Jean-Victor Schnetz

Jean-Victor Schnetz, born April 14, 1787 in Versailles and died March 16, 1870 in Paris, was a French painter. He was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, then Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Antoine-Jean Gros and François Gérard. In 1837, Schnetz was elected to the Paris Academy of Fine Arts. Schnetz was director of the French Academy in Rome from 1841 to 1846, and was appointed a second time from 1853 to 1866. He encouraged fellows to paint from nature, in the surroundings of Rome, and no longer solely from plaster models in the studio. During his second directorship, the decree of 1863 greatly disrupted the regulations and relationship between the Académie de France in Rome and the Académie des Beaux-arts in Paris, which was stripped of most of its prerogatives.

1841-1846