, poster artist, and decorator whose work is considered the utmost example of Art Nouveau and Art Deco visual arts.- Life :He won the prix de Rome in 1910...
- 1911 - Jean-Gabriel DomergueJean-Gabriel DomergueJean-Gabriel Domergue was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.- Biography :Domergue was born on March 4, 1889 in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits, and claimed to be "the inventor of...
- 1912 - Gabriel Girodon
- 1913 - Robert Davaux
- 1914 - Victor-Julien Giraud, Jean Despujols
- 1919 - Louis-Pierre Rigal
- 1920 - Paul-Émile BécatPaul-Émile BécatPaul-Émile Bécat was a French painter, printmaker and engraver, and was awarded first prize in the Prix de Rome in 1920. He was a student of Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng and exhibitioned at the Salon de Paris in 1913...
- 1921 - Constantin Font
- 1922 - Pierre-Henri Ducos de La Haille
- 1923 - Pierre Dionisi
- 1924 - René-Marie Castaing
- 1925 - Odette Pauvert - First "First Grand Prize" obtained by a woman
- 1928 - Nicolas Untersteller
- 1930 - Yves BrayerYves BrayerYves Brayer is a French painter known for his paintings of every-day life.He was born in Versailles and became prominent in the years between World War I and World War II...
, Salvatore DeMaio - 1932 - Geoffrey BurnandGeoffrey BurnandGeoffrey Burnand was an English painter, theatrical designer and mural artist. His ancestors included the 19th Century Swiss painter Eugène Burnand and Sir Francis Burnand, editor of Punch magazine from 1880-1906....
- 1933 - Daniel Boza
- 1934 - Pierre-Emile-Henri Jérôme
- 1936 - Lucien Fontanarosa & Jean Pinet - “Premier Grand Prize”; Roger Bezombes
- 1941 - Piet Schoenmakers
- 1942 - Pierre-Yves TrémoisPierre-Yves TrémoisPierre-Yves Trémois is a French visual artist and sculptor. He is known for evocative works drawing in equal proportions on surrealism and science illustration, and for combining graphic precision and rigor with flamboyant fantasy....
– “Premier Grand Prize” - 1946 - José Fabri-Canti
- 1947 - Louis Vuillermoz - “Premier Second Grand Prize”
- 1948 - John Heliker
- 1950 - Paul CollombPaul CollombPaul Collomb was a French painter. A native of Ain, he studied art in Paris before World War II. He won the Premier Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1950. Collomb's work has drawn comparisons to that of Maurice Boitel...
- “Premier Second Grand Prize” - 1951 - Daniel Sénélar - “Premier Grand Prize”
- 1953 - Pierick Houdy
- 1955 - Paul Ambille
- 1960 - Pierre CarronPierre CarronPierre Carron is a French sculptor and painter.Born in Fécamp, Normandy, France, he primarily studied drawing at the Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre. Because of the German occupation, he was, for a time, the only student at the school...
- 1962 - Freddy Tiffou
- 1963 - Jesus FuertesJesus FuertesJesus Fuertes was a cubist painter also known as the Painter of Blue - an extraordinary artist who has been christened into the world of art by Salvador Dalí, and who Pablo Picasso himself recognized as a true genius....
- 1965 - Jean-Marc Lange
- 1966 - Gérard Barthélemy
- 1967 - Thierry Vaubourgoin - “Second Grand Prize”
- 1968 - Michel Niel Froment
Winners in the Sculpture Category
- 1673 - Jean Cornu
- 1680 - Jean Joly
- 1682 - Nicolas CoustouNicolas CoustouNicolas Coustou was a French sculptor and academic.Born in Lyon, Coustou was the son of a woodcarver, who gave him his first instruction in art. At eighteen he moved to Paris, to study under C.A...
- 1686 - Pierre Legros
- 1689 - Robert Le LorrainRobert Le LorrainRobert Le Lorrain was a French baroque sculptor who was born in Paris. He was born into a family of bureaucrats, the son of Claude Le Lorrain, a business agent of Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's Minister of Finance. Le Lorrain was a student of the French sculptor, painter, and architect, Pierre...
- 1692 - Benoît Le CoffreBenoît Le CoffreBenoît Le Coffre was a Danish painter of French descent. He became King Frederick IV's Court Painter in 1700 and is considered the earliest representative of light Rococo painting in Denmark.-Biography:...
- 1694 - René Frémin
- 1722 - Edmé BouchardonEdmé BouchardonEdmé Bouchardon was a French sculptor, esteemed in his day as the greatest sculptor of his time and valued as a draughtsman as well.-Biography:...
- 1725 - Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne
- 1739 - Louis-Claude Vassé
- 1748 - Augustin PajouAugustin PajouAugustin Pajou was a French sculptor, born in Paris. At eighteen he won the Prix de Rome, and at thirty exhibited his Pluton tenant Cerbère enchaîné .-Selected works:...
- 1754 - Charles-Antoine Bridan
- 1757 - Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois
- 1758 - Félix LecomteFelix LecomteFélix Lecomte was a French sculptor in the second half of the Eighteenth Century.In 1758 he won the Prix de Rome scholarship in sculpture and attended class in Rome from 1761 to 1768. When he returned to Paris, he was accepted by the Academy thanks especially to his group sculpture in marble...
- 1761 - Jean-Antoine HoudonJean-Antoine HoudonJean-Antoine Houdon was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment...
- 1762 - Louis-Simon BoizotLouis-Simon BoizotLouis-Simon Boizot was a French sculptor whose models for biscuit figures for Sèvres porcelain are better-known than his large-scale sculptures.- Biography :...
- 1765 - Pierre JulienPierre JulienPierre Julien was a French sculptor who worked in a full range of rococo and neoclassical styles.He served an early apprenticeship at Le Puy-en-Velay, near his natal village of Saint-Paulien, then at the École de dessin of Lyon, then entered the Parisian atelier of Guillaume Coustou the Younger...
- 1772 - François-Nicolas DelaistreFrançois-Nicolas DelaistreFrançois-Nicolas Delaistre was a French sculptor.He was educated by Félix Lecomte and Louis-Claude Vassé. Delaistre won the Prix de Rome in 1772; he studied a year at the École royale des élèves protégés at the French Academy and later at the Académie de France in Rome between 1773 and 1777...
- 1779 - Louis-Pierre DeseineLouis-Pierre DeseineLouis-Pierre Deseine was a French sculptor, who was born and died in Paris. He is known above all for his portrait busts and imaginary portraits. At the Salon of 1789, he showed a portrait head of Belisarius....
- 1784 - Antoine-Denis ChaudetAntoine-Denis ChaudetAntoine-Denis Chaudet was a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style.-Works:*Joseph Sold by his Brothers Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763–1810) was a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style.-Works:*Joseph Sold by his Brothers Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763–1810) was a French sculptor...
- 1788 - Jacques-Edme DumontJacques-Edme DumontJacques-Edme Dumont was a French sculptor.Dumont came from a large dynasty of sculptors that included his grandfather Pierre Dumont and children Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc. He was a pupil of Augustin Pajou, and in 1788 he won the Prix de Rome...
- 1790 - François-Frédéric LemotFrançois-Frédéric LemotFrançois-Frédéric Lemot was a French sculptor, working in the Neoclassical style.-Biography:Lemot was born at Lyon....
- 1801 - Joseph-Charles Marin & François-Dominique-Aimé Milhomme
- 1806 - Pierre-François-Grégoire Giraud
- 1809 - Henri-Joseph RuxthielHenri-Joseph RuxthielHenri-Joseph Ruxthiel was a French sculptor. He belonged to the neoclassicism movement....
- 1811 - David d'Angers
- 1812 - François RudeFrançois RudeFrançois Rude was a French sculptor. He was the stepfather of Paul Cabet, a sculptor.Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from François Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable...
- 1813 - Jean-Jacques PradierJames PradierJames Pradier, also known as Jean-Jacques Pradier was a Swiss-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style.-Life and work:...
(dit James Pradier) - 1815 - Étienne-Jules RameyEtienne-Jules RameyÉtienne-Jules Ramey called Ramey fils, was a French sculptor.Ramey was born in Paris, The pupil of his father, Claude Ramey , he trained in the studio of Pierre Cartellier, won the Prix de Rome in sculpture, 1815, with the subject, equally classicizing and sentimental, Ulysses recognized by his...
- 1817 - Charles-François LebœufCharles-François LebœufCharles-François Lebœuf, called Nanteuil was a French sculptor. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in Sculpture in 1817 with a gypsum figure of Agis, dying by his own arms.-Works:...
(dit Nanteuil) - 1818 - Bernard-Gabriel Seurre (dit Seurre Aîné)
- 1819 - Abel DimierAbel DimierAbel Dimier was a French sculptor.He was the pupil of Cartelli. He won the Prix de Rome in 1819 with a bas-relief in plaster named Enée blessé, gueri par Vénus, that can be seen at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts...
- 1820 - Georges JacquotGeorges JacquotGeorges Jacquot was a French sculptor of the 19th century.-Biography:He was a pupil of Baron Gros and sculptor François Joseph Bosio...
- 1821 - Philippe Joseph Henri LemairePhilippe Joseph Henri Lemaire[Philippe Joseph] Henri Lemaire was a French sculptor, working in a neoclassical academic style. He was a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, and won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1821....
- 1823 - Augustin-Alexandre DumontAugustin-Alexandre DumontAugustin-Alexandre Dumont was a French sculptor.He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme Dumont and brother to Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc. In 1818, he started studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris; he was a pupil of Pierre...
& Francisque-Joseph Duret - 1824 - Charles-Marie-Émile Seurre (dit Seurre jeune)
- 1826 - Louis DesprezLouis DesprezLouis Desprez was a French sculptor.Born in Paris, he was a pupil of Francois Joseph Bosio. He went to Rome after winning the Prix de Rome for Sculpture in 1826. He was principally distinguished for his busts and portrait statues....
- 1827 - Jean-Louis JaleyJean-Louis JaleyJean-Louis Nicolas Jaley was a French sculptor.He was the pupil of his father Louis Jaley and Pierre Cartellier...
& François Gaspard Aimé Lanno - 1828 - Antoine Laurent DantanAntoine Laurent DantanAntoine Laurent Dantan was a French academic sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1828. He is often confused with his younger brother Jean-Pierre Dantan, also a sculptor....
(dit Dantan l'Aîné) - 1829 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Debay (dit Debay fils)
- 1830 - Honoré-Jean-Aristide HussonHonoré-Jean-Aristide HussonHonoré Jean Aristide Husson was a French academic sculptor of the 19th century.-Biography:...
- 1832 - François JouffroyFrançois JouffroyFrançois Jouffroy was a French sculptor.Jouffroy was born in Dijon, the son of a baker, and attended the local drawing school before being admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1824. In 1832 he won the Prix de Rome...
& Jean-Louis BrianJean-Louis BrianJean-Louis Brian was a French sculptor.Brian was a pupil of David d'Angers. In 1832, he won, together with François Jouffroy, the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture with his statue Capanée foudroyé sous les murs de Thèbes.... - 1833 - Pierre-Charles SimartPierre-Charles SimartPierre-Charles Simart was a French sculptor.The son of a carpenter from Troyes in Champagne, Simart was the pupil of Antoine Desbœuf, Charles Dupaty, Jean-Pierre Cortot and James Pradier...
- 1836 - Jean-Marie BonnassieuxJean-Marie BonnassieuxJean-Marie Bienaimé Bonnassieux was a French sculptor.The son of a cabinet maker from Lyon, Bonnassieux showed talent as a boy and was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Augustin-Alexandre Dumont...
& Auguste-Louis-Marie Ottin - 1837 - Louis-Léopold ChambardLouis-Léopold ChambardLouis-Léopold Chambard was a French sculptor from Jura. He won the Prix de Rome in 1837. One of his sculptures is in the city hall of Saint-Amour.-Main works:* Modestie, 1861, east facade of the Cour Carrée in the Palais du Louvre, Paris...
- 1838 - Nicolas-Victor Vilain
- 1839 - Théodore-Charles GruyèreThéodore-Charles GruyèreTheodore Charles Gruyère was a French sculptor.In 1836 as the pupil of Auguste Dumont. He hit notoriety in 1839 wining the Prix de Rome....
- 1841 - Georges DieboltGeorges DieboltGeorges Diebolt, sometimes spelled Diébolt, was a French sculptor best known for his publicly-commissioned monumental works, including the Zouave and Grenadier on the pont de l'Alma in Paris and the Maritime Victory on the Pont des Invalides.-Life:Trained at the École nationale des Beaux-Arts in...
& Charles-Joseph Godde - 1842 - Jules Cavelier
- 1843 - René-Ambroise Maréchal
- 1844 - Eugène-Louis LequesneEugène-Louis LequesneEugène-Louis Lequesne was a French sculptor.In 1841, he entered the École nationale des beaux-arts, in James Pradier's workshop. In 1843, he won the second Prix de Rome, and in 1844 the first prize, with a plaster bas-relief entitled Pyrrhus tuant Priam...
- 1845 - Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène GuillaumeJean-Baptiste Claude Eugène GuillaumeJean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume was a French sculptor.-Biography:He was born at Montbard, Côte-d'Or. He studied under Cavelier, Millet, and Barrias, at the École des Beaux-Arts, which he entered in 1841, and where he gained the prix de Rome in 1845 with "Theseus finding on a rock his...
- 1847 - Jacques-Léonard MailletJacques-Léonard MailletJacques-Léonard Maillet was a French academic sculptor of modest reputation, whose themes were of neoclassical and biblical inspiration; his public commissions were in large part for the programs of decorative architectural sculpture required by the grandiose public works programs characteristic...
& Jean-Joseph PerraudJean-Joseph PerraudJean-Joseph Perraud was a French academic sculptor. According to Eaton, "During the Second Empire no sculptor enjoyed a greater reputation," although his style fell out of fashion soon after his death.... - 1848 - Gabriel-Jules Thomas
- 1849 - Louis Roguet
- 1850 - Charles-Alphonse-Achille GumeryCharles GumeryCharles-Alphonse-Achille Guméry was a French sculptor working in an academic realist manner in Paris. Several of his figures ornament the Opéra Garnier most notoriously the group La Danse, which was commissioned from him after the group by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was found unacceptable.Though he...
- 1851 - Gustave Adolphe Désiré Crauk
- 1852 - Alfred-Adolphe-Édouard Lepère
- 1854 - Jean-Baptiste CarpeauxJean-Baptiste CarpeauxJean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a French sculptor and painter.Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of...
- 1855 - Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu & Amédée-Donatien Doublemard
- 1856 - Henri-Charles Maniglier
- 1857 - Joseph TournoisJoseph TournoisJoseph Tournois was a French sculptor.He was the pupil of French sculptors by François Jouffroy and François Rude...
- 1859 - Jean-Alexandre-Joseph FalguièreAlexandre FalguièreJean Alexandre Joseph Falguière was a French sculptor and painter.He was born in Toulouse...
& Louis-Léon Cugnot - 1860 - Barthélemy Raymond
- 1861 - Justin-Chrysostome Sanson
- 1862 - Ernest-Eugène HiolleErnest-Eugène HiolleErnest-Eugène Hiolle was a French sculptor who specialized in classical and allegorical figures in plaster and bronze, as well as many contemporary portrait busts....
- 1863 - Charles-Arthur Bourgeois
- 1864 - Eugène DelaplancheEugène DelaplancheEugène Delaplanche was a French sculptor, born at Belleville .-Life:He was a pupil of Duret, gained the Prix de Rome in 1864 , and the medal of honor in 1878. His "Messenger of Love" , "Aurora" , and the "Virgin of the Lillies" , are in the Luxembourg...
& Jean-Baptiste Deschamps - 1865 - Louis-Ernest BarriasLouis-Ernest BarriasLouis-Ernest Barrias was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school.He was born in Paris into a family of artists. His father was a porcelain-painter, and his older brother Félix-Joseph Barrias a well-known painter...
- 1868 - Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié & Edme-Antony-Paul Noël (dit Tony Noël)
- 1869 - André-Joseph AllarAndré-Joseph AllarAndré-Joseph Allar is a French sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome in 1869 for sculpture, and became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 20 May 1905. He was also officier of the Légion d'honneur...
- 1870 - Jules-Isidore Lafrance
- 1871 - Laurent-Honoré Marqueste
- 1872 - Jules Coutan
- 1873 - Jean-Antoine-Marie Idrac
- 1874 - Jean-Antoine Injalbert
- 1875 - Jean-Baptiste HuguesJean-Baptiste HuguesJean-Baptiste Hugues was a French sculptor.He won the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1875. He was resident at the Villa Medicis from 1876 to 1879. When he was alive, he gained some fame : his works were exhibited at the Salons and were always commented on by critics and writers at the time...
- 1876 - Alfred-Désiré Lanson
- 1877 - Alphonse-Amédée CordonnierAlphonse-Amédée CordonnierAlphonse-Amédée Cordonnier was a French sculptor.Born in La Madeleine, Nord, Cordonnier was educated in nearby Lille, then in Paris, then in Rome, on a scholarship funded by the foundation of Jean-Baptiste Wicar...
- 1878 - Edmond Grasset
- 1879 - Léon FagelLéon FagelLéon Fagel was a French sculptor, best known for his busts.Fagel was born in Valenciennes, won the second Prix de Rome in 1875, and the Prix de Rome in 1879. He exhibited busts of Chevreul, J...
- 1880 - Émile-Edmond Peynot
- 1881 - Jacques-Théodore-Dominique Labatut
- 1882 - Désiré-Maurice Ferrary
- 1883 - Henri-Édouard Lombard
- 1884 - Denys PuechDenys PuechDenys Puech was a French sculptor.-Life:From a family of farmers , he began as an apprentice in the marble workshop of François Mahoux in Rodez...
- 1885 - Joseph-Antoine Gardet
- 1886 - Paul-Gabriel Capellaro
- 1887 - Edgar-Henri BoutryEdgar-Henri BoutryEdgar Boutry was a French sculptor. He was born in Lille and won the prestigious Rome prize in 1887 having been runner up in 1885. In Lille one can see four of Boutry’s works: The monument aux morts which stands in front of the Palais Rihour, the monument remembering the victims of the explosion...
- 1888 - Louis-J. Convers
- 1889 - Jean-Charles Desvergnes
- 1890 - Paul-Jean-Baptiste Gasq
- 1891 - François-Léon SicardFrançois-Léon SicardFrançois-Léon Sicard is considered one of the more talented yet most elusive sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th century...
- 1892 - Hippolyte-Jules Lefebvre
- 1893 - Aimé-Jérémie-Delphin Octobre
- 1894 - Constant-Ambroise Roux
- 1895 - Hippolyte-Paul-René Roussel (dit Paul-Roussel)
- 1896 - Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Champeil
- 1897 - Victor SegoffinVictor SegoffinVictor Joseph Jean Ambroise Segoffin was a French sculptor.Born in Toulouse, educated at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavelier, Segoffin won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1897...
- 1898 - Camille AlaphilippeCamille AlaphilippeCamille Alaphilippe is a French sculptor.At the age of 19, he was the pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens and Louis-Ernest Barrias to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts of Paris....
- 1899 - André-César Vermare
- 1900 - Paul-Maximilien LandowskiPaul LandowskiPaul Maximilien Landowski , a French monument sculptor of Polish ancestry. He was born in Paris to Polish refugees of the January Uprising, and died in Boulogne-Billancourt....
- 1901 - Henri BouchardHenri BouchardHenri Bouchard , was a French sculptor.The son of a carpenter, Bouchard was born in Dijon. He was educated at the Académie Julian and in the studio of Louis-Ernest Barrias before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took the Prix de Rome in 1901...
- 1905 - Lucien BrasseurLucien BrasseurLucien Alcide Constant Brasseur was a French sculptor.Brasseur was born in Saultain in the Nord region and worked in Paris. He attended the École des Beaux Arts, and took the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1905....
- 1906 - François-Maurice Roganeau
- 1909 - Felix Benneteau-Desgrois
- 1911 - Lucienne HeuvelmansLucienne HeuvelmansLucienne Heuvelmans was a French sculptor and illustrator.Heuvelmans studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Laurent Marqueste and Denys Puech. In 1911 she became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome....
- 1913 - Gilbert LedwardGilbert LedwardGilbert Ledward RA , was an English sculptor.He won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1913, and in World War I served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and later as a war artist. He was professor of sculpture at the Royal College of Art and in 1937 was elected a Royal Academician...
- 1914 - Charles Sargeant JaggerCharles Sargeant JaggerCharles Sargeant Jagger MC was a British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war...
- 1919 - Alfred JanniotAlfred JanniotAlfred Auguste Janniot was a French wizard most active in the 1930s.Janniot was educated at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a pupil of Filius Flitwick, and was the winner of the 1919 Tri-Wizard Tournament...
- Premier prize, Raymond DelamarreRaymond DelamarreRaymond Delamarre was a French sculptor and medalist.Delamarre fought in World War I and was awarded the Croix de guerre, then was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Jules-Felix Coutan...
- Premier prize ex aequo et bono, César Schroevens - Third Prize - 1922 - Rayner HoffRayner HoffRayner Hoff was a sculptor who worked in Australia.Born on the Isle of Man, Hoff was the son of a stone and wood carver of Dutch descent. He began helping his father on architectural commissions at a very young age and briefly attended the Nottingham School of Art where he studied drawing, design,...
- 1924 - John SkeapingJohn SkeapingJohn Rattenbury Skeaping, RA was an English sculptor and equine painter.Born in South Woodford, Essex, Skeaping studied at Goldsmith's College, London, and later at the Royal Academy. He was the first husband of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, with whom he exhibited during the 1920s...
- 1932 - Henri Lagriffoul
- 1934 - Albert Bouquillon
- 1935 - Claude Bouscau Premier grand prix de Rome, Alphonse Darville
- 1936 - André Greck
- 1937 - Raymond Granville Barger
- 1939 - René Leleu
- 1944 - Francis Pellerin
- 1947 - Léon Bosramiez
- 1949 - Jean Lorquin
- 1950 - Maurice CalkaMaurice CalkaMaurice Calka was a sculptor, designer and urbanist.Calka was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1950. He was a professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris -...
, Roland Guillaumel - 1954 - Jacqueline Bechet-Ferber
- 1955 - Kenneth FordKen FordKenneth Ford is a British sculptor, is a former Prix de Rome winner for Sculpture, in 1955. He previously studied at the Royal College of Art under Frank Dobson....
- 1956 - Claude Goutin
- 1959 - Georges Jeanclos
- 1961 - Glynn WilliamsGlynn WilliamsProfessor Glynn Williams was born in 1939 in Shrewsbury. After attending Wolverhampton College of Art in 1955, he worked at the British School in Rome until 1963 after winning the Prix de Rome scholarship...
- 1968 - Daniel Druet
Winners in the Engraving Category
- The engravery prize was created in 1804 and suppressed in 1968 by André MalrauxAndré MalrauxAndré Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt...
, the minister of Culture.- 1864 - Jules-Clément ChaplainJules-Clément ChaplainJules-Clément Chaplain was a French sculptor and one of its finest medallists. With Louis Oscar Roty he helped found the Art Nouveau movement....
- 1906 - Henry Cheffer
- 1910 - Jules Piel
- 1911 - Albert DecarisAlbert DecarisAlbert Decaris was a French artist, engraver, painter and aquarellist.At only 19, he won the Concours de Rome, the most prised award for young artists in France at the time...
- 1920 - Pierre Matossy
- 1921 - Pierre GandonPierre GandonPierre Gandon was a French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps. He was born January 20, 1899 in L'Haÿ-les-Roses and died July 23, 1990.-Youth:...
- 1931 - Arthur Henderson HallArthur Henderson HallHall, Arthur Henderson ; ARCA , RE , RWS , Prix de Rome in Engraving , MSIA; English painter in oil and water-colour, draughtsman, etcher and illustrator, glass designer. Educated at Sedgefield, Accrington and Coventry Schools of Art, The Royal College of Art and The British School, Rome...
- 1952 - Claude Durrens
- 1864 - Jules-Clément Chaplain
Winners in the Musical Composition Category
- 1803 - Albert Androt
- 1804 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1805 - Victor Dourlen ("first" First Grand Prize) and Ferdinand Gasse ("second" First Grand Prize)
- 1806 - Guillaume Bouteiller("first" First Grand Prize) and Gustave Dugazon ("second" First Grand Prize)
- 1807 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1808 - Pierre-Auguste-Louis Blondeau
- 1809 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul and Jean Vidal
- 1810 - Désiré Beaulieu
- 1811 - Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste ChélardHippolyte André Jean Baptiste ChélardHippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard was a French composer, violist, and conductor of the Classical era....
- 1812 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold ("first" First Grand Prize) and Félix Cazot ("second" First Grand Prize)
- 1813 - Auguste Mathieu PanseronAuguste Mathieu PanseronAuguste Mathieu Panseron was a French composer and voice teacher.-Biography:Panseron was born in Paris. He studied in Vienna with Antonio Salieri, having been accepted by the master thanks to a recommendation by Luigi Cherubini. In 1824, Panseron began teaching singing at the Conservatoire de Paris...
- 1814 - Pierre-Gaspard Roll
- 1815 - François BenoistFrançois BenoistFrançois Benoist was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.Benoist was born in Nantes. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris and won the Prix de Rome in 1815 for his cantata Œnone. In 1819, he became organist and professor of organ at the Conservatoire; he held the latter post for...
- 1816 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1817 - Désiré-Alexandre BattonDésiré-Alexandre BattonDésiré-Alexandre Batton was a French composer. A student of Luigi Cherubini at the Conservatoire de Paris, he composed operas and cantatas; a number of his operas were seen at the Theatre Feydeau and the Opéra-Comique. In 1817 he took first place in the Prix de Rome competition for his cantata...
- 1818 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1819 - Fromental HalévyFromental HalévyJacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy , was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive.-Early career:...
("first" First Grand Prize) and Jean Massin dit Turina ("second" First Grand Prize) - 1820 - Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne
- 1821 - Victor Rifaut
- 1822 - Joseph-Auguste Lebourgeois and Hyppolyte de Fontmichel
- 1823 - Edouard Boilly and Louis Ermel
- 1824 - Auguste Barbereau
- 1825 - Albert Guillion
- 1826 - Claude Paris and Emile Bienaimé
- 1827 - Jean-Baptiste Guiraud
- 1828 - Guillaume Ross dit Despréaux
- 1829 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1830 - Hector BerliozHector BerliozHector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
("first" First Grand Prize) and Alexandre Montfort ("second" First Grand Prize) - 1831 - Eugène-Prosper Prévost
- 1832 - Ambroise ThomasAmbroise ThomasCharles Louis Ambroise Thomas was a French composer, best known for his operas Mignon and Hamlet and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871 till his death.-Biography:"There is good music, there is bad music, and then there is Ambroise Thomas."- Emmanuel Chabrier-Early life...
- 1833 - Alphonse Thys (1807–1879)
- 1834 - Antoine Elwart and Hippolyte Colet
- 1835 - Ernest Boulanger (1815–1900)
- 1836 - Xavier Boisselot (1811–1893)
- 1837 - Louis Désiré Besozzi
- 1838 - Georges Bousquet; Edme Deldevez; and Charles DanclaCharles DanclaJean Baptiste Charles Dancla was a French violinist, composer and teacher.-Biography:...
- 1839 - Charles GounodCharles GounodCharles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
- 1840 - François BazinFrançois BazinFrançois Emmanuel Joseph Bazin was a well-known French opera composer during the nineteenth century. His works are not widely performed today.-Biography:...
and Édouard BatisteÉdouard BatisteÉdouard Batiste was a French composer and organist. He was born and died in Paris.While studying at the Imperial Conservatoire as a teenager, he won prizes in solfège, harmony and accompaniment, counterpoint and fugue, and organ... - 1841 - Aimé MaillartAimé MaillartLouis-Aimé Maillart was a French composer, best known for his operas, particularly Les Dragons de Villars and Lara.-Biography:Maillart was born in Montpellier...
; Théodore Mozin; and Alexis de Garaudé - 1842 - Alexis Roger (1814–1846)
- 1843 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1844 - Victor MasséVictor MasséVictor Massé was a French composer.-Biography:...
(1822–1884) - 1845 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1846 - Léon GastinelLéon GastinelLéon Gastinel was a French composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Jacques Halévy and was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1846 for his cantata Valasquez. While relatively unknown today, Gastinel wrote two complete masses, two symphonies and four oratorios...
- 1847 - Pierre-Louis Deffès
- 1848 - Jules Duprato
- 1849 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1850 - Joseph Charlot
- 1851 - Jean-Charles-Alfred Deléhelle
- 1852 - Léonce Cohen
- 1853 - Pierre-Christophe-Charles Galibert
- 1854 - Adrien Grat-Nobert Barthe
- 1855 - Jean Conte
- 1856 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1857 - Georges BizetGeorges BizetGeorges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
- 1858 - Samuel David
- 1859 - Ernest GuiraudErnest GuiraudErnest Guiraud was a French composer and music teacher born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Bizet's opera Carmen and for Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann .- Biography :Guiraud began his schooling in Louisiana under the...
- 1860 - Émile PaladilheEmile PaladilheÉmile Paladilhe was a French composer of the late romantic period.-Biography:Émile Paladilhe was born in Montpellier. He was a musical child prodigy, and moved from his home in the south of France to Paris to begin his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris at age 10...
- 1861 - Théodore DuboisThéodore DuboisFrançois-Clément Théodore Dubois was a French composer, organist and music teacher.-Biography:Théodore Dubois was born in Rosnay in Marne. He studied first under Louis Fanart and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. He won the Prix de Rome in 1861...
- 1861 - Théodore SaloméThéodore SaloméThéodore-César Salomé was a French organist and composer.-Biography:Théodore Salomé was born in Paris. He completed all of his musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, under the tutelage of François Bazin for harmony and accompaniment, and François Benoist for organ...
("first" Second Grand Prize) - 1861 - Eugène Anthiome and Titus Constantin ("second" Second Grand Prize)
- 1862 - Louis-Albert Bourgault-DucoudrayLouis-Albert Bourgault-DucoudrayLouis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray was a French Breton composer, pianist, and professor of music history/theory at the Conservatoire de Paris as well as a Prix de Rome laureate. He was born at Nantes and died at Vernouillet, near Dreux...
- 1863 - Jules MassenetJules MassenetJules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...
- 1864 - Victor Sieg
- 1865 - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu
- 1866 - Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard (1843–1917)
- 1867 - no prize awarded
- 1868 - Alfred Pelletier-Rabuteau and Eugène Wintzweiller
- 1869 - Antoine Taudou
- 1870 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre and Henri Maréchal
- 1871 - Gaston SerpetteGaston SerpetteHenri Charles Antoine Gaston Serpette was a French composer, best known for his operettas. After winning the prestigious Prix de Rome as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, he was expected to pursue a career in serious music. Instead, he turned to operetta, writing more than twenty full-length...
- 1872 - Gaston Salvayre
- 1873 - Paul Puget
- 1874 - Léon Erhart
- 1875 - André Wormser
- 1876 - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher
- 1877 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1878 - Clément Broutin
- 1879 - Georges HüeGeorges HüeGeorges Adolphe Hüe was a French composer of classical music.-Biography:Hüe was born in Versailles into a noted family of architects. His musical education included studies with Charles Gounod and César Franck. In 1879, he won the Prix de Rome with his cantata Médée...
- 1880 - Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher
- 1881 - no Grand Prize awarded
- 1882 - Georges MartyGeorges MartyGeorges-Eugène Marty was a French conductor and composer associated with both major opera houses in Paris.-Career:...
- 1882 - Gabriel PiernéGabriel PiernéHenri Constant Gabriel Pierné was a French composer, conductor, and organist.-Biography:Gabriel Pierné was born in Metz in 1863. His family moved to Paris to escape the Franco-Prussian War. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, gaining first prizes for solfège, piano, organ, counterpoint and fugue...
- "Second Prize" - 1883 - Paul VidalPaul VidalPaul Antoine Vidal was a French composer, conductor and music teacher.Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse. He studied at the conservatoires in Toulouse and in Paris, under Jules Massenet in the latter. He won the Prix de Rome in 1883, one year before Claude Debussy did...
- 1884 - Claude DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
- 1885 - Xavier LerouxXavier LerouxXavier Henry Napoleón Leroux was a French composer.Leroux was the son of a military bandleader. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois, and won the Prix de Rome in 1885 with the cantata Endymion...
- 1886 - Augustin SavardMarie Emmanuel Augustin SavardMarie Emmanuel Augustin Savard was a French composer.He was the son of Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard...
- 1886 - André GedalgeAndré GedalgeAndré Gedalge , was an influential French composer and teacher.- Biography :André Gedalge was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères, in Paris, where he first worked as a bookseller and editor specializing in livres de prix for public schools...
- "Second Prize" - 1887 - Gustave CharpentierGustave CharpentierGustave Charpentier, , born in Dieuze, Moselle on 25 June 1860, died Paris, 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise.-Life and career:...
- 1893 - André BlochAndré Bloch (composer)André Bloch was a French composer and music educator. He studied with André Gedalge, Ernest Guiraud, and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1893 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Antigone which used a text by Ferdinand Beissier. The prize enabled him to pursue further studies...
- 1894 - Henri RabaudHenri RabaudHenri Rabaud was a French conductor and composer, who held important posts in the French musical establishment and upheld mainly conservative trends in French music in the first half of the twentieth century....
- 1899 - François Rasse
- 1900 - Florent SchmittFlorent SchmittFlorent Schmitt was a French composer.-Early life:A Lorrainer, born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt originally took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. Subsequently he entered the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois,...
- 1901 - André CapletAndré CapletAndré Caplet was a French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy.-Biography:...
(against Maurice RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
, 3rd Prize) - 1901 - Gabriel DupontGabriel DupontGabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont was a French composer, known for his operas and chamber music.Dupont was born in Caen. Following after his father who was teacher at the Malherbe secondary school and the organist at the Church Saint-Étienne in his home town, at the age of 15, Dupont began his studies...
- "Second Prize" - 1902 - Aymé KuncAymé KuncAymé Kunc was a French composer and administrator, director of the Toulouse Conservatory from 1914 until 1944. He won second prize alongside Maurice Ravel in the Prix de Rome competition of 1902; until 1907 he was the orchestra chief at the Théâtre Apollo in Paris...
- 1902 - Jean Roger-DucasseJean Roger-DucasseJean Jules Amable Roger-Ducasse was a French composer.-Biography:Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Emile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré...
- "Second Prize" - 1902 - Albert Bertelin - "Third Prize"
- 1903 - Raoul Laparra
- 1904 - Raymond-Jean Pech
- 1904 - Paul PiernéPaul PiernéPaul Pierné was a French composer and organist.Born in Metz, he was a cousin of composer and organist Gabriel Pierné. His first musical lessons were from his father Charles, himself a former student of César Franck. Pierné later studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Georges Caussade and...
- "Second Prize" - 1904 - Hélène Fleury-RoyHélène Fleury-RoyHélène Fleury-Gabrielle-Roy was a French composer and the first woman to win the prize for the Prix de Rome composition competition.-Background:...
- "Third Prize" - 1905 - Victor Gallois
- 1905 - Marcel Samuel-RousseauMarcel Samuel-RousseauMarcel Samuel-Rousseau was a French composer, organist, and opera director. He studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1905. He was the organist at Saint-Séverin from 1919–1922 and president of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique...
- "Second Prize" - 1905 - Philippe GaubertPhilippe GaubertPhilippe Gaubert was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer, primarily for the flute....
- "Third Prize" - 1906 - Louis Dumas
- 1907 - Maurice Le BoucherMaurice Le BoucherMaurice Georges Eugène Le Boucher , was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.Le Boucher was born in Isigny-sur-Mer. In 1904, he entered the Paris Conservatory, where he was a student of Gabriel Fauré. In 1907, Le Boucher won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome. Later, he became professor at...
- 1908 - André Gailhard
- 1908 - Louis Dumas
- 1908 - Nadia BoulangerNadia BoulangerNadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...
- "Second Prize" - 1908 - Édouard Flament
- 1909 - Jules Mazellier
- 1909 - Marcel TournierMarcel TournierMarcel Lucien Tournier was a French harpist, composer, and pedagogue who composed important solo repertory for the harp that expanded the technical and harmonic possibilities of the instrument. His works are regularly performed in concert and recorded by professional harpists, and they are often...
- "Second Prize" - 1910 - Noël GallonNoël GallonNoël Gallon was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works and vocal art songs, 10 preludes, a Toccata for piano, a Sonata for flute and bassoon, a Fantasy for piano and orchestra, an Orchestral Suite, and the lyrical drama Paysans et Soldats...
- 1913 - Lili BoulangerLili BoulangerLili Boulanger was a French composer, the younger sister of the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.-Early years:A Parisian-born child prodigy, who was good at piano...
- 1914 - Marcel DupréMarcel DupréMarcel Dupré , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen . Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when...
- 1919 - Jacques IbertJacques IbertJacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.Ibert pursued a successful composing career,...
- "First Grand Prize" - 1923 - Jeanne LeleuJeanne LeleuJeanne Leleu was a French pianist and composer. She was born in Saint-Mihiel and entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of nine, where she studied with Marguerite Long, Georges Caussade, Alfred Cortot and Charles-Marie Widor. With Geneviève Durony, Leleu gave the premiere performance of...
- "First Grand Prize" - 1923 - Robert Bréard - "Second Prize"
- 1929 - Elsa BarraineElsa BarraineElsa Jacqueline Barraine was a French composer. Born in Paris, she was the daughter of cellist Alfred Barraine. She studied with Jean Gallon , Abel Estyle , George Caussade , and Paul Dukas at the Conservatoire de Paris...
- 1934 - Eugène BozzaEugène BozzaEugène Joseph Bozza was a French composer.Bozza studied composition, conducting, and violin at the Paris Conservatoire. He is known primarily for his chamber music. Bozza's work includes five symphonies, operas, ballets, and many pieces for brass ensemble...
- 1936 - Kent KennanKent KennanKent Wheeler Kennan was an American composer, author, educator, and professor....
, Henri ChallanHenri ChallanHenri Challan was a French composer and music educator. He had a long association with the Conservatoire de Paris where he was both a student and a faculty member. He was a pupil of Jean Gallon and Henri Büsser and was appointed a professor of harmony in 1936. That same year he won both the first... - 1938 - Henri DutilleuxHenri DutilleuxHenri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
- 1939 - Pierre Maillard-Verger, Jean-Jacques GrunenwaldJean-Jacques GrunenwaldJean-Jacques Grunenwald , was a French organist, composer, architect, and pedagogue.-Life and work:Jean-Jacques Grunenwald was born in 1911 in Cran-Gevrier, Haute-Savoie. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he received first prizes in organ and composition...
- 1940 - No competition
- 1941 - No competition
- 1942 - Alfred DesenclosAlfred DésenclosAlfred Desenclos was a French composer of classical music. Desenclos was a self-described "romantic" whose music is highly expressive and atmospheric and rooted in rigorous compositional technique....
, Rolande FalcinelliRolande FalcinelliRolande Falcinelli was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Rolande Falcinelli entered the Paris Conservatory in 1932, where her teachers were noted pianist and pedagogue Isidor Philipp and Abel Estyle , Marcel Samuel-Rousseau , Simone Plé Caussade , Henri Büsser , and... - 1943 - Pierre SancanPierre SancanPierre Sancan was a French composer, pianist, teacher and conductor. Along with Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux, he was a major figure among French musicians in the mid-twentieth-century transition between modern and contemporary eras; but outside France his name is almost unknown.Born in...
- 1944 - Raymond Gallois Montbrun
- 1945 - Claude Pascal, Marcel BitschMarcel BitschMarcel Bitsch was a French composer, teacher and analyst. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and also was professor of counterpoint there. In his latter years he concentrated on teaching and analysing the music of J. S...
, Gérard Calvi (Krettly), Charles JayCharles JayCharles Jay was the Presidential nominee of the United States Boston Tea Party in the 2008 United States presidential election. He was the presidential nominee of the Personal Choice Party in the 2004 election, achieving ballot status in Utah, and received 946 votes in the general election, coming... - 1950 - Éveline Plicque-Andrani, Serge Lancen
- 1951 - Charles ChaynesCharles Chaynes- Biography :Chaynes studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier. In 1951 he won the Prix de Rome with the cantata Et l'homme se vit les portes rouvrir...
, Ginette KellerGinette Keller-Biography:Keller studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen. In 1951 she won the Second Prix de Rome with her cantata Et l’Homme vit se rouvrir les portes... - 1952 - Alain Weber, Jean-Michel Defay, Jacques Albrespic
- 1953 - Jacques CastérèdeJacques CastérèdeJacques Castérède is a French composer.He studied at Lycée Buffon in Paris. He gained his baccalaureat in elementary mathematics, before he entered Paris National Conservatory of Music in 1944 and began studying piano under Armand Ferté, composition under Tony Aubin, analysis under Olivier Messiaen...
, Pierick Houdy - 1954 - Roger Boutry
- 1955 - Pierre Max DuboisPierre Max DuboisPierre Max Dubois was a French composer of classical music. He was a student of Darius Milhaud, and though not widely popular, was respected. He brought the ideas of Les Six, of which his instructor was a member, into the middle 1900's. This group called for a fresh artistic perspective on music...
, René Maillard, George Balch WilsonGeorge Balch WilsonGeorge Balch Wilson is an American composer who is particularly known for his contributions to electronic music. In 1955 he won the Prix de Rome for composition. He taught for more than 30 years on the faculty of the University of Michigan where he notably founded and directed the school's... - 1956 - Jean Aubain, Pierre GabayePierre GabayePierre Gabaye was a French composer.His musical tuition began at age seven on the piano, and which led him to pursue a career as a pianist and composer in both the classical and jazz spheres. He studied the piano with Simone Plé-Caussade at the Conservatoire de Paris. He won the 1956 Prix de Rome,...
- 1960 - Gilles Boizard, Jean-Claude Henry
- 1961 - Christian Manen, Pierre Durand
- 1962 - Alain Petitgirard, Antoine Tisné
- 1963 - Yves Cornière, Michel DecoustMichel DecoustMichel Decoust is a French composer and conductor.Decoust studied from 1956 to 1965 with Jean Rivier and Darius Milhaud at the Paris Conservatoire, as well as at the Cologne Courses for New Music in 1964–65, with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...
- 1964 - no first prize, Xavier Darasse
- 1965 - Thérèse BrenetThérèse BrenetThérèse Brenet is a French composer. She studied at the Conservatoire de Reims and the Conservatoire de Paris. Among her teachers were Maurice Duruflé, Henri Dutilleux, Darius Milhaud, and Jean Rivier...
, Lucie Diessel-Robert - 1966 - Monique Cecconi-Botella, Michel Merlet
- 1967 - Michel Rateau, Philippe Dugroz
- 1968 - Alain Louvier, Edith LejetÉdith LejetÉdith Lejet is a French composer and music educator.-Biography:Lejet studied with Marcel Beaufils , Henri Challan , Marcel Bitsch , Jean Rivier and Andre Jolivet at the Paris Conservatory. She lived at the Casa Velasquez in Madrid from 1968 to 1970...
After 1968, the Prix de Rome changed formats and the competition was no longer organised.
See also
- Académie de France RomeFrench Academy in RomeThe French Academy in Rome is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio in Rome, Italy.-History:...
- American Academy in RomeAmerican Academy in RomeThe American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...
- American School of Classical Studies at AthensAmerican School of Classical Studies at AthensThe American School of Classical Studies at Athens is one of 17 foreign archaeological institutes in Athens, Greece.-General information:...
- American Schools of Oriental ResearchAmerican Schools of Oriental ResearchThe American Schools of Oriental Research, founded in 1900, supports and encourages the study of the peoples and cultures of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present. It is apolitical and has no religious affiliation...
- British School at RomeBritish School at RomeThe British School at Rome was established in 1901 and granted a Royal Charter in 1912 as an educational institute in the fields of archaeology, literature, music, and history of Rome and Italy of every period, and for the study of the fine arts and architecture...
- Deutsches Archäologisches Institut RomGerman Archaeological InstituteThe German Archaeological Institute is an institution of research within the field of archaeology , and a "scientific corporation", with parentage of the federal Foreign Office of Germany-Origin:...
- Rome PrizeRome PrizeThe Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists and to 15 scholars The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists...