Prix de Rome

Palazzo Mancini, Rome, the seat of the Académie since 1725. Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1752.

The Villa Medici as it looks today.

The Prix de Rome (pronounced: [pʁi də ʁɔm]) was a scholarship for arts students. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. The prize, organised by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture), was open to their students. From 1666, the award winner could win a stay of three to five years at the Palazzo Mancini in Rome at the expense of the King of France. In 1720, the Académie Royale d’Architecture began a prize in architecture. Six painters, four sculptors, and two architects^[1] would be sent to the French Academy in Rome founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert from 1666.

Expanded after 140 years into five categories, the contest started in 1663 as two categories: painting and sculpture. Architecture was added in 1720. In 1803, music was added, and after 1804 there was a prix for engraving as well. The primary winner took the "First Grand Prize" (called the agréé)^[2] and the "Second Prizes" were awarded to the runners-up.

In 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte moved the French Academy in Rome to the Villa Medici with the intention of preserving an institution once threatened by the French Revolution. At first, the villa and its gardens were in a sad state, and they had to be renovated in order to house the winners of the Prix de Rome. In this way, he hoped to retain for young French artists the opportunity to see and copy the masterpieces of antiquity and the Renaissance.

Jacques-Louis David, having failed to win the prize three years in a row, considered suicide. Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Ernest Chausson and Maurice Ravel attempted the Prix de Rome, but did not gain recognition. 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, who was Minister of Culture at the time. Since then, a number of contests have been created, and the academies, together with the Institut de France, were merged by the State and the Minister of Culture. Selected residents now have an opportunity for study during an 18-month (sometimes 2-year) stay at The Academy of France in Rome, which is accommodated in the Villa Medici.

The heyday of the Prix de Rome was during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.^[3] It was later imitated by the Prix Abd-el-Tif and the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers, 1907–1961, and later Prix d'Indochine including a bursary to visit the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi, 1920–1939, and bursary for residence at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, 1929–present.

Winners in the Architecture category

The Prix de Rome in Architecture was created in 1720.

Eighteenth Century

Notes

Nineteenth Century

Notes

• 1830 – Pierre-Joseph Garrez first prize, Alphonse-François-Joseph Girard second prize
• 1831 – Prosper Morey first prize, Jean-Arnoud Léveil second prize
• 1832 – Jean-Arnoud Léveil first prize, François-Joseph Nolau second prize
• 1833 – Victor Baltard
• 1834 – Paul-Eugène Lequeux first prize, Nicolas-Auguste Thumeloup second prize, Alphonse-Augustin Finiels third prize
• 1835 – Charles Victor Famin first prize, Alexis Paccard and Jean-Baptiste Guenepin second prize
• 1836 – François-Louis-Florimond Boulanger and Jean-Jacques Clerget first prize, Antoine Isidore Eugène Godebœuf second prize
• 1837 – Jean-Baptiste Guenepin
• 1838 – Toussaint Uchard first prize, Auguste-Joseph Magne second prize
• 1839 – Hector Lefuel
• 1840 – Théodore Ballu
• 1841 – Alexis Paccard first prize, Jacques-Martin Tétaz second prize
• 1842 – Philippe-Auguste Titeux first prize, Prosper Desbuisson and Louis-Etienne Lebelin second prize, Albert-François-Germain Delaage third prize
• 1843 – Jacques-Martin Tétaz first prize, Pierre-Joseph Dupont and Louis-Jules André second prize
• 1844 – Prosper Desbuisson first prize, Charles Jean Lainé second prize with Agis-Léon Ledru, Eugène Démangeat third prize
• 1845 – Félix Thomas first prize, Pierre Trémaux and Charles-Auguste-Philippe Lainé second prize
• 1846 – Alfred-Nicolas Normand first prize, Thomas-Augustin Monge and Jacques-Louis-Florimond Ponthieu second prize
• 1847 – Louis-Jules André
• 1848 – Charles Garnier
• 1849 – Denis Lebouteux first prize, Gabriel-Jean-Antoine Davioud second prize, Paul-Renè-Léon Ginain third prize
• 1850 – Victor Louvet
• 1851 – Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet first prize, Michel-Achille Triquet second prize, Joseph-Alfred Chapelain third prize
• 1852 – P.R.L. Ginain
• 1853 – Arthur-Stanislas Diet first prize, Georges-Ernest Coquart second prize, Pierre-Jérôme-Honoré Daumet third prize
• 1854 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer
• 1855 – Honoré Daumet
• 1856 – Edmond Guillaume first prize, Constant Moyaux second prize
• 1857 – Joseph Heim first prize, Ernest Moreau second prize
• 1858 – Georges-Ernest Coquart, Eugène Train second prize
• 1859 – Charles Thierry and Louis Boitte first prize
• 1860 – Joseph Louis Achille Joyau first prize, Bénard second prize, Julien Guadet third prize
• 1861 – Constant Moyaux
• 1862 – François-Wilbrod Chabrol
• 1863 – Emmanuel Brune
• 1864 – Julien Guadet
• 1865 – Louis Noguet and Gustave Gerhardt first prize
• 1866 – Jean-Louis Pascal
• 1867 – Henri Jean Émile Bénard
• 1868 – Charles Alfred Leclerc
• 1869 – Ferdinand Dutert
• 1870 – Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas
• 1871 – Émile Ulmann
• 1872 – Stanislas Louis Bernier
• 1873 – Marcel Lambert
• 1874 – Benoît Édouard Loviot
• 1875 – Edmond Paulin first prize, Jean Bréasson second prize
• 1876 – Paul Blondel
• 1877 – Henri-Paul Nénot first prize un athénée pour une e capitale, Adrien Chancel second prize
• 1878 – Victor Laloux
• 1879 – Victor-Auguste Blavette
• 1880 – Louis Girault, Jacques Hermant – “second Prize”
• 1881 – Henri Deglane
• 1882 – Pierre Esquié
• 1883 – Gaston Redon
• 1884 – Hector d’Espouy
• 1885 – François Paul André
• 1886 – Alphonse Defrasse first prize, Albert Louvet second prize
• 1887 – Georges Chedanne
• 1888 – Albert Tournaire
• 1889 – No first prize, Constant Désiré Despradelle second prize, Demerlé third prize
• 1890 – Emmanuel Pontremoli
• 1891 – Henri Eustache, François-Benjamin Chaussemiche second prize
• 1892 – Guillaume Tronchet
• 1893 – François-Benjamin Chaussemiche
• 1894 – Alfred-Henri Recoura first prize, Auguste-René-Gaston Patouillard second prize, and Gabriel Héraud second prize
• 1895 – René Patouillard-Demoriane
• 1896 – Louis-Charles-Henri Pille first prize, Gustave Umbdenstock second prize
• 1897 – Eugène Duquesne
• 1898 – Léon Chifflot first prize, André Arfvidson second prize
• 1899 – Tony Garnier
• 1900 – Paul Bigot
• 1902 – Henri Prost
• 1903 – Léon Jaussely
• 1907 - Charles Nicod
• 1911 – Raoul Benard first prize, Paul Tournon second prize
• 1912 – Jacques Debat-Ponsan, Roger-Henri Expert second prize
• 1919 – Jacques Carlu
• 1921 – Léon Azéma
• 1923 – Jean-Baptiste Mathon
• 1927 – André Leconte
• 1928 – Georges Dengler
• 1929 – Jean Niermans
• 1930 – Neil Hamill Park
• 1936 – Paul Jacques Grillo, second prize
• 1937 – Paul Jacques Grillo
• 1938 – Henry Bernard
• 1939 – Bernard Zehrfuss
• 1945 – Jean Dubuisson
• 1950 – Xavier Arsène-Henry, second prize
• 1954 – Michel Marot
• 1955 – Ngô Viết Thụ
• 1956 – Michel Folliasson, “second prize
• 1960 – Jean-Claude Bernard
• 1962 – Piet Blom
• 1966 – Bernard Schoebel
• 1967 – Daniel Kahane

Winners in the Painting category

• 1663 – Pierre Monier or Mosnier or Meunier
• 1673 – Louis de Boullogne
• 1682 – Hyacinthe Rigaud
• 1688 – Daniel Sarrabat
• 1699 – Pierre-Jacques Cazes
• 1700 – Alexis Simon Belle
• 1709 – Jean Antoine Watteau (dit Antoine Watteau) – "Second Grand Prize"
• 1711 – François Lemoyne
• 1720 – François Boucher
• 1721 – Charles-Joseph Natoire
• 1724 – Carle van Loo
• 1727 – Pierre-Hubert Subleyras
• 1728 – Jean-Charles Frontier
• 1734 – Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre
• 1736 – Noël Hallé
• 1738 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
• 1741 – Charles-Michel-Ange Challe
• 1746 – Gabriel François Doyen
• 1752 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• 1755 - Jean-François Amand
• 1756 – Hughes Taraval
• 1757 – Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau^[1]
• 1758 – Jean-Bernard Restout
• 1765 – Jean Bardin
• 1766 – François-Guillaume Ménageot
• 1767 – Jean-Simon Berthélemy
• 1768 – François-André Vincent
• 1769 – Joseph Barthélémy Le Bouteux, Pierre Lacour – "Second Grand Prize"
• 1770 – Gabriel Lemonnier
• 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
• 1776 – Bénigne Gagneraux
• 1778 – Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust
• 1780 – Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours
• 1782 – Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet (dit Carle Vernet)
• 1783 – François Gounod – "Second Grand Prize"
• 1784 – Jean Germain Drouais, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – "Second Grand Prize"
• 1787 – François-Xavier Fabre
• 1788 – Etienne-Barthélémy Garnier
• 1789 – Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – "Second Grand Prize"
• 1790 – Jacques Réattu
• 1792 – Charles Paul Landon
• 1797 – Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet, Pierre Bouillon
• 1798 – Fulchran-Jean Harriet
• 1800 – Jean-Pierre Granger
• 1801 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• 1802 – Alexandre Menjaud
• 1803 – Merry-Joseph Blondel
• 1804 – Joseph-Denis Odevaere
• 1805 – Félix Boisselier
• 1807 – François Joseph Heim
• 1808 – Alexandre-Charles Guillemot
• 1809 – Jérôme-Martin Langlois
• 1810 – Michel Martin Drolling
• 1811 – Alexandre-Denis-Abel de Pujol
• 1812 – Louis-Vincent-Léon Pallière
• 1813 – François-Édouard Picot^[2] and Henri-Joseph de Forestier
• 1815 – Jean Alaux (dit le Romain)
• 1816 – Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas
• 1817 – Léon Cogniet, Achille Etna Michallon – History
• 1820 – Amable-Paul Coutan
• 1821 – Joseph-Désiré Court, Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond
• 1823 – Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay
• 1824 – Charles-Philippe Larivière
• 1825 – André Giroux
• 1830 – Émile Signol
• 1831 – Henry-Frédéric-Schopin (or Chopin)
• 1832 – Antoine Wiertz, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin
• 1833 – Gabriel Prieur
• 1834 – Paul Jourdy
• 1836 – Dominique Papety
• 1837 – Thomas Couture
• 1838 – Isidore Pils
• 1839 – Ernest Hébert
• 1840 – Pierre-Nicolas Brisset
• 1842 – Victor Biennourry
• 1844 – Félix-Joseph Barrias
• 1845 – Jean-Achille Benouville, Alexandre Cabanel – “Second Prix de Rome”
• 1847 – Jules Eugène Lenepveu
• 1848 – Joseph Stallaert; William-Adolphe Bouguereau & Gustave Boulanger – “Second Prize”
• 1849 – Gustave Boulanger
• 1850 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry
• 1853 – Henri-Pierre Picou
• 1854 – Émile Lévy – "First Prix de Rome"; Felix-Henri Giacomotti, Armand Bernard – “Second Prix de Rome”
• 1857 – Charles Sellier
• 1858 – Jean-Jacques Henner
• 1859 – Benjamin Ulmann
• 1860 – Ernest Michel
• 1861 – Léon Perrault, Jules Joseph Lefebvre
• 1864 – Diogène-Ulysse-Napoléon Maillart
• 1865 – Jules Machard, André Hennebicq, Gustave Huberti
• 1866 – Henri Regnault^[3]
• 1868 – Édouard-Théophile Blanchard^[4]
• 1869 – Luc-Olivier Merson
• 1871 – Edouard Toudouze
• 1873 – Aimé Morot
• 1874 – Paul-Albert Besnard^[5]
• 1875 – Léon Comerre, Jules Bastien-Lepage – “Second Prize”
• 1876 – Joseph Wencker
• 1880 – Henri Lucien Doucet
• 1881 – Louis-Edouard-Paul Fournier
• 1883 – Marcel Baschet, Émile Friant – “Second Prize”
• 1884 – Edouard Cabane – "Second Prize"
• 1889 – Ernest Laurent, Charles-Amable Lenoir
• 1890 – Charles-Amable Lenoir
• 1891 – Adolphe Déchenaud – “Second Grand Prize”, Hubert-Denis Etcheverry – “Second Prize”
• 1894 – Auguste Leroux, Adolphe Déchenaud
• 1898 – Jean-Amédée Gibert, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Auguste Leroux – "Second Prize"
• 1904 – Antonio Alice^[6]
• 1905 – Albert Henry Krehbiel
• 1907 – Louis Léon Eugène Billotey, Émile Aubry
• 1908 – Jean Lefeuvre
• 1910 – Jean Dupas
• 1911 – Jean-Gabriel Domergue
• 1912 – Gabriel Girodon
• 1913 – Robert Davaux
• 1914 – Victor-Julien Giraud, Jean Despujols
• 1919 – Louis-Pierre Rigal
• 1920 – Paul-Émile Bécat
• 1921 – Constantin Font
• 1922 – Pierre-Henri Ducos de La Haille
• 1923 – Pierre Dionisi
• 1924 – René-Marie Castaing
• 1925 – Odette Pauvert – First "First Grand Prize" obtained by a woman
• 1928 – Nicolas Untersteller
• 1930 – Yves Brayer, Salvatore DeMaio
• 1932 – Geoffrey Burnand
• 1933 – Daniel Boza^[7]
• 1934 – Pierre-Emile-Henri Jérôme
• 1936 – Lucien Fontanarosa & Jean Pinet – “Premier Grand Prize”; Roger Bezombes
• 1938 – Pierre Robert Lucas - "Premier Grand Prize"
• 1941 – Piet Schoenmakers
• 1942 – Pierre-Yves Trémois – “Premier Grand Prize”
• 1946 – José Fabri-Canti
• 1947 – Louis Vuillermoz – “Premier Second Grand Prize”
• 1948 – John Heliker
• 1950 – Paul Collomb – “Premier Second Grand Prize”; Camille Hilaire – Second Grand Prix
• 1951 – Daniel Sénélar – “Premier Grand Prize”
• 1953 – Pierick Houdy
• 1955 – Paul Ambille
• 1960 – Pierre Carron
• 1962 – Freddy Tiffou
• 1963 – Jesus Fuertes
• 1965 – Teresa Peña – first Spanish woman in being awarded with the "Grand Prize"
• 1965 – Jean-Marc Lange
• 1966 – Gérard Barthélemy
• 1967 – Thierry Vaubourgoin – “Second Grand Prize”
• 1968 – Michel Niel Froment

Winners in the Sculpture category

• 1673 – Jean Cornu
• 1680 – Jean Joly
• 1682 – Nicolas Coustou
• 1686 – Pierre Legros
• 1689 – Robert Le Lorrain
• 1692 – Benoît Le Coffre
• 1694 – René Frémin
• 1722 – Edmé Bouchardon
• 1725 – Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne
• 1739 – Louis-Claude Vassé
• 1740 – Pierre-Philippe Mignot
• 1748 – Augustin Pajou
• 1754 – Charles-Antoine Bridan
• 1757 – Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois
• 1758 – Félix Lecomte
• 1761 – Jean-Antoine Houdon
• 1762 – Louis-Simon Boizot
• 1765 – Pierre Julien
• 1772 – François-Nicolas Delaistre
• 1779 – Louis-Pierre Deseine
• 1783 – Augustin Félix Fortin
• 1784 – Antoine-Denis Chaudet
• 1788 – Jacques-Edme Dumont
• 1790 – François-Frédéric Lemot
• 1801 – Joseph-Charles Marin & François-Dominique-Aimé Milhomme
• 1806 – Pierre-François-Grégoire Giraud
• 1809 – Henri-Joseph Ruxthiel
• 1811 – David d'Angers
• 1812 – François Rude
• 1813 – Jean-Jacques Pradier (dit James Pradier)
• 1815 – Étienne-Jules Ramey
• 1817 – Charles-François Lebœuf (dit Nanteuil)
• 1818 – Bernard-Gabriel Seurre (dit Seurre Aîné)
• 1819 – Abel Dimier
• 1820 – Georges Jacquot
• 1821 – Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire
• 1823 – Augustin-Alexandre Dumont & Francisque Joseph Duret
• 1824 – Charles-Marie-Émile Seurre (dit Seurre jeune)
• 1826 – Louis Desprez
• 1827 – Jean-Louis Jaley & François Gaspard Aimé Lanno
• 1828 – Antoine Laurent Dantan (dit Dantan l'Aîné)
• 1829 – Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Debay (dit Debay fils)
• 1830 – Honoré-Jean-Aristide Husson
• 1832 – François Jouffroy & Jean-Louis Brian
• 1833 – Pierre-Charles Simart
• 1836 – Jean-Marie Bonnassieux & Auguste-Louis-Marie Ottin
• 1837 – Louis-Léopold Chambard
• 1838 – Nicolas-Victor Vilain
• 1839 – Théodore-Charles Gruyère
• 1841 – Georges Diebolt & Charles-Joseph Godde
• 1842 – Jules Cavelier
• 1843 – René-Ambroise Maréchal
• 1844 – Eugène-Louis Lequesne
• 1845 – Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
• 1847 – Jacques-Léonard Maillet & Jean-Joseph Perraud
• 1848 – Gabriel-Jules Thomas
• 1849 – Louis Roguet
• 1850 – Charles-Alphonse-Achille Gumery
• 1851 – Gustave Adolphe Désiré Crauk
• 1852 – Alfred-Adolphe-Édouard Lepère
• 1854 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
• 1855 – Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu & Amédée-Donatien Doublemard
• 1856 – Henri-Charles Maniglier
• 1857 – Joseph Tournois
• 1859 – Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière & Louis-Léon Cugnot
• 1860 – Barthélemy Raymond
• 1861 – Justin-Chrysostome Sanson
• 1862 – Ernest-Eugène Hiolle
• 1863 – Charles-Arthur Bourgeois
• 1864 – Eugène Delaplanche & Jean-Baptiste Deschamps
• 1865 – Louis-Ernest Barrias
• 1868 – Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié & Edme-Antony-Paul Noël (dit Tony Noël)
• 1869 – André-Joseph Allar
• 1870 – Jules-Isidore Lafrance
• 1871 – Laurent-Honoré Marqueste
• 1872 – Jules Coutan
• 1873 – Jean-Antoine-Marie Idrac
• 1874 – Jean Antoine Injalbert
• 1875 – Jean-Baptiste Hugues
• 1876 – Alfred-Désiré Lanson
• 1877 – Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier
• 1878 – Edmond Grasset
• 1879 – Léon Fagel
• 1880 – Émile-Edmond Peynot
• 1881 – Jacques-Théodore-Dominique Labatut
• 1882 – Désiré-Maurice Ferrary
• 1883 – Henri-Édouard Lombard
• 1884 – Denys Puech
• 1885 – Joseph-Antoine Gardet
• 1886 – Paul-Gabriel Capellaro
• 1887 – Edgar-Henri Boutry
• 1888 – Louis-J. Convers
• 1889 – Jean-Charles Desvergnes
• 1890 – Paul-Jean-Baptiste Gasq
• 1891 – François-Léon Sicard
• 1892 – Hippolyte-Jules Lefebvre
• 1893 – Aimé-Jérémie-Delphin Octobre
• 1894 – Constant-Ambroise Roux
• 1895 – Hippolyte-Paul-René Roussel (dit Paul-Roussel)
• 1896 – Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Champeil
• 1897 – Victor Segoffin
• 1898 – Camille Alaphilippe
• 1899 – André-César Vermare
• 1900 – Paul-Maximilien Landowski
• 1901 – Henri Bouchard
• 1905 – Lucien Brasseur
• 1906 – François-Maurice Roganeau
• 1909 – Felix Benneteau-Desgrois
• 1911 – Lucienne Heuvelmans
• 1913 – fr:Armand Martial
• 1914 – fr:Marc Leriche
• 1919 – Alfred Janniot – Premier prize, Raymond Delamarre – Premier prize ex aequo et bono, César Schroevens – Third Prize
• 1928 – Pierre Honoré, premier grand prix, Félix Joffre, premier second grand prix, Jacques Zwobada, deuxième second grand prix
• 1932 – Henri Lagriffoul
• 1934 – Albert Bouquillon
• 1935 – Claude Bouscau Premier grand prix de Rome, Alphonse Darville
• 1936 – André Greck
• 1937 – Raymond Granville Barger
• 1939 – René Leleu
• 1944 – Francis Pellerin
• 1947 – Léon Bosramiez
• 1949 – Jean Lorquin
• 1950 – Maurice Calka, Roland Guillaumel
• 1954 – Jacqueline Bechet-Ferber
• 1956 – Claude Goutin
• 1959 – Georges Jeanclos
• 1961 – Glynn Williams
• 1967 – Aldo Casanova
• 1968 – Daniel Druet

Winners in the Engraving category

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

• 1864 – Jules-Clément Chaplain
• 1906 – Henry Cheffer
• 1910 – Jules Piel
• 1911 – Albert Decaris
• 1920 – Pierre Matossy
• 1921 – Pierre Gandon
• 1931 – Arthur Henderson Hall
• 1952 – Claude Durrens

Winners in the Musical Composition category

• 1803 – Albert Androt
• 1804 – no Grand Prize awarded
• 1805 – Victor Dourlen ("first" First Grand Prize) and Ferdinand Gasse ("second" First Grand Prize)
• 1806 – Guillaume Bouteiller("first" First Grand Prize) and Gustave Dugazon ("second" First Grand Prize)
• 1807 – no Grand Prize awarded
• 1808 – Pierre-Auguste-Louis Blondeau
• 1809 – Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul and Jean Vidal
• 1810 – Désiré Beaulieu
• 1811 – Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard
• 1812 – Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold ("first" First Grand Prize) and Félix Cazot ("second" First Grand Prize)
• 1813 – Auguste Mathieu Panseron
• 1814 – Pierre-Gaspard 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 Jean Massin dit Turina ("second" First Grand Prize)
• 1820 – Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne
• 1821 – Victor Rifaut
• 1822 – Joseph-Auguste Lebourgeois and Hyppolyte de Fontmichel
• 1823 – Édouard Boilly and Louis Ermel
• 1824 – Auguste Barbereau
• 1825 – Albert Guillion
• 1826 – Claude Paris and Emile Bienaimé
• 1827 – Jean-Baptiste Guiraud
• 1828 – Guillaume Ross dit 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 – Alphonse Thys (1807–1879)
• 1834 – Antoine Elwart and Hippolyte Colet
• 1835 – Ernest Boulanger (1815–1900)
• 1836 – Xavier Boisselot (1811–1893)
• 1837 – Louis Désiré Besozzi
• 1838 – Georges Bousquet; Édouard Deldevez; and Charles Dancla
• 1839 – Charles Gounod
• 1840 – François Bazin and Édouard Batiste
• 1841 – Aimé Maillart; Théodore Mozin; and Alexis de Garaudé
• 1842 – Alexis Roger (1814–1846)
• 1843 – no Grand Prize awarded
• 1844 – Victor Massé (1822–1884)
• 1845 – no Grand Prize awarded
• 1846 – Léon Gastinel
• 1847 – Pierre-Louis Deffès
• 1848 – Jules Duprato
• 1849 – no Grand Prize awarded
• 1850 – Joseph Charlot
• 1851 – Jean-Charles-Alfred Deléhelle
• 1852 – Léonce Cohen
• 1853 – Pierre-Christophe-Charles Galibert
• 1854 – Adrien Great-Nobert Barthe
• 1855 – Jean Conte
• 1856 – no Grand Prize awarded
• 1857 – Georges Bizet
• 1858 – Samuel David
• 1859 – Ernest Guiraud
• 1860 – Émile Paladilhe
• 1861 – Théodore Dubois
• 1861 – Théodore Salomé ("first" Second Grand Prize)
• 1861 – Eugène Anthiome and Titus Constantin ("second" Second Grand Prize)
• 1862 – Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray
• 1863 – Jules Massenet
• 1863 – Adolphe Danhauser ("first" Second Grand Prize)
• 1864 – Victor Sieg
• 1865 – Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu
• 1866 – Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard (1843–1917)
• 1867 – no prize awarded
• 1868 – Alfred Pelletier-Rabuteau and Eugène Wintzweiller
• 1869 – Antoine Taudou
• 1870 – Charles-Édouard 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
• 1882 – Gabriel Pierné – "Second Prize"
• 1883 – Paul Vidal
• 1884 – Claude Debussy
• 1885 – Xavier Leroux
• 1886 – Augustin Savard
• 1886 – André Gedalge – "Second Prize"
• 1887 – Gustave Charpentier
• 1893 – André Bloch
• 1894 – Henri Rabaud
• 1899 – François Rasse
• 1900 – Florent Schmitt
• 1901 – André Caplet (against Maurice Ravel, 3rd Prize)
• 1901 – Gabriel Dupont – "Second Prize"
• 1902 – Aymé Kunc
• 1902 – Jean Roger-Ducasse – "Second Prize"
• 1902 – Albert Bertelin – "Third Prize"
• 1903 – Raoul Laparra
• 1904 – Raymond-Jean Pech
• 1904 – Paul Pierné – "Second Prize"
• 1904 – Hélène Fleury-Roy – "Third Prize"
• 1905 – Victor Gallois
• 1905 – Marcel Samuel-Rousseau – "Second Prize"
• 1905 – Philippe Gaubert – "Third Prize"
• 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 – Marcel Tournier – "Second Prize"
• 1910 – Noël Gallon
• 1913 – Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
• 1914 – Marc Delmas – "Second Grand Prize"
• 1914 – Marcel Dupré – "First Grand Prize"
• 1919 – Jacques Ibert – "First Grand Prize"
• 1923 – Jeanne Leleu – "First Grand Prize"
• 1923 – Robert Bréard – "Second Prize"
• 1929 – Elsa Barraine
• 1932 – Yvonne Desportes
• 1934 – Eugène Bozza
• 1936 – Henri Challan
• 1938 – Henri Dutilleux
• 1939 – Pierre Maillard-Verger, Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
• 1940 – No competition
• 1941 – No competition
• 1942 – Alfred Desenclos, Rolande Falcinelli
• 1943 – Pierre Sancan
• 1944 – Raymond Gallois Montbrun
• 1945 – Claude Pascal, Marcel Bitsch, Gérard Calvi (Krettly), Charles Jay
• 1950 – Éveline Plicque-Andrani, Serge Lancen
• 1951 – Charles Chaynes, Ginette Keller
• 1952 – Alain Weber, Jean-Michel Defay, Jacques Albrespic
• 1953 – Jacques Castérède, Pierick Houdy
• 1954 – Roger Boutry
• 1955 – Pierre Max Dubois, René Maillard, George Balch Wilson
• 1956 – Jean Aubain, Pierre Gabaye
• 1960 – Gilles Boizard, Jean-Claude Henry
• 1961 – Christian Manen, Pierre Durand
• 1962 – Alain Petitgirard, Antoine Tisné
• 1963 – Yves Cornière, Michel Decoust
• 1964 – no first prize, Xavier Darasse
• 1965 – Thérèse Brenet, Lucie Diessel-Robert
• 1966 – Monique Cecconi-Botella, Michel Merlet
• 1967 – Michel Rateau, Philippe Dugroz
• 1968 – Alain Louvier, Édith Lejet

After 1968, the Prix de Rome changed formats and the competition was no longer organised.

Netherlands

For a short while the Prix de Rome was also awarded to young artists during the Kingdom of Holland (today roughly Belgium & the Netherlands) under Lodewijk Napoleon. During the years 1807–1810 prize winners were sent to Paris and onwards to Rome for study. In 1817 King Willem I restarted the prize; though it took until 1823 before the new "Royal Academies" of Amsterdam and Antwerp could organize the juries. Winners (1807–1810):^[8]

• 1807 Woutherus Mol, Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti & Abraham Teerlink
• 1808 Tiarko Meyer Cramer, Jan de Greef & Josephus Augustus Knip; Zeger Reijers & Antonie Sminck Pitloo (Architecture)
• 1809 Johan David Zocher Jr. (Architecture); Paulus Joseph Gabriël (Sculpture)
• 1810 Pieter Rudolph Kleijn

See also

• Académie de France Rome
• American Academy in Rome
• American School of Classical Studies at Athens
• American Schools of Oriental Research
• British School at Rome
• Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom
• Rome Prize

References

External links

• The Prix de Rome Contests in Painting
• The Prix de Rome winners in Sculpture (in French)
• Villa Medici Fellows — Prix de Rome winners listed before 1968