The Académie de Saint-Luc was the guild of painters and sculptors set up in Paris in 1391, and dissolved in 1776.Alfred Fierro (1996). ''Histoire et Dictionnaire de Paris''. Paris: Robert Laffont. It was set up by the

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in 1391, along the lines of the Guilds of Saint Luke in other parts of Europe. The Académie de Saint-Luc was successful, as it attracted the artists who did not have access to the

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. This was particularly the case for women artists. In the 18th-century, there were 130 female members of the Académie de Saint-Luc, many more than at the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1783 limited its female members to four. In the 1770s, the success of the Académie de Saint-Luc provoked the enmity of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which complained to the King and successfully petitioned for the closure of their rival. In February 1776 therefore, the Académie de Saint-Luc was closed on the order of

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. Some of its members later became accepted by the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.

Members

* Jean Bassange * Laurent Cars * Jean Siméon Chardin *

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Charles Eisen Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (17 August 1720 – 4 January 1778) was a French painter and engraver. Life The son and pupil of Frans Eisen, he was born at Valenciennes. In 1741 he went to Paris, and in the following year entered the studio of ...

Nicolas Fouché Nicolas Fouché (1653–1733) was a French painter. Fouché was born in Troyes, the son of the painter Léonard Fouché. He was received into the Académie de Saint-Luc on 15 March 1679. The abbé de Monville, biographer of Pierre Mignard, ca ...

* Francois Guérin *

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* Jean-Baptiste Lallemand * François Perrier *

Jean-Michel Picart Jean-Michel Picart or Jean-Michel Picard (Antwerp, c. 1600 – Paris, 24 November 1682) was a Flemish people, Flemish still life painter and art dealer active in France. After training in Antwerp, he moved to Paris where he had a brilliant ca ...

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet (1715 – 17 April 1793) was a French painter born in Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, Gentilly. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Raguenet (1682–1755), actor and painter, and Genevieve Murgues. The Raguenets, father and s ...

* Gabriel de Saint-Aubin * Pierre Scheemackers (Professor, from January 1764) * Sébastien Slodtz *

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* Guillaume Voiriot *

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References

External links

''Livrets des expositions de l'Académie de Saint-Luc à Paris: pendant les années 1751, 1752, 1753, 1756, 1762, 1764 et 1774''
(in French)
"État de L'Académie de Saint-Luc au Moment de sa Suppression, en 1776"
(in French) {{DEFAULTSORT:Academie De Saint-Luc Arts and culture in the Ancien Régime French art 1391 establishments in Europe 1390s establishments in France 1777 disestablishments Defunct organizations based in France