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About Société Libre des Beaux-Arts
Description of Société Libre des Beaux-Arts |
Société Libre des Beaux-Arts
Belgian
avant-garde
exhibition
society,
c.
1868–c.
1876.
Heir
to
the
earlier
tradition
of
art
clubs
and
free
studios
in
Belgium,
such
as
the
Académie
de
Saint-Luc
(c.
1846–63)
and
Jean-François
Portaels’s
free
studio
in
Brussels
(c.
1858),
it
provided
an
alternative
exhibition
site
to
the
official
Salon.
The
original
organizing
committee
of
16
members
is
shown
in
a
group
portrait
of
1874–5
by
Edmond
Lambrich
(1830–87;
Brussels,
Mus.
Ixelles).
It
included
Louis
Artan
de
Saint-Martin
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