Academic Paintings
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
Landscape With Washerwoman
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LEVIGNE Théodore (1848-1912)
Landscape With Washerwoman
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old Frame regilded with leaves
Dimensions canvas : 55 X 73 cm
Dimensions frame : 70 X 85 cm
LE...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bunch of Roses with Chinese Vase
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MONNOT Maurice Louis (1869-1937)
Bunch of Roses with Chinese Vase
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 61 X 50 cm
Dim Frame : 90 X 80 cm
MONNOT Maurice Louis (1869-1937)
French painter 19th – 20th century
Born the 22th of October 1869 in Paris. Dead in 1937
Painter of interior and still lives. He was the pupil of Joseph Bail...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Brothel, Groovy Harem with Courtesan, Concubine, Paramour, Playboy Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
George Hirsch - He gets his inspiration from the prototype of neo-classic painting for this groovy 1970s brothel. This is a complex figural work with m...
Category
1970s Academic Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$16,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a Lady With Hat
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
WATELET, Charles Joseph (1867 - 1954)
Portrait of a Lady with Hat
Oil on oval canvas signed up right and dated 1909
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canv...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting 19th Century Fox Hunting Scene With Characters Horses and Dogs
By Joseph August Knip
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
KNIP August (1819 - 1859)
Starting Fox Hunting day in Baden-Baden
Oil on canvas signed low right dated 1837
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 81 X 118 cm
Dim frame :...
Category
1830s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
A.Bachman (1863-1956), painting view of Venice
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BACHMANN Alfred Félix August (1863-1956)
Lively view of Venice
Oil on wood panel signed low left
Old frame regilded with gold leaves
Dim wood : 24 X 34 cm
Dim frame : 38 X 48 cm
BA...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady in paris Street 1900
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LEBAS Léonie (19th-20th)
"Lady in Paris Street 1900"
Oil on wood panel signed low right
Old Frame regilded with gold leaves
Dim panel : 16 X 22 cm
Dim frame : 50 X 41 cm
LEBAS Léoni...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady at Dressing Table - Original Painting
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
"Lady at dressing table"
Oil on canvas signed and dated right below 1929
Old original frame gild with leaves
Dim canvas : 72 x 56 cm
Dim frame : 92 X 80 cm
ENJOLRAS Delphin (1857-...
Category
1920s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harbour with Characters
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Follower of Emile Jean Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863)
Marine Harbour With Characters
Oil on canvas signed low left - Signature to read
Old frame gilded with leaves
Size canvas : 4...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the Bazaar II
Located in New York, NY
In the Bazaar II, 1834-1855, by Theodore Frere (1814-1888)
Oil on wood
7 x 5 inches unframed (17.78 x 12.7 cm)
10 ⅝ x 9 inches framed (26.9875 x 22.86 cm)
Signed on lower right
Desc...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
A French 19th-20th Century Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand Player Smoking Pipe"
Located in LA, CA
Émile Renard (French, 1850-1930) A Fine and Charming Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand", depicting a joyous seated man, smoking a pipe, showing his Poker hand of cards. Within a carve...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Faistenau" oil painting of snow covered landscape Salzkammergut steeple
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Plein-air landscape painting of Faistenau, in Austria. A snow covered foreground meets a structure filled horizon, a church tower reaches upward, dissecting the blue sky.
Frame opt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Torah Scholar, Shimshon Holzman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986)
Title: Torah Scholar
Year: 1962
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Size: 13.75 x 19.75 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed...
Category
1960s Academic Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Wheels of Industry Past and Present, Golden Age of Illustration - Standard Oil
Located in Miami, FL
This Golden Age of Illustration painting juxtaposes modern and ancient industrial practices. Giant eclectic generators from the current ti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Pasture with Cows
By Rémy Cogghe
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Mouscron in the Belgian province of Hainaut, Cogghe attended the Academy of Roubaix where he studied under Constantin Mils. In 1876, Cogghe was admitted to the École Nation...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le pont de Saint Gérmain de Couilly (sur le Grand Morin)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Salon, Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1879 (no. 647)
Category
1870s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Swing - Romantic Scene in the Garden
By Antonio Cerveto
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CERVETO RIBA Antonio (1876-1938)
"The swing"
Oil on canvas signed low right
Gault frame (Paris)
Dim canvas : 60 X 80 cm
Dim frame : 81 X 102 cm
CERVETO RIB...
Category
1920s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Break at the Inn for the Rural Policeman 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
DE LAUNEY Fernand (19th Century)
Break at the Inn for the Rural Policeman
Oil on Wood Panel signed Low Left
Old frame gilded with Leaves
Dim wood : 33 X 41 cm
Dim frame : 48 X 56 cm...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pretending (The Great Performance)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1890' lower right
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Miss Carolyn Edmunson
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
The art world today does not value traditional academic skills in portrait painting. If it did, this portrait would replace the childlike student-level art that is now achieving two...
Category
1930s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Women with Resting Minotaur
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil Painting of a women with a sleeping Minotaur.
Light neutral white painting by Cuban Artist Jesus Nordarse.
18 x 18 inches.
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Lady in Middle-Age Suits, Pastel 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
FANTIN LATOUR Theodore (1805 – 1875)
« Young Lady dressed with middle-age suit »
Pastel on card signed low right
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim pastel : 80 X 63 cm
Dim fr...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Love
the Jester - Oil Painting of Sacrifice
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil Painting of a Love and Sacrafice by Cuban Artist Jesus Nordarse.
Oil on Canvas. 18 x 18 inches.
THE MAN: Jesús Nodarse Valdés was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba in 1973. He studi...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
Painting 19th Century Landscape Antique Ruins
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BACHMANN Alfred Félix August (1863-1956)
Walking by the Antique Ruins
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 54 X 65 ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School 18th Century - Seaside Landscape With Roman Ruins and Galleon
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French School 18th Century
In the taste of Joseph VERNET (1714-1789)
Seaside Landscape with Roman Ruins and Galleon
Oil on canvas
Old Frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 61 X 73...
Category
Late 18th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pretending (Lunch from the Café)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1910' lower right
Category
1910s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Sideways Glance
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed with monogram lower right
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Royal Academy, London, 1880, no. 355 (as Summer)
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leaves II, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Leaves II" is an oil painting that depicts yellow Fall leaves with a cream colored background
Elizabeth Zanzinger is an award-winning painter with an enthusiastic international following. She developed her artistic voice through her studies at the Aristides Atelier and Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle. Elizabeth finished her education with a fellowship award (Grand Prize, 2nd Annual Utrecht Art...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Calligraphy 1
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in 1969
1991, Graduated top of his class at Iranian Society of Calligraphy, Tehran
1993, Graduated from the Wood Industry & Paper-making, Tehran
Sol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Formal Portrait of a Chinese Man in Traditional Dress
Located in Miami, FL
Dressed in traditional clothing, a handsome Chinese man is depicted as he sits resolutely with one hand on his leg and the other holding a baton. Female Artist Joyce Ballantyne...
Category
1940s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
GRISAILLE 19th Century - Cherubs Are Playing Music
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GRISAILLE 19th Century (anonymous)
Cherubs asleep
Part of "Rococo Style" made famous by François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
Oil on canvas Circa 1850
Frame re-gilded
Dim canvas : 50 X 70 c...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Riva d
Arno in Florence
Located in Roma, RM
Domenico Bresolin (Padua 1813 - Venice 1890), Riva d'Arno in Florence
Oil on canvas applied to cardboard 26 x 40 cm. Not signed.
INFO: to get more information
Publications:
D. Ri...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Landscape of Mountains
By MOSNY Henry
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MOSNY Henry (19th Century)
Landscape of Mountains
Oil on canvas signed below and dated 1882
Black and Golden wood Frame
Dim canvas : 73 X 92 cm
Dim Frame : 92 X 112 cm
MOSNY Henry (...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
A.POURFILET - Original Painting Early 20th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A.POURFILET (19th-20th Century)
Still life with Peaches and Grapes
Oil on card signed low left
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim card : 33 X 41 cm
Dim frame : 50 X 58 cm
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Venice
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
AUGUSTE BOUVARD 1882-1956
Pseudo : Mard ALDINE
View of Venice with characters
Oil on canvas signed low right "Aldine"
Framed by Gault (Paris Fbg St-Honoré)
Dim canvas : 50 X 65 cm
D...
Category
1930s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sophie Holten (1858-1930), the Parthenon Frieze, London 1901
Located in Greding, DE
Painting based on the Peplos scene (Block V, eastern Parthenon frieze, ca. 447-433 BC) by the Danish painter Sophie Holten (1858 Skuldelev - 1930 Rosk...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Landscape By The Mountain Stream
By MOSNY Henry
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MOSNY Henry (19th Century)
Landscape by the mountain Stream
Oil on canvas signed below and dated 1882
Black and Golden wood Frame
Dim canvas : 73 X 92 cm
Dim Frame : 94 X 113 cm
MOS...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Rentrée du Troupeau en Plaine de Barbizon
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jean-Ferdinand Chaigneau was born in the shipping center of Bordeaux on March 6th, 1830. There he studied drawing under the academic painter Jean-Paul Alaux (1788-1858). In 1847...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Etienne Billet Portrait of William H. Fitch Oil on Canvas
Located in Astoria, NY
Etienne Billet (French, 1821-1888), Portrait of William Harold Fitch, Oil on Canvas laid on Board, circa 1870, signed mid left, inscribed "William Harold Fitch / of Marseilles France...
Category
1870s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
BARRIER Gustave - Painting Bunch of Flowers
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BARRIER Gustave (1871-1953)
Bunch of Flowers
Oil on card signed upper left
Old original frame re-gilded with gold leaves
Dim card : 56 X 46 cm
Dim fr...
Category
1930s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the diner
Located in Roma, RM
Antonio Maria Fabrés y Costa (Barcelona 1854 - Rome 1938), In the Restaurant (1880)
Oil painting on panel 14 x 21 cm signed and dated on the right.
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th Century Painting Puppet theatre
By Paul Louis Martin des Amoignes
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MARTIN DES AMOIGNES, Paul Louis (1850-1925)
Puppet theatre on the village square
Oil on canvas signed low right
Dated 14th of July 1884
Old original f...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rochefort Harbour in early 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Richard FAXON (1816 - 1875)
Rochefort Harbour with Galleons
Oil on canvas signed low right
New golden frame
Size canvas 73 X 50 cm
Size frame 69 X 95 cm
FAXON Richard (1816-1875)
...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition of Roses With Lute and score
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GODCHAUX Emile (1860)
Big Composition of roses with
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 90 X 129 cm
Dim frame : 118 x 159 cm
GODCHAUX Emile (1860 - nc)
French School - 19th century - Born in 1860
Painter of genre scenes, landscapes, waterscapes, marines, flowers, still lives. He sold his paintings on the public place, and sometimes in Lotteries. He is related to Alfred Godchaux...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape of the Valley in French Normandy
By Eugène Jules Delahogue
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
DELAHOGUE Eugène Jules (1867-c1930)
" Landscape of the Valley"
Oil on canvas signed low right Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 91 X 150 cm Dim frame : 110 X 172 cm
DELAHOGUE Eu...
Category
1910s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Calligraphy 2
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in 1969
1991, Graduated top of his class at Iranian Society of Calligraphy, Tehran
1993, Graduated from the Wood Industry & Paper-making, Tehran
Sol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ramaz Chantladze - Untitled 12
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Ramaz Chantladze is a Georgian artist was born in 1960 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied at Jacob Nikoladze School of Art. In 1979-1985 he studied at...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt 17
century Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing painting of Cleopatra oil on canvas with a gilt wood frame.
Attributed to Giuseppe Diamantini (Fossombrone 1621-Venice 1705)
The dramat...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt 17
century Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing painting of Cleopatra oil on canvas with a gilt wood frame.
Attributed to Giuseppe Diamantini (Fossombrone 1621-Venice 1705)
The dramatic subje...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nymphs and Cherubs in the Park
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Henri Paul ROLLAND (1891-1923)
Nymphs and cherubs in the Park
Oil on Wood panel signed low right
Golden frame
Size canvas : 70 X 81 cm
Size frame : 90 X 100 cm
ROLLAND Henri Paul(...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Musical Performance oil on panel by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
Located in New York, NY
The Musical Performance by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
An italian genre painting showcasing two boys playing a trumpet and a guitar for their sist...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Board
Children
s Book Cover - Mid-Century Blond Girl - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Female Illustrator Barbara Briggs Bradley was an in-demand illustrator in the 1950s. Merrill Publishers of their famous children's books hired Barbara Briggs Bradley to d...
Category
1950s Academic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
Edgard CUGNOTET - Painting 19th Century - Portrait of Two Children
By Edouard Ferdinand Ludovic Cugnotet
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CUGNOTET Edgard (19th Century)
Portrait of two Children
Oil on canvas signed low left and dated 1884
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 138 X 100 cm
Dim Frame : 162 X 122 cm
CUGNOTET Edgard Ferdinand Ludovic (19th Century)
French painter 19th Century born in Dijon
Figures, Portraits, Landscapes
He was taught by François Édouard PICOT (1786-1868) royal Academy of Anvers.
He exhibited at the Salon de Paris between 1868 and 1884.
Museum : Langres « the hurdy gurdy...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Saint Vaast la Hougue
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Mais où se cache le Soleil ?!
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Docteur Jeckyll and Mr Hide
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Swing des Orangés
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Rentrez Chez Vous Braves Gens !
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - De ma Fenêtre
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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