Société d'aquarellistes français


The Société d'aquarellistes français, or "society of French watercolourists", often referred to as the Société des aquarellistes français, was an association of painters in watercolour in nineteenth-century France. It held annual exhibitions of works by members; the first of these was held in the gallery of Paul Durand-Ruel at 16 rue Laffitte, Paris, in 1879. The society ceased to be active in 1896.

Members

In 1879 the honorary members of the society were the Prince de Joinville, Edouard André, Emmanuel Bocher, Maurice Cottier, Auguste Dreyfus, Alexandre Dumas, Viscount Étienne de Ganay, Viscount Henri Greffulhe, Alfred Hartmann, Baron Edmond de Rothschild and Count Samuel Welles de la Valette, and the ordinary members were Henri Baron, Charles-Édouard de Beaumont, Édouard Detaille, Gustave Doré, François-Louis Français, Ferdinand Heilbuth, Eugène Isabey, Jules Jacquemart, Roger Jourdain, Louis-Eugène Lambert, Eugène Lami, Louis Leloir, Maurice Leloir, Madeleine Lemaire, Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild, Jehan Georges Vibert and Jules Worms.
By 1890 the membership had expanded to include Emile Adan, Jean Béraud, Albert Besnard, Gaston Béthune, Emile Boilvin, Léon Bonnat, Maurice Boutet de Monvel, John-Lewis Brown, Charles Cazin, Max Claude, Georges Claude, Benjamin-Constant, Maurice Courant, Robert de Cuvillon, Charles Delort, Guillaume Dubufe, Ernest Duez, Nicolas Escalier, François Flameng, Emile Priant, Victor Gilbert, Lucien Gros, Henri Harpignies, Georges Jeanniot, Roger Jourdain, Eugène Lambert, Jean-Paul Laurens, Julien Le Blant, Léon Lhermitte, Auguste Loustaunau, Albert Maignan, Adrien Marie, Charles Meissonier, Eugène Morand, Adrien Moreau, Aimé Morot, Charles Olivier de Penne, Paul Pujol, James Tissot, Edmond Yon and Henri Zuber.