The Beaux-Arts de Paris, formally the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, is a French grande école whose primary mission is to provide high-level fine arts education and training. The art school, which is part of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is located on two sites: Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, and Saint-Ouen.
The entrance of the Beaux-Arts de Paris with a bust of Nicolas Poussin
Rinaldo and Armida, François Boucher's morceau de réception, gained his admission to the Académie royale in 1734.
Entrance at 14 Rue Bonaparte
Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.
Portrait of David as a youth, c. 1765, by his tutor Joseph-Marie Vien
Mademoiselle Guimard as Terpsichore, 1774–1775, an early work
Equestrian portrait of Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1781)