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AT-00011531The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
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.
Exhibition history
French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Delaroche (French, 1797–1856)
- Date
- 1841 or 1842
- Medium
- pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2008.346
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