# List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Painting

This is a list of past and present members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Section I: Painting.

## Seat #1

* elected 1795: Gérard van Spaendonck (1746–1822)
* 1822: Louis Hersent (1777–1860)
* 1860: Émile Signol (1804–1892)
* 1892: Luc-Olivier Merson (1846–1920)
* 1921: Paul Chabas (1869–1937)
* 1938: Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940)
* 1941: Pierre Eugène Montézin (1874–1946)
* 1947: Charles Fouqueray (1871–1956)
* 1957: Yves Brayer (1907–1990)
This seat was transferred to section VII in 1998.

## Seat #2

* 1795: François-André Vincent (1746–1816)
* 1816: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1763–1823)
* 1823: Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (1758–1846)
* 1846: Jacques Raymond Brascassat (1804–1867)
* 1867: Louis-Nicolas Cabat (1812–1893)
* 1893: Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902)
* 1902: Ferdinand Humbert (1842–1934)
* 1935: Émile Aubry (1880–1964)
* 1966: Félix Labisse (1905–1982)
* 1990: Pierre Carron (1932–2022)

## Seat #3

* 1795: Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829)
* 1829: François-Joseph Heim (1787–1865)
* 1865: Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904)
* 1904: Carolus-Duran (1838–1917)
* 1919: Ernest Laurent (1859–1929)
* 1930: Henri Le Sidaner (1862–1939)
* 1941: Jean Dupas (1882–1964)
This seat was eliminated in 1967.

## Seat #4

* 1795: Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (1755–1830)
* 1830: François Marius Granet (1779–1849)
* 1850: Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797–1890)
* 1890: François-Louis Français (1814–1897)
* 1897: Antoine Vollon (1833–1900)
* 1900: Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852–1929)
* 1930: Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875–1932)
* 1932: Georges Paul Leroux [fr] (1877–1957)
* 1958: Georges Cheyssial [fr] (1907–1997)
* 1999: Olivier Debré (1920–1999)
* 2001: Jean Cortot (1925–2018)

## Seat #5

* 1803: Vivant Denon (1747–1825)
* 1825: Jean-Dominique Ingres (1781–1867)
* 1867: Alexandre Hesse (1806–1879)
* 1879: Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828–1891)
* 1891: Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1834–1911)
* 1912: Paul-Albert Besnard (1849–1934)
* 1935: Fernand Sabatté (1874–1940)
* 1941: Louis-François Biloul (1874–1947)
* 1948: Edmond Heuzé [fr] (1889–1967)
* 1968: Georges Rohner [fr] (1913–2000)
* 2015: Philippe Garel [fr] (born 1945)

## Seat #6

* 1803: Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751–1818)
* 1818: Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (1760–1832)
* 1832: Merry-Joseph Blondel (1781–1853)
* 1853: Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809–1864)
* 1864: Charles Louis Müller (1815–1892)
* 1892: Édouard Detaille (1848–1912)
* 1913: Marcel Baschet (1862–1941)
* 1942: Robert Poughéon (1886–1955)
* 1955: Alfred Giess [fr] (1901–1973)
* 1975: Georges Mathieu (1921–2012)
* 2017: Gérard Garouste (born 1946)

## Seat #7

* 1809: François-Guillaume Ménageot (1744–1816)
* 1816: Étienne-Barthélémy Garnier (1759–1849)
* 1849: Léon Cogniet (1794–1880)
* 1881: Léon Bonnat (1833–1922)
* 1923: Jean-Louis Forain (1852–1931)
* 1932: Maurice Denis (1870–1943)
* 1945: Paul Jouve (1878–1973)
* 1974: Bernard Buffet (1928–1999)
* 2005: Vladimir Veličković (1935–2019)
* 2021: Ernest Pignon-Ernest (born 1942)

## Seat #8

* 1812: François Gérard (1770–1837)
* 1837: Jean-Victor Schnetz (1787–1870)
* 1870: Paul Baudry (1828–1886)
* 1886: Jules Breton (1827–1906)
* 1906: Gabriel Ferrier (1847–1914)
* 1917: Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (1860–1943)
* 1944: Gustave Louis Jaulmes (1873–1959)
* 1960: André Planson (1898–1981)
* 1983: Jean Bertholle (1909–1996)
* 1997: Guy de Rougemont (1935–2021)

## Seat #9

* 1816: Pierre Guérin (1774–1833)
* 1833: Michel Martin Drolling (1786–1851)
* 1851: Jean Alaux (1786–1864)
* 1864: Henri Lehmann (1814–1882)
* 1882: Gustave Boulanger (1824–1888)
* 1888: Gustave Moreau (1826–1898)
* 1898: Aimé Morot (1850–1913)
* 1913: Henri Gervex (1852–1929)
* 1929: André Devambez (1867–1944)
* 1945: Willem van Hasselt (1882–1963)
* 1965: Édouard Goerg [fr] (1893–1969)
* 1969: Jacques Despierre (1912–1995)
* 1997: Chu Teh-Chun (1926–2014)
* 2018: Fabrice Hyber [fr] (born 1961)

## Seat #10

* 1803: Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825)
* 1816: Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738–1826)
* 1826: Horace Vernet (1789–1863)
* 1863: Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889)
* 1889: Jean-Jacques Henner (1829–1905)
* 1905: Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925)
* 1926: Émile-René Ménard (1862–1930)
* 1930: George Desvallières (1861–1950)
* 1951: Jean Bouchaud (1891–1977)
* 1977: Jean Carzou (1907–2000)
* 2002: Zao Wou-Ki (1921–2013)
* 2016: Jean-Marc Bustamante (born 1952)

## Seat #11

* 1816: Anne-Louis Girodet (1767–1824)
* 1825: Charles Thévenin (1764–1838)
* 1838: Jérôme-Martin Langlois (1779–1838)
* 1839: Auguste Couder (1790–1873)
* 1874: Ernest Hébert (1817–1908)
* 1909: Raphaël Collin (1850–1916)
* 1918: Adolphe Déchenaud (1868–1926)
* 1929: Lucien Simon (1861–1945)
* 1946: Jean Souverbie [fr] (1891–1981)
* 1984: Arnaud d'Hauterives [fr] (1933–2018)
* 2020: Catherine Meurisse (born 1980)

## Seat #12

* 1816: Antoine Gros (1771–1835)
* 1835: Abel de Pujol (1787–1861)
* 1861: Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815–1891)
* 1891: Jean-Paul Laurens (1838–1921)
* 1921: Jules-Alexis Muenier (1863–1942)
* 1943: René-Xavier Prinet (1861–1946)
* 1946: Nicolas Untersteller (1900–1967)
* 1968: Roger Chastel (1897–1981)
* 1982: Georges Wakhévitch (1907–1984)
This seat was transferred to section VII in 1987.

## Seat #13

* 1816: Charles Meynier (1768–1832)
* 1832: Paul Delaroche (1797–1856)
* 1857: Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
* 1863: Nicolas-Auguste Hesse (1795–1869)
* 1869: Jules Eugène Lenepveu (1819–1898)
* 1898: Fernand Cormon (1845–1924)
* 1924: Edgar Maxence (1871–1954)
* 1955: Lucien Fontanarosa (1912–1975)
* 1977: Hans Hartung (1904–1989)
* 1991: Jean Dewasne [fr] (1921–1999)
* 2001: Yves Millecamps [fr] (born 1930)

## Seat #14

* 1816: Carle Vernet (1758–1836)
* 1836: François-Édouard Picot (1786–1868)
* 1868: Isidore Pils (1815–1875)
* 1876: William Bouguereau (1825–1905)
* 1905: François Flameng (1856–1923)
* 1923: Emile Friant (1863–1932)
* 1933: Paul Albert Laurens (1870–1934)
* 1935: Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942)
* 1943: Louis-Marie Désiré-Lucas (1869–1949)
* 1950: Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889–1962)
* 1964: Jean Lurçat (1892–1966)
This seat was eliminated in 1967.

## Sources

* List of members @ the Académie des Beaux-Arts website.