Academic Art
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
Color: Brown
Panorama of The Minaret - Orientalist Gouache 1882
By Paul Pascal
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
PASCAL Paul (1832-1903)
View of the Minaret
Orientalist Gouache signed low right and dated 1882
Old glassed frame gilded with leaves
Dim gouache : 51 X 70 cm
Dim Frame : 71 X 90 cm
...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Gouache
British 19th Century oil painting of a mill at the riverside by Alfred Vickers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Alfred H. Vickers (British, 1853-1907)
A Mill at the Riverside
Oil on canvas
Signed, ‘A.H Vickers.’ (lower right)
10 x 12 1/8 in. (25.5 x 31 cm.)
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Girl with Bouquet
Located in Washington, DC
Monogrammed lower right
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
THE SPRING
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful La Belle Epoque marble in nive vintage condition.
Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) was a French sculptor in the academic style. He was born in Dijon, first exhibited in the 1848 Salon, and finally received a medal of honor...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Marble
Nude Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful female nude in profile. European, ca. 1920-30. Oil on canvas, 31.5 x 35.75 inches; 35.5 x 39.75 inches framed. Sign indistinctly upper right.
A few areas of paint loss (v...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
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 Art
Materials
Oil
At the Market, Flowers
Located in Greenwich, CT
A grand, elegant and Classic French still life of flowers! Can hold an entire room and long length of wall. Beautiful, opulent color tones so extra lighting is not necessary. Great presentation in the Empire style frame, 22 Karat.
Undoubtedly Perrachon’s most ambitious canvas, it still has all of the qualities of his smaller rose paintings which gained him great recognition. As with any of the Lyon trained flower painters, Perrachon’s painting displays sound draughtsmanship, luminous colors and clever composition. This particular painting was exhibited at the Lyon Salon in 1898. Chez la Marchande de Fleurs presents a stunning array of blooms, among them roses and lilacs, set against a richly-textured ground. Perrachon creates a brilliant play of light against the baskets and pots of flowers, skillfully rendering highlight and shadow in order to create a sumptuous and beautiful composition.
A flower and still life painter, André Perrachon was a student of Lepage at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Lyon. Lyon produced an important and remarkable school of flower painters in the 19th century of which Perrachon is an excellent exponent. Perrachon debuted in the Paris salon in 1850 and won honorable mentions in both 1859 and 1863, continuing afterwards to exhibit regularly in the Paris and Lyon Salons. Perrachon was also a most popular art...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Borzois by Otto Eerelman
Located in New Orleans, LA
This monumental painting is by the celebrated Dutch artist Otto Eerelman, one of 19th-century Europe's most popular and important animal portraitists, an...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman in Warm Grays and Soft Ochers
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
Leon Kroll was above all an academician. To him "abstract art was merely the beginning of a picture. Structurally, "Portrait of a Young Woman recalls some of the portraits from the ...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Board
“Moonlight Sail”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful, serene sepia watercolor of a moonlight sail on archival paper attributed to Robert Montgomery. Signed lower left. Condition is excellent. Re...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
“Sunset on the River”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully painted sunset on the river with a single figure in a punt and cattle crossing by the American artist, George Riecke. Most likely a New Orlea...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yesterday's Love, Love can Be True. The Heart can Betray
Located in Miami, FL
Classic illustration for a romanace novel from the 1950's in England. Recently these charming works have been the source of interest and even parody. Unsigned, unframed. Vale Studi...
Category
1950s Academic Art
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Jungle by the River - Original Old painting
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
VON PLESSEN Willy (1868-1937)
Jungle by the River - Probably from old german colonies in Africa
Oil on wood signed low left
Frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 62 X 50 cm
Dim ...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Mythological scene, study for the Prize of Rome 1864, French academism, Homer
Located in Norwich, GB
This rare mythological scene depicting the Greek author Homer on the island of Scyros. You will notice the Trojan War being fought in the background. Our painting, dating from 1864, is unsigned, but has a solid attribution to academic artist Henri-Léopold Lévy...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Still Life with Strawberries”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very nicely executed original still life oil painting on fiberboard of strawberries by an unknown artist. Signed lower right, Charles Burch. I believe this painting is quite possibly the work of Edward Pritchard...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Asiatic Lion, Lioness, Bengal Tiger, Leopard, Jaguar Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Antique Steel Engraving Published 1866 by Blackie & Son, London for "A History of the Earth and Animated Nature" by Oliver Goldsmith.
Matt siz...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
19th Century British watercolour of Dartmoor ponies by Walter Bothams
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Walter Bothams (British, 1850 – 1914)
Dartmoor ponies
Watercolour on paper
Signed and dated ‘ W Bothams 84’ (lower right)
10.1/4 x 8in. (26 x 20.3 cm.)
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
L'odalisque à l'éventail (The Odalisque with the Fan)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Léon François Comerre
1850-1916 French
L'odalisque à l'éventail
(The Odalisque with the Fan)
Signed "Léon Comerre" (upper left)
Oil on canvas
Combinin...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES
Located in Portland, ME
Michallet (attributed). ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES. Four Charcoal drawings, each on heavy wove paper, 19th Century. 24 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches (s...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal
Solitude
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed “G-Seignac” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
French Academic painter Guillaume Seignac was renowned for his masterful treatment of the idealized nude. His languishing female subje...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Four Seasons - Four Original Paintings 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
SCHULTZ Adrien (1851-1931)
The Four Seasons
Four oils on wood signed low right and left
Framed by Gault (Fbg St Honoré - Paris)
Dimensions wood (each) : 63 X 27 cm
Dimensions frame (each) : 75 X 38 cm
SCHULTZ Adrien (1851 / 1931)
French painter - Barbizon School
The son of a Parisian bookseller-publisher, he began working in his father's company, while practicing drawing and painting, often on the banks of the Marne. Noted by landscape artist Louis Émile Dardoize, he continued his apprenticeship in his studio, then in that of painter Hector Hanoteau. He is very close to Narcisse Diaz de la Pena...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Drawing of Putti in the Clouds by Jean-Jacques le Barbier l'Ainé (1738-1826)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Drawing of Putti in the Clouds
Jean-Jacques le Barbier l'Ainé (France, 1738-1826)
Black pencil on paper
Signed and dated lower left "Le Barbier L'ainé 1816"
10 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches ...
Category
1810s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Snow Bunting Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of a Snow Bunting
Matt size 24.5cm x 29.5cm
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of an Elegant Lady 1897
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GENTY Emmanuel (1830-1904)
Portrait of an Elegant Lady
Oil on canvas signed low right and dated 1897
Old Frame regilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 100 x 81 cm
Dim frame : 120 x 10...
Category
1890s Academic Art
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 Art
Materials
Oil
A set of Biblical prints after the Dutch painter and engraver Gerard Hoet
By Gerard Hoet
Located in London, GB
The present collection is a set of 131 prints after Gerard Hoet, the Dutch golden age painter and engraver, depicting various biblical scenes. Hoet was a leading artist in the Classicizing Dutch Academic style, and his work is defined by history paintings, with a particular interest in mythological, classical, historical, and biblical scene, in particular Old testament scenes...
Category
Early 1700s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Black and White, Engraving
Solitude
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Academic painter Guillaume Seignac was renowned for his masterful treatment of the idealized nude. His languishing female subjects based on Greco-Roman prototypes were and rem...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bergère et son troupeau crépuscule, 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 Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
“Still Life with Grapes and Peaches”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very nicely executed original still life oil painting on fiberboard by the Wales born artist, Edward Pritchard. Signed lower left. Circa 1915. Conditi...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Cactus & Rose of Jericho Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Melocactos" (Turk's Cap Cactus or Mother-in-law's Cushion), "Rosa Hiericontea aperta" (Rose of Jericho Unfolded), "Rosa Hie...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
View of old Lausanne by Ch. François Villermet - Work on paper 31x48 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
48 x 64 x 1 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
“Still Life with Fruit”
By Henry George Todd
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a late 19th century still life with fruit by the well known British artist, Henry George Todd. Signed lower left a...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, 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 Art
Materials
Gouache
Pate Choud a la Financier, Timbale Millinaise
By Jules Gouffe
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Jules Gouffe (1807-1877)
Le Livre de Cusine
Librairie Hachette et Cie
Paris, 1867
Chromolithographs
At the age of 16, Jules Gouffe found his calling as a student of the famous Lent....
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Town Hall Square By Barthélémy Marc Bodmer - Engraving
Located in Geneva, CH
Engraving on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
62 x 50 x 2 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Cathédrale Saint Pierre Genève by Pierre Duc - Watercolor
By Pierre Duc
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor paper
Brown wooden frame with plexiglass
85,5 x 65,7 x 2 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Early 20th Century view of St. Ives harbour, Cornwall, UK by Fred Bottomley
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Fred Bottomley (British, 1883-1960)
St Ives harbour
Gouache and watercolour
Signed `F. Bottomley.’ (lower right)
9.1/8 x 13.1/8 in. (23.2 x 33.4 cm.)
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Initial Letters "D" (Alphabet)
By Owen Jones
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS
Owen Jones (1806-1889)
Day & Sons
London, 1864
Chromolithographs
One Thousand and One Initial Letters playfully describes an artistic endeavor by Owen Jones. Teaching Applied Arts at the South Kensington School of Design, Jones honed his skills at transforming historical design into contemporary brilliance. Never imitating or duplicating, he remained true to the times and the materials available. Like his fellow artists, architects, painters and poets, he was on the cusp of change. In Jones’ lifetime a new aesthetic would develop. By the centuries’ end it would become an era with a heighten sense of nature coupled with design. The phrase ‘Art...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
“Tavern Life”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a lively tavern scene. Signed lower right and dated 1942 by the British artist, George Anderson Short...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite, Watercolor
“The Hunters”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of two hunters in the field by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom right. Circa ...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Drawing of Putti with Anchor by Jean-Jacques le Barbier l'Ainé (1738-1826)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Drawing of Putti with Anchor
Jean-Jacques le Barbier l'Ainé (1738-1826)
Black pencil on paper
Signed and dated lower left "...1822. 12 years l waiting"
Considering that the anchor ...
Category
1820s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of Three Children in the Garden- original painting 19th Century
By Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Balmer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Balmer Paul Friedrich Wilhelm (1865 - 1922)
Three Children in The Garden (1890)
Oil on canvas signed and dated low right
Old frame regilded with gold le...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Man and Sun Gold Screenprint by Lebadang
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Man and Sun
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Category
1970s Academic Art
Materials
Screen
The Ladies and the Dove
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BARON Dominique (19th Century)
The Ladies and the dove
Oil on canvas signed Low Right
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 59 X 75 cm
Dim frame : ...
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
“British Pub”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior crowded pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed lower left and date...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Beautiful Woman, The Coy Look - French Painting
Located in Miami, FL
If Vogue magazine existed in the late 19th century, this sitter could be on the cover. The depth of her feminine beauty and sweetness is mesmerizing. She looks at you. You look ...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
HERMMANN LEON - Painting 19th Century - Portrait of a Dog in Interior
By Charles Herrmann-Léon 1
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
HERRMANN LEON Charles (1838-1908)
Portrait of a Dog in interior
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old frame re-gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 56 X 46 cm
Dim frame : 69 X 59 cm
HERRMANN LEON Charles (1838-1908)
French painter 19th century
Born 22 july 1838 in Le Havre. Died 1...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Mother and Child
Located in Miami, FL
This warm portrait looks like it could have been painted by Corot. Francis Luis Mora paints in that tradition. It's a small painting that invites the viewer to look closer. The art...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Rustic Apples and Bread Food Still Life French Salon Academic Antique Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A remarkable work by Charles Nicolas Etienne Mayre, an academic painter born in Choisy le Roi near Paris in 1819. He studied with the masters Michel-Martin Drolling and Leon Cogniet...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Spring
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful La Belle Epoque marble in nive vintage condition.
Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) was a French sculptor in the academic style. He was born in Dijon, first exhibited in the 1848 Salon, and finally received a medal of honor...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Marble
“Innocent Captivation Amusement Pastorale”
By Anthony Cardon
Located in Southampton, NY
Original stipple engraving on a verge type of hand laid paper. The overall size of the engraving is 15.75 inches by 12.75 inches The image size of the engraving is 14 inches by 12 i...
Category
Early 1800s Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Laid Paper
Dance school by Benjamin II Vautier - Drawing 33x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
49,5 x 63 x 2 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pencil
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), Three studies of horses, original signed Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
Three studies of horses
16 x 10 cm
Pen and ink on paper
Signed lower left
The third study on the lower right has been ...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Ink
Bergère près des rochers
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 Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Winter Landscape by the River
By Jean Eugene Clary
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CLARY Jean Eugène (1856-1930)
Winter Landscape by the River
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 46 X 80 cm
Dim frame : 68 X 103 cm
CLARY Jean Eugèn...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Lucrèce Borgia
Located in Paris, FR
Antoine Georges Rochegrosse
1859-1938
Lucrèce Borgia, circa 1880
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Canvas: 36 5/8" high x 29 1/8" wide
Frame: 50 3/8" high x 40 1/8" wide
Georges...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Academic art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Academic art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple, blue, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Karen Darbinyan, Owen Jones, Paul Jones b.1921, and Mark Beard. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Academic art, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11 and tops out at $700,000, while the average work sells for $1,444.
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