Academic Art

Academic Art (Art pompier) in painting and sculpture is that art produced with a polished style, using mythological, historical or oriental subjects. It is applied to those artworks influenced by the standards of, especially, the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) and the 19th century "Salons"; it is also called academic painting or academic sculpture. It is associated with Neoclassical Art.

Among Academic painters are: Paul Delaroche, Théodore Chassériau, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Charles Gleyre, Adolphe William Bouguereau (1825-1905) and among sculptors Jean-Pierre Cortot, Auguste Bartholdi and Emmanuel Frémiet.

Bouguereau, The Bohemian, 1890.

Bouguereau, Penelope.

Henri Gervex, Portrait Mlle Valtesse de la Bigne, 1879.