Académie des Beaux-Arts

The Académie des Beaux-Arts (, "Academy of Fine Arts") is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The current President of the Academy (2016) is .
The Academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a merger of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648), the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671).