(French: “Academy of Fine Arts”). Created in 1816 as a division of the Institut de France, the Académie des Beaux-Arts succeeded the pre-Revolutionary Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture. It was very influential in the 19th-century art world as the sponsor of the École des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts), the Prix de Rome, and the annual salon exhibition. Web resource here. See also: academy, Salon.

The Institut de France, Paris. 1662-88.