The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abolished in
A meeting of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the Louvre Palace (c. 1712–21) by Jean-Baptiste Martin
The Embarkation for Cythera, 1717, was Antoine Watteau's reception piece for the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
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The Académie des Beaux-Arts is a French learned society based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. As of 2025, the president of the academy is Coline Serreau, a French
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
…the Académie de Musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'Architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671), to form the Académie des Beaux-Arts, one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The history of the early Académie royale is given in great detail by a contemporary who was…
The Institut de France; seat of the Académie des Beaux-Arts