Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts

Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts | Salon du Champ-de-Mars
1890 Headquarters
Years activeEstablished in 1862. Annual exhibitions began in 1890.
LocationFrance
Major figuresEugène Delacroix, Carrier-Belleuse, Puvis de Chavannes, Léon Bonnat, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Charles-François Daubigny, Gustave Doré, and Édouard Manet, Ernest Meissonier, Carolus-Duran, Bracquemond, Carrier-Belleuse,
InfluencesLikely inspired by the 1791 Champ de Mars Massacre, which killed 50 civilians in a clash with the military, and radicalized Paris as a result
InfluencedMultiple (art) Secessions in Munich (1892), Vienna (1897), and Berlin (1898)

Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA; French: [sɔsjete nɑsjɔnal boz‿aʁ]; English: National Society of Fine Arts) was the term under which two groups of French artists united, the first for some exhibitions in the early 1860s, the second since 1890 for annual exhibitions.