Prix de Rome

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This article concerns the French government prize. For similarly named prizes aimed at other countries nationals, see Prix de Rome (disambiguation).

The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for art students. It was created in 1663 in France under the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual burse for promising artists (painters, sculptors, and architects) who proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. The prize, organised by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, was open to their students. The award winner would win a stay at the Mancini Palace in Rome at the expense of the King of France. The stay could be extended if the director of the institution deemed it useful.

The contest was organised into four categories - painting, sculpting, architecture and engraving. In 1803, music was added. The winner of the "First Grand Prize" would be sent to The Academy of France in Rome founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1666. There were also "Second Prizes" that allowed participants go to the same academy, albeit for a shorter period of time.

Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Ernest Chausson and Maurice Ravel attempted the Prix de Rome, but did not gain recognition. Jacques-Louis David, 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. Since then, there have been a number of contests on file, and the Academies, together with The Institute of France, were merged by the State and the Minister of Culture. Selected lodgers now have an opportunity for improvement during an 18-month (2 years sometimes) stay at The Academy of France in Rome (presently accommodated by the Villa Médicis.

1 List Of Winners From The Architecture Category
2 List Of Winners From The Painting Category
3 List Of Winners From The Sculpture Category
4 List Of Winners From The Engraving Category
5 List Of Winners From The Musical Composition Category
6 References
7 External links

[edit] List Of Winners From The Architecture Category

1786 - Charles Percier
1823 - Félix Duban
1824 - Henri Labrouste
1833 - Victor Baltard
1840 - Théodore Ballu
1848 - Charles Garnier
1864 - Julien Guadet
1870 - Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas
1878 - Victor Laloux
1880 - Louis Girault
1881 - Henri Deglane
1886 - Albert Louvet - "First Grand Prize" and "Second Prize"
1892 - Guillaume Tronchet
1899 - Tony Garnier
1923 - Jean-Baptiste Mathon
1955 - Ngo Viet Thu

[edit] List Of Winners From The Painting Category

1682 - Hyacinthe Rigaud
1720 - François Boucher
1734 - Jean-Baptiste Pierre
1738 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
1752 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1768 - François-André Vincent
1771 - Joseph-Benoît Suvée
1772 - Pierre-Charles Jombert, Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier - "Second Grand Prize"
1773 - Pierre Peyron
1774 - Jacques-Louis David
1775 - Jean-Baptiste Regnault
1784 - Jean-Germain Drouais
1787 - François-Xavier Fabre
1789 - Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
1790 - Jacques Réattu
1801 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1807 - François Joseph Heim
1808 - Alexandre-Charles Guillemot
1811 - Alexandre-Denis-Joseph Abel
1812 - L.V.L. Pallière
1813 - François-Edouard Picot^[1]
1832 - Antoine Wiertz
1837 - Thomas Couture
1844 - Félix-Joseph Barrias
1849 - Gustave Boulanger
1850 - William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry
1858 - Jean-Jacques Henner
1861 - Jules Joseph Lefebvre
1865 - André Hennebicq
1866 - Henri Regnault ^[2]
1868 - Édouard-Théophile Blanchard^[3]
1874 - Paul-Albert Besnard^[4]
1880 - Henri Lucien Doucet
1884 - Edouard Cabane - "Second Prize"
1891 - Hubert-Denis Etcheverry - "Second Prize"
1906 - Albert Henry Krehbiel
1910 - Jean Dupas
1924 - René-Marie Castaing
1925 - Odette Pauvert - First "First Grand Prize" obtained by a woman
1930 - Salvatore DeMaio
1948 - John Heliker
1950 - Paul Collomb - "First Grand Prize" and "Second Prize"
1960 - Pierre Carron

[edit] List Of Winners From The Sculpture Category

[edit] List Of Winners From The Engraving Category

The engravery prize was created in 1804 and suppressed in 1968 by André Malraux, the minister of the Culture.

1906 - Henry Cheffer
1910 - Jules Piel
1911 - Albert Decaris
1921 - Pierre Gandon
1952 - Claude Durrens

[edit] List Of Winners From The Musical Composition Category

1803 - Albert Androt
1804 - no Grand Prize awarded
1805 - Ferdinand Gasse ("first" First Grand Prize) and Victor Dourlen ("second" First Grand Prize)
1806 - Victor Bouteiller
1807 - no Grand Prize awarded
1808 - Pierre-Auguste-Louis Blondeau
1809 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul
1810 - Désiré Beaulieu
1811 - Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard
1812 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold ("first" First Grand Prize) and Félix Cazot ("second" First Grand Prize)
1813 - Auguste Panseron
1814 - P.-G. Roll
1815 - François Benoist
1816 - no Grand Prize awarded
1817 - Désiré-Alexandre Batton
1818 - no Grand Prize awarded
1819 - Fromental Halévy ("first" First Grand Prize) and P.-J.-P.-C. Massin-Turina ("second" First Grand Prize)
1820 - Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne
1821 - L.-V.-E. Rifaut
1822 - J.-A. Lebourgeois
1823 - E. Boilly and L.-C. Ermel
1824 - A.-M.-B. Barbereau
1825 - A. Guillion
1826 - C.-J. Paris
1827 - J.-B.-L. Guiraud
1828 - G. Ross-Despréaux
1829 - no Grand Prize awarded
1830 - Hector Berlioz ("first" First Grand Prize) and Alexandre Montfort ("second" First Grand Prize)
1831 - Eugène-Prosper Prévost
1832 - Ambroise Thomas
1833 - A. Thys
1834 - A. Elwart
1835 - Ernest Boulanger
1836 - X. Boisselot
1837 - Louis Désiré Besozzi
1838 - A.-G.-J. Bousquet
1839 - Charles Gounod
1840 - F.E.V. Bazin
1841 - L. Maillard
1842 - A.-A. Roger
1843 - no Grand Prize awarded
1844 - Victor Massé
1845 - no Grand Prize awarded
1846 - Léon Gastinel
1847 - P.-L. Deffès
1848 - J.-L.-A. Duprato
1849 - no Grand Prize awarded
1850 - J.-A. Charlot
1851 - J.-C.-A. Delehelle
1852 - L. Cohen
1853 - P.-C.-C. Galibert
1854 - G.-N. Barthe
1855 - J. Conte
1856 - no Grand Prize awarded
1857 - Georges Bizet
1858 - S. David
1859 - Ernest Guiraud
1860 - Emile Paladilhe
1861 - Théodore Dubois
1862 - L. Bourgault-Ducoudray
1863 - Jules Massenet
1864 - Victor Sieg
1865 - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu
1866 - Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard - "1st Harmony Prize"
1867 - no prize awarded
1868 - V.-A. Pelletier-Rabuteau and E. Wintzweiller
1869 - Antoine Taudou
1870 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre and Henri Maréchal
1871 - Gaston Serpette
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 Hüe
1880 - Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher
1881 - no Grand Prize awarded
1882 - Georges Marty
1883 - Paul Vidal
1884 - Claude Debussy
1885 - Xavier Leroux
1886 - André Gedalge - "Second Prize"
1887 - Gustave Charpentier
1894 - Henri Rabaud
1900 - Florent Schmitt
1901 - André Caplet
1901 - Gabriel Dupont
1901 - Maurice Ravel
1902 - Aymé Kunc
1902 - Roger Ducasse
1902 - Albert Bertelin
1903 - Raoul Laparra
1904 - Raymond-Jean Pech
1904 - Paul Pierné
1904 - Hélène Fleury-Roy
1905 - Victor Gallois
1905 - Marcel Samuel-Rousseau
1905 - Philippe Gaubert
1906 - Louis Dumas
1907 - Maurice Le Boucher
1908 - André Gailhard
1908 - Louis Dumas
1908 - Nadia Boulanger - "Second Prize"
1908 - Édouard Flament
1909 - Jules Mazellier
1909 - Marcelle Tournier
1913 - Lili Boulanger
1914 - Marcel Dupré
1919 - Jacques Ibert - "First Grand Prize"
1923 - Jeanne Leleu - "First Grand Prize"
1923 - Robert Bréard - "Second Prize"
1934 - Eugène Bozza
1935 - Samuel Barber
1938 - Henri Dutilleux
1953 - Jacques Castérède
1955 - Pierre Max Dubois

[edit] References

^ The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature, Pierre Bourdieu, p. 215, ISBN 0231082878, 1993, Columbia University Press
^ 1911 Encyclopedia
^ The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-arts, Paris, 2005, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300109180
^ The New International Year Book, Published 1966. Dodd, Mead and Co.P 86