The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French grande école whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. 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.
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier was a French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille.
Luc-Olivier Merson was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs.
Louis-Ernest Barrias was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school. In 1865 Barrias won the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome.
Jean Alaux, called "le Romain", was a French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome from 1846–52.
Louis Candide Boulanger was a French Romantic painter, pastellist, lithographer and a poet, known for his religious and allegorical subjects, portraits, genre scenes.
École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Pierre Henri Révoil was a French painter in the troubadour style.
The École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon is a school of art and design in Lyon, located in Les Subsistances, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, in the Rhône-Alpes region of France. It is part of the École des Beaux-Arts tradition, that established the Beaux-Arts architecture style.
Jean Alexis Achard (1807–1884) was a French painter.
Claude Bonnefond, or Jean-Claude Bonnefond was a French painter and lithographer; noted for his portrayals of peasant life. His work was heavily influenced by a visit to Italy.
Victor François Tardieu was a French painter; cofounder of what is now known as the Vietnam University of Fine Arts.
Paul Jean Flandrin was a French painter. He was the younger brother of the painters Auguste Flandrin and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin.
François-Nicolas Chifflart was a French painter, illustrator and etcher.
Édouard Toudouze (1848-1907) was a French painter, illustrator, and decorative artist.
Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet was a French painter and engraver, best known for his historical and costume genre scenes.
Jean-François Bony was a French painter, draftsman, embroiderer, silk manufacturer, and flower painter. A talented artist, his designs include studies of a dress and mantle proposed for the wearing of Josephine de Beauharnais at the coronation of Napoleon. Bony was active before, during and after the French Revolution, also designing fabrics for Marie Antoinette, Empress Marie Louise and Napoleon himself.
Henri-Achille Zo was a French painter and illustrator of Basque ancestry. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Michel Dumas was a French painter, primarily of religious subjects.
Louis Henri Deschamps was a French painter born on 25 May 1846 in Montélimar, (Drome); died 8 August 1902 in Montélimar.
