The Prix de Rome or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state. The prize was extended to architecture in 1720, music in 1803 and engraving in 1804. The prestigious award was abolished in 1968 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, following the May 68 riots that called for cultural change.

History

The Prix de Rome was initially created 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. To succeed, a student had to create a sketch on an assigned topic while isolated in a closed booth with no reference material to draw on. 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 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), 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. During World War II (1939–45), the prize winners were accommodated in the Villa Paradiso in Nice. The Prix de Rome was abolished 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. 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 for Architecture was created in 1720.

18th century (architecture)

19th century (architecture)

20th century (architecture)

First Prize Winners in the Painting category

17th century (painting)

• 1663 – Jean-Baptiste Corneille • 1664 – Pierre Monier or Mosnier or Meunier • 1665 – François Bonnemer • 1666 – No award • 1667 – • 1668 – François Verdier • 1669 – Bon Boullogne • 1670–71 – François Verdier • 1672 – Alexandre Ubelesqui • 1673 – Louis de Boullogne • 1674 – Jacques de Montgobert • 1675 – Claude Guy Hallé • 1676 – Louis Chéron • 1677 – No award • 1678 – Louis Chéron • 1679–80 – Charles Desforest • 1681 – No award • 1682 – Hyacinthe Rigaud • 1683 – Gabriel Benoist • 1684 – Gregor Brandmüller • 1685 – Nicolas Bertin • 1686 – Antoine Dieu • 1687 – Jean Christophe • 1688 – Daniel Sarrabat • 1689 – Pierre-Jean-Baptiste de Lignières • 1690 – or Cussin • 1691 – Sebert • 1692 – Benoît Le Coffre • 1693 – Henri de Favanne • 1694 – Noël Neveu • 1695 – Louis Galloche • 1696 – Pierre Dulin • 1697 – Pierre Dulin • 1698 – Nicolas de Poilly the Younger (1675—1747) • 1699 – Pierre-Jacques Cazes • 1700 – Alexis Simon Belle

18th century (painting)

• 1701 – • 1702 – Duflos or Duflocq • 1703 – Antoine Pesne • 1704 – Jean Raoux • 1705 – • 1706–08 – No award • 1709 – Antoine Grison • 1710 – Jean Giral or Girac • 1711 – François Lemoyne • 1712 – Venard • 1713 – Sauteny or Lanteny • 1714 – No award • 1715 – Joseph Wamps • 1716 – No award • 1717 – Charles Lamy • 1718–20 – No record • 1721 – Charles-Joseph Natoire • 1722 – No record • 1723 – François Boucher • 1724 – Charles-André van Loo • 1725 – Louis-Michel van Loo • 1726 – Allais • 1727 – Pierre Subleyras • 1728 – Jean-Charles Frontier • 1729 – Duflot • 1730 – Antoine Boizot • 1731 – Lemesle • 1732–33 – No record • 1734 – Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre • 1735 – No record • 1736 – Noël Hallé • 1737 – Fournier • 1738 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo • 1739 – Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain • 1740 – No record • 1741 – Charles-Michel-Ange Challe • 1742 – No award • 1743 – Joseph-Marie Vien • 1744 – No award • 1745 – No record • 1746 – No award • 1747 – Pierre-Charles Le Mettay • 1748 – Jean-Baptiste Hutin • 1749 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée • 1750 – Joseph Melling • 1751 – Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Colleville • 1752 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard • 1753 – Charles Monnet • 1754 – Jean-Pierre Chardin, jnr • 1755 – Jean-François Amand • 1756 – Hughes Taraval • 1757 – Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau • 1758 – Jean-Bernard Restout • 1759 – Étienne de La Vallée Poussin • 1760 – • 1761 – • 1762 – Jacques-Philippe-Joseph de Saint-Quentin • 1763 – Jean-Baptiste Alizard • 1764 – Antoine-François Callet • 1765 – Jean Bardin • 1766 – François-Guillaume Ménageot • 1767 – Jean-Simon Berthélemy • 1768 – François-André Vincent • 1769 – Joseph Barthélémy Le Bouteux • 1770 – Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier • 1771 – Joseph-Benoît Suvée • 1772 – Pierre-Charles Jombert • 1773 – Pierre Peyron • 1774 – Jacques-Louis David • 1775 – Jean Bonvoisin • 1776 – Jean-Baptiste Regnault • 1777 – Jean-Gustave Taraval • 1778 – Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust • 1779 – Louis Gauffier • 1780 – Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours • 1781 – Jean-Baptiste de Vignaly • 1782 – Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet (dit Carle Vernet) • 1783 – Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Desmarais • 1784 – Jean Germain Drouais and Louis Gauffier • 1785 – Victor-Maximilien Potain • 1786 – Charles Meynier • 1787 – François-Xavier Fabre • 1788 – Etienne-Barthélémy Garnier • 1789 – Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson • 1790 – Jacques Réattu • 1791 – Louis Lafitte and Charles Thévenin • 1792 – Charles Paul Landon • 1793 – No record • 1794–96 – No award • 1797 – Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet and Pierre Bouillon • 1798 – Fulchran-Jean Harriet • 1799 – and Alexandre-Romain Honnet

19th century (painting)

• 1800 – Jean-Pierre Granger • 1801 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres • 1802 – Alexandre Menjaud • 1803 – Merry-Joseph Blondel • 1804 – Joseph Denis Odevaere • 1805 – Félix Boisselier • 1806 – 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 and Henri-Joseph de Forestier • 1814 – Auguste Vinchon • 1815 – Jean Alaux (known as "Le Romain") • 1816 – Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas • 1817 – Léon Cogniet, Achille Etna Michallon • 1818 – Nicolas-Auguste Hesse • 1819 – François Dubois • 1820 – Amable-Paul Coutan • 1821 – Joseph-Désiré Court, Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond • 1822 – No award • 1823 – Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay and François Bouchot • 1824 – Charles-Philippe Larivière • 1825 – André Giroux • 1825 – • 1826 – Éloi Firmin Féron • 1827 – François-Xavier Dupré • 1828 – No award • 1829 – • 1830 – Émile Signol • 1831 – Henri Frédéric Schopin • 1832 – Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin • 1833 – Eugène Roger • 1834 – • 1835 – No award • 1836 – Dominique Papety and • 1837 – Jean Gilbert Murat • 1838 – Isidore Pils • 1839 – Ernest Hébert • 1840 – Pierre-Nicolas Brisset • 1841 – Auguste Lebouy • 1842 – • 1843 – Auguste Lebouy • 1844 – Félix-Joseph Barrias • 1845 – Jean-Achille Benouville • 1846 – No award • 1847 – Jules Eugène Lenepveu • 1848 – Joseph Stallaert • 1849 – Gustave Boulanger • 1850 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry • 1851 – François Chifflart • 1852 – No award • 1853 – No award • 1854 – Émile Lévy, Félix-Henri Giacomotti and Théodore-Pierre-Nicolas Maillot • 1855 – No award • 1856 – Félix Auguste Clément and Jules-Élie Delaunay • 1857 – Charles Sellier • 1858 – Jean-Jacques Henner • 1859 – Benjamin Ulmann • 1860 – • 1861 – Jules Joseph Lefebvre • 1862 – No award • 1863 – Joseph-Fortuné-Séraphin Layraud and Alphonse Monchablon • 1864 – Diogène Maillart • 1865 – • 1866 – Henri Regnault • 1867 – Joseph Blanc • 1868 – Édouard-Théophile Blanchard • 1869 – Luc-Olivier Merson • 1870 – Fernand Lematte • 1871 – Édouard Toudouze • 1872 – Gabriel Ferrier • 1873 – Aimé Morot • 1874 – Paul-Albert Besnard • 1875 – Léon Comerre • 1876 – • 1877 – Théobald Chartran • 1878 – François Schommer and Julius Schmid • 1879 – Alfred-Henri Bramtot • 1880 – Henri Lucien Doucet • 1881 – Louis Édouard Fournier • 1882 – • 1883 – Marcel Baschet • 1884 – Henri Pinta • 1885 – Alexis Axilette • 1886 – Charles Lebayle • 1887 – Henri-Camille Danger • 1888 – No award • 1889 – Ernest Laurent, Gaston Thys • 1890 – André Devambez • 1891 – Alexandre-Claude-Louis Lavalley • 1892 – Georges-Auguste Lavergne • 1893 – • 1894 – Auguste Leroux and Adolphe Déchenaud • 1895 – Gaston Larée • 1896 – Charles-Lucien Moulin • 1897 – No award • 1898 – Jean-Amédée Gibert and William Laparra • 1899 – • 1900 – Fernand Sabatté

20th century (painting)

• 1901 – • 1902 – and Victor-Oscar Guétin • 1903 – André-Jean Monchablon and Yves Edgar Muller d'Escars • 1904 – No award • 1905 – No award • 1906 – and • 1907 – and Émile Aubry • 1908 – • 1909 – Pierre Bodard • 1910 – Jean Dupas • 1911 – Marco de Gastyne • 1912 – • 1913 – No award • 1914 – Jean-Blaise Giraud, Jean Despujols and Robert Poughéon • 1915–18 – No award • 1919 – • 1920 – No award • 1921 – Emile-Marie Beaume and • 1922 – • 1923 – • 1924 – • 1925 – Odette Pauvert (the first woman to receive the "First Grand Prize" in painting) • 1926 – No award • 1927 – No award • 1928 – Paul-Robert Bazé, Daniel-Jules-Marie Octobre and Nicolas Untersteller • 1929 – • 1930 – Yves Brayer • 1931 – • 1932 – Georges Cheyssial • 1933 – Roland-Marie Gérardin • 1934 – • 1935 – No award • 1936 – Lucien Fontanarosa and Jean Pinet • 1937 – Pierre Robert Lucas • 1938 – Madeleine Lavanture • 1939 – • 1940–42 – No award • 1943 – Pierre-Yves Trémois and Yves Trévédy • 1944 – Georges Marcel Jean Pichon • 1945 – Pierre-Marie-Joseph Guyenot • 1946 – • 1947 – Eliane Beaupuy • 1948 – François Orlandini • 1949 – No award • 1950 – and • 1951 – Daniel Sénélar • 1952 – • 1953 – • 1954 – Armand Sinko • 1955 – • 1956 – Henri Thomas • 1957 – • 1958 – Raymond Humbert • 1959 – Arlette Budy • 1960 – Pierre Carron • 1961 – Joël Moulin • 1962 – • 1963 – Roger Blaquière • 1964 – Claude-Jean Guillemot • 1965 – • 1966 – Gérard Barthélemy • 1967 – • 1968 – (last award)

First Prize Winners in the Sculpture category

17th century (sculpture)

• 1665 – François Lespingola • 1673 – Louis Lecomte aka Le Picard • 1674 – Jacques Prou • 1675 – Girardon, jnr • 1676 – Pierre Laviron • 1678 – Pierre Laviron • 1680 – Jean Joly • 1682 – Nicolas Coustou • 1683 – Pierre Lepautre • 1684 – Robert Doisy • 1685 – Zéphirin Adam • 1686 – Pierre Legros, jnr • 1687 – Jean-Louis Lemoyne • 1688 – • 1689 – Robert Le Lorrain • 1690 – Hubert Collinet or Colinet • 1691 – François Regnaudin • 1692 – Brodon • 1693 – Benoît Le Coffre • 1694 – René Frémin • 1695 – Augustin Caillot • 1696 – Augustin Caillot • 1697 – Guillaume Coustou • 1698 – • 1699 – Jean de Fer • 1700 –

18th century (sculpture)

• 1701 – Joseph Van Clève • 1702 – Jacques Loysel or Loizel • 1703 – Pierre Villeneuve • 1704 – Jean Leblanc, jnr • 1705 – Jacques Bousseau • 1706–08 – No award • 1709 – François Dumont • 1710 – Lefèvre • 1711 – Pierre Bourlot • 1712 – Jean-Baptiste Guyot • 1713 – Martin • 1714–15 – No award • 1716 – • 1717 – No award • 1718 – • 1721 – No award • 1722 – Edmé Bouchardon • 1723 – Lambert Sigisbert Adam • 1724 – • 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne • 1726 – • 1727 – Jacques Roëttiers de la Tour • 1728 – Vandervoort • 1729 – François Ladatte • 1730 – Claude-Clair Francin • 1731 – • 1732 – Jean-Baptiste Boudard • 1733 – • 1734 – No award • 1735 – Guillaume II Coustou • 1736 – • 1737 – Le Marchand • 1738 – Jacques Saly • 1739 – Louis-Claude Vassé • 1740 – Pierre-Philippe Mignot • 1741 – François Gaspard Balthazar Adam • 1742 – No award • 1743 – Chasles • 1744 – No award • 1745 – Pierre Hubert Larchevêque • 1746 – No award • 1747 – Jean-Jacques Caffieri • 1748 – Augustin Pajou • 1749 – Guyard • 1750 – Louis-Félix Delarue • 1751 – Auvray • 1752 – André Brenet • 1753 – Jean-Baptiste d'Huez • 1754 – Charles-Antoine Bridan • 1755 – Pierre-François Berruer • 1756 – Lebrun • 1757 – Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois • 1758 – Félix Lecomte • 1759 – Claude Michel aka Clodion • 1760 – Monot • 1761 – Jean-Antoine Houdon • 1762 – Louis-Simon Boizot • 1763 – Boucher • 1764 – Jacques-Philippe Beauvais • 1765 – Pierre Julien • 1766 – Nicolas Sénéchal • 1767 – Louis-Jacques Pilon • 1768 – Jean Guillaume Moitte • 1769 – Jean Joseph Foucou • 1770 – René Millot • 1771 – Joseph Deschamps • 1772 – François-Nicolas Delaistre • 1773 – André Ségla • 1774 – Pierre La Bussière • 1775 – Barthélémy-François Chardigny • 1776 – Antoine-Léonard Pasquier • 1777 – François-Marie Suzanne • 1778 – Jacques Lemaire • 1779 – Louis-Pierre Deseine • 1780 – Louis-Antoine Bacari • 1781 – Jacques-Philippe Le Sueur • 1782 – Claude Ramey • 1783 – Augustin Félix Fortin • 1784 – Antoine-Denis Chaudet • 1785 – Claude Michallon • 1786 – Edme-François-Étienne Gois • 1787 – Barthélémy Corneille • 1788 – Jacques-Edme Dumont • 1789 – Antoine-François Gérard • 1790 – François-Frédéric Lemot • 1791 – Pierre-Charles Bridan • 1792 – Auguste Marie Taunay • 1793–96 – No award • 1797 – Charles Antoine Callamard • 1798 – Louis Delaville • 1799 – Charles Dupaty • 1800 –

19th century (sculpture)

• 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 Ségoffin • 1898 – Camille Alaphilippe • 1899 – André-César Vermare • 1900 – Paul-Maximilien Landowski

20th century (sculpture)

• 1901 – Henri Bouchard • 1902 – Alphonse Camille Terroir • 1903 – Eugène Désiré Piron • 1904 – Jean-Baptiste Larrivé • 1905 – Lucien Brasseur • 1906 – François-Maurice Roganeau • 1907 – Not awarded • 1908 – Marcel Gaumont and Henri Camille Crenier • 1909 – Felix Benneteau-Desgrois • 1910 – Louis Lejeune • 1911 – Lucienne Heuvelmans (the first woman to receive the "First Grand Prize") • 1912 – Siméon Charles Joseph Foucault • 1913 – Armand Martial • 1914 – Marc Leriche • 1917 _ Stefano Zuech • 1919 – Alfred Janniot and Raymond Delamarre jointly • 1920 – Charles Georges Cassou • 1921 – Élie-Jean Vézien • 1922 – Jean Dominique Aubiné • 1923 – Louis Bertola • 1924 – André Augustin Sallé • 1925 – Victor Jules Évariste Jonchère • 1926 – René Letourneur • 1927 – Raymond Couvègnes • 1928 – Pierre Honoré • 1929 – Félix Joffre • 1930 – André Bizette-Lindet • 1931 – Louis Leygue • 1932 – Henri Lagriffoul • 1933 – Ulysse Gémignani • 1934 – Albert Bouquillon • 1935 – Claude Bouscau • 1936 – André Greck • 1937 – Raymond Granville Barger? • 1937 – Maurice de Bus • 1938 – Adolphe Charlet • 1939 – René Leleu • 1942 – Maurice Gambier d'Hurigny • 1943 – Lucien Fenaux • 1944 – Francis Pellerin • 1945 – Pierre Thézé • 1946 – Gaston Watkin • 1947 – Léon Bosramiez • 1948 – Jacques Gotard • 1949 – Jean Lorquin • 1950 – Maurice Calka • 1951 – Albert Féraud • 1952 – Henri Derycke • 1953 – Alain Métayer • 1954 – Jacqueline Bechet-Ferber • 1955 – Kenneth Ford • 1956 – Claude Goutin • 1957 – Cyrille Bartolini • 1958 – Bruno Lebel • 1959 – Georges Jeanclos • 1960 – No award • 1961 – Glynn Williams • 1961 – Georges Maurice Dyens and André Barelier jointly • 1962 – No award • 1963 – Philippe Thill and Jacqueline Deyme jointly • 1964 – Louis Lutz • 1965 – No award • 1966 – Joséphine Chevry • 1967 – Michel Fargeot and Anne Houllevigue jointly • 1968 – Maryse Voisin (last award)

First Prize Winners in the Engraving category

19th century (engraving)

• 1804 – Claude-Louis Masquelier (first award) • 1805 – Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier • 1806 – Théodore Richomme • 1807 – Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux • 1810 – Durand • 1811 – Armand Corot • 1812 – Benjamin-Eugène Bourgeois • 1813 – Henri-François Brandt • 1814 – François Forster • 1815 – • 1816 – Jacques Joseph Coiny • 1817 – Joseph-Sylvestre Brun • 1818 – André-Benoit Taurel • 1819 – Ursin-Jules Vatinelle • 1820 – Constantin-Louis-Antoine Lorichon • 1823 – • 1824 – Antoine-François Gelée • 1826 – Pierre François Eugène Giraud • 1827 – No award • 1828 – Joseph-Victor Vibert • 1830 – Achille-Louis Martinet • 1831 – Eugène André Oudiné • 1832 – • 1834 – François Augustin Bridoux and Louis Adolphe Salmon • 1835 – Jean-Baptiste Eugène Farochon • 1836 – First prize not awarded • 1838 – Charles-Victor Normand and Victor Florence Pollet, jointly • 1839 – André Vauthier • 1840 – Jean-Marie Saint-Eve • 1842 – Louis-Désiré-Joseph Delemer • 1843 – Louis Merley • 1844 – Jean-Ernest Aubert • 1846 – Joseph-Gabriel Tourny • 1848 – Jacques-Martial Devaux; Louis-Félix Chabaud (postponed from 1847) • 1850 – Gustave Bertinot • 1852 – Charles-Alphonse-Paul Bellay • 1854 – Joseph-Paul-Marius Soumy • 1855 – Alphée Dubois • 1856 – Claude-Ferdinand Gaillard • 1860 – Jean Lagrange • 1861 – Jules-Clément Chaplain • 1866 – Charles-Jean-Marie Degeorge • 1868 – Charles-Albert Waltner • 1869 – Arthur Soldi • 1870 – Achille Jacquet • 1872 – Daniel Dupuis • 1875 – Oscar Roty • 1878 – Louis-Alexandre Bottée; Charles Théodore Deblois • 1881 – Henri-Auguste-Jules Patey • 1883 – William Barbotin • 1886 – Jean Patricot • 1887 – Frédéric-Charles-Victor de Vernon • 1888 – Henri Le Riche • 1890 – Charles Pillet • 1892 – Hippolyte Lefebvre • 1894 – Jean Antonin Delzers • 1896 – Arthur Mayeur • 1898 – Jean Coraboeuf • 1899 – René Grégoire • 1900 – Jean Antonin Delzers

20th century (engraving)

• 1902 – Lucien Pénat; Pierre-Victor Dautel • 1903 – Eugène Piron • 1904 – Louis Busiére • 1905 – Julien-Louis Mérot • 1906 – Henri-Lucien Cheffer; Raoul Serres • 1908 – • 1909 – Victor Hammer • 1910 – Jules Piel • 1912 – • 1914 – André Lavrillier • 1919 – Albert Decaris; Gaston Lavrillier • 1920 – Pierre Matossy • 1921 – Pierre Gandon • 1922 – Raymond-Jacques Brechenmacher • 1923 – Lucien Bazor • 1927 – Frederick George Austin • 1928 – Robert Cami ; Charles-Émile Pinson • 1929 – Aleth Guzman-Nageotte • 1930 – Jules Henri Lengrand • 1931 – Arthur Henderson Hall • 1932 – Louis Muller • 1934 – Paul Lemagny • 1935 – Albert de Jaeger • 1936 – • 1942 – Raymond Joly • 1945 – Raymond Tschudin • 1946 – Paul Guimezanes • 1948 – Jean Delpech • 1950 – Georges Arnulf • 1952 – Claude Durrens • 1957 – Émile Rousseau • 1960 – Jean Asselbergs ; Pierre Béquet • 1964 – Brigitte Courmes (the only woman to receive the "First Grand Prize" in engraving) • 1966 – Jean-Pierre Velly • 1968 – Michel Henri Viot (last award)

First Prize Winners in the Musical Composition category

The required composition was originally a cantata for solo voice and orchestra; later one male and female voice were specified; and later still three voices. Titles of the pieces have generally been restricted to "cantata", "lyric scene" or "dramatic scene".

19th century (musical composition)

• 1803 – Albert Androt • 1804 – First Prize not awarded • 1805 – Victor Dourlen ("first" First Grand Prize) and Ferdinand Gasse ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1806 – Guillaume Bouteiller • 1807 – First Prize not awarded • 1808 – Auguste Blondeau • 1809 – Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul • 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 – First Prize not awarded • 1817 – Désiré-Alexandre Batton • 1818 – First Prize not awarded • 1819 – Fromental Halévy ("first" First Grand Prize) and Jean Massin aka Turina ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1820 – Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne • 1821 – Victor Rifaut • 1822 – Joseph-Auguste Lebourgeois • 1823 – Édouard Boilly ("first" First Grand Prize) and Louis Ermel ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1824 – Auguste Barbereau • 1825 – Albert Guillon • 1826 – Claude Paris • 1827 – Jean-Baptiste Guiraud • 1828 – Guillaume Despréaux • 1829 – First Prize not 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 • 1835 – Ernest Boulanger (1815–1900) • 1836 – Xavier Boisselot (1811–1893) • 1837 – Louis Désiré Besozzi • 1838 – Georges Bousquet (1818–1854) • 1839 – Charles Gounod • 1840 – François Bazin • 1841 – Aimé Maillart • 1842 – Alexis Roger (1814–1846) • 1843 – First Prize not awarded • 1844 – Victor Massé (1822–1884) ("first" First Grand Prize) and Renaud de Vilbac ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1845 – First Prize not awarded • 1846 – Léon Gastinel • 1847 – Louis Deffès • 1848 – Jules Duprato • 1849 – First Prize not awarded • 1850 – Joseph Charlot • 1851 – Jean-Charles-Alfred Deléhelle • 1852 – Léonce Cohen • 1853 – Charles Galibert • 1854 – Adrien Barthe • 1855 – Jean Conte • 1856 – First Prize not awarded • 1857 – Georges Bizet ("first" First Grand Prize) and Charles Colin (1832–1881) ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1858 – Samuel David • 1859 – Ernest Guiraud • 1860 – Émile Paladilhe • 1861 – Théodore Dubois • 1862 – Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray • 1863 – Jules Massenet • 1864 – Victor Sieg • 1865 – Charles Lenepveu • 1866 – Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard (1843–1917) • 1867 – First prize not awarded • 1868 – Alfred Pelletier-Rabuteau ("first" First Grand Prize) and Eugène Wintzweiller ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1869 – Antoine Taudou • 1870 – Henri Maréchal ("first" First Grand Prize) and Charles-Édouard Lefebvre ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1871 – Gaston Serpette • 1872 – Gaston Salvayre • 1873 – Paul Puget • 1874 – Léon Ehrhart • 1875 – André Wormser • 1876 – Paul Hillemacher ("first" First Grand Prize) and Paul Véronge de La Nux (1853–1928) ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1877 – First Prize not awarded • 1878 – Clément Broutin ("first" First Grand Prize) and Samuel Rousseau (1853–1904) ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1879 – Georges Hüe • 1880 – Lucien Hillemacher • 1881 – First Prize not awarded • 1882 – Georges Marty ("first" First Grand Prize) and Gabriel Pierné ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1883 – Paul Vidal • 1884 – Claude Debussy • 1885 – Xavier Leroux • 1886 – Augustin Savard • 1887 – Gustave Charpentier • 1888 – Camille Erlanger • 1889 – First prize not awarded • 1890 – Gaston Carraud ("first" First Grand Prize) and Alfred Bachelet ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1891 – Charles Silver • 1892 – First prize not awarded • 1893 – André Bloch ("first" First Grand Prize) and Henri Büsser ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1894 – Henri Rabaud • 1895 – Omer Letorey • 1896 – Jules Mouquet • 1897 – Max d'Ollone • 1898 – First prize not awarded • 1899 – Charles-Gaston Levadé ("first" First Grand Prize) and Edmond Malherbe ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1900 – Florent Schmitt

20th century (musical composition)

• 1901 – André Caplet • 1902 – Aymé Kunc • 1903 – Raoul Laparra • 1904 – Raymond-Jean Pech • 1905 – Victor Gallois ("first" First Grand Prize) and Marcel Samuel-Rousseau ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1906 – Louis Dumas • 1907 – Maurice Le Boucher • 1908 – André Gailhard • 1909 – Jules Mazellier • 1910 – Noël Gallon • 1911 – Paul Paray • 1912 – First prize not awarded • 1913 – Lili Boulanger (the first woman to receive the "First Grand Prize" in music) and Claude Delvincourt jointly • 1914 – Marcel Dupré • 1915–1918 – WWI – No awards • 1919 – Marc Delmas ("first" First Grand Prize) and Jacques Ibert ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1920 – Marguerite Canal • 1921 – Jacques de La Presle • 1922 – First prize not awarded • 1923 – Jeanne Leleu ("first" First Grand Prize) and Francis Bousquet ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1924 – Robert Dussaut • 1925 – Louis Fourestier • 1926 – René Guillou • 1927 – Edmond Gaujac • 1928 – Raymond Loucheur • 1929 – Elsa Barraine • 1930 – Tony Aubin • 1931 – Jacques Dupont aka Jacque-Dupont • 1932 – Yvonne Desportes • 1933 – Robert Planel • 1934 – Eugène Bozza • 1935 – René Challan • 1936 – Marcel Stern • 1937 – Victor Serventi • 1938 – Henri Dutilleux • 1939 – Pierre Maillard-Verger • 1940 – No competition • 1941 – No competition • 1942 – Alfred Desenclos • 1943 – Pierre Sancan • 1944 – Raymond Gallois-Montbrun • 1945 – Marcel Bitsch ("first" First Grand Prize) and Claude Pascal ("second" First Grand Prize) • 1946 – Pierre Petit • 1947 – Jean-Michel Damase • 1948 – Odette Gartenlaub • 1949 – Adrienne Clostre • 1950 – Éveline Plicque-Andrani • 1951 – Charles Chaynes • 1952 – Alain Weber • 1953 – Jacques Castérède • 1954 – Roger Boutry • 1955 – Pierre Max Dubois • 1956 – Jean Aubain • 1957 – Alain Bernaud • 1958 – Noël Lancien • 1959 – Alain Margoni • 1960 – Gilles Boizard • 1961 – Christian Manen • 1962 – Alain Petitgirard • 1963 – Yves Cornière • 1964 – First prize not awarded • 1965 – Thérèse Brenet and Lucie Robert-Diessel jointly • 1966 – Monic Cecconi-Botella • 1967 – Michel Rateau • 1968 – Alain Louvier (last award)

Prix de Rome (Netherlands)

A Prix de Rome was also established in the Kingdom of Holland by Lodewijk Napoleon to award young artists and architects. During the years 1807–1810 prize winners were sent to Paris and onwards to Rome for study. In 1817, after the Netherlands had gained its independence, King Willem I restarted the prize; though it took until 1823 before the new "Royal Academies" of Amsterdam and Antwerp could organize the juries. Suspended in 1851 it was reinstated in 1870 by William III of the Netherlands. Since then the winners have been selected by the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam under the main headings of architecture and the visual arts.

Prix de Rome (Belgium)

The Belgian Prix de Rome (Dutch: Prijs van Rome) is an award for young artists, created in 1832, following the example of the original French Prix de Rome. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp organised the prize until 1920, when the national government took over. The first prize is also sometimes called the Grand Prix de Rome. There were distinct categories for architecture, painting, sculpture and music.