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Source Description
This sketch records a meeting of the jury of the Rome Prize, an annual award for promising students given by the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. The prize included a scholarship for several years of study in Rome amid treasures of ancient and Renaissance art. The Rome Prize long represented the first important step toward developing a solid official career as a painter in France. Although most of the men sketched here are unrecognizable, the one closest to the left appears to be the painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). The identification allows us to correct the date of 1843 inscribed at the bottom of the drawing, for we know that Ingres did not participate as a jury member in 1843. Instead the sketch must date to 1841 or 1842.
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Document identity
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166624
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The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize
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166624
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drawing
title
The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize
description
This sketch records a meeting of the jury of the Rome Prize, an annual award for promising students given by the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. The prize included a scholarship for several years of study in Rome amid treasures of ancient and Renaissance art. The Rome Prize long represented the first important step toward developing a solid official career as a painter in France. Although most of the men sketched here are unrecognizable, the one closest to the left appears to be the painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). The identification allows us to correct the date of 1843 inscribed at the bottom of the drawing, for we know that Ingres did not participate as a jury member in 1843. Instead the sketch must date to 1841 or 1842.
date
1841 or 1842
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79997128
creators
1709
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 16.4 x 29.2 cm (6 7/16 x 11 1/2 in.); Secondary Support: 28.4 x 42.9 cm (11 3/16 x 16 7/8 in.)
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France, 19th century
accession
2008.346
Source extras
tec
pen and brown ink
tombstone
The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize, 1841 or 1842. Paul Delaroche (French, 1797–1856). Pen and brown ink; sheet: 16.4 x 29.2 cm (6 7/16 x 11 1/2 in.); secondary support: 28.4 x 42.9 cm (11 3/16 x 16 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.346
supportMaterials
description
cream modern laid paper, laid down on beige wove paper
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
lower center, in graphite: PaulDelaroche / 1843; secondary support, left center, in graphite: Ingres-=; lower center, in black ink: Les membres de l'academie des beaux arts assemblés / en jury des prix de Rome.; lower right, in black ink: Paul De la Roche.
citations
citation
Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. <em>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page_number
Referenced: cat. no. 32, p. 72-73, Reproduced: p. 73
citation
Marchetti, Elena, and Stéphane Paccoud. <em>Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste: lLs Flandrin, Artistes et Frères.</em> [Lyon]: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; [Paris]: In Fine, 2021.
page_number
Mentioned: P. 57; Reproduced: P. 55, fig. 15
creditline
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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2026-05-29 08:36:17.264000
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166624
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Drawings
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DR - French
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pen and brown ink
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male
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0
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