The Société d'aquarellistes français (), often in uncontracted form as 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:
Prince de Joinville Édouard André Emmanuel Bocher Maurice Cottier Auguste Dreyfus Alexandre Dumas Viscount Étienne de Ganay Viscount Henri Greffulhe Alfred Hartmann Baron Edmond de Rothschild Count Samuel Welles de la Valette
In 1879, 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 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 Jean-Charles Cazin Max Claude Georges Claude Benjamin-Constant Maurice Courant Robert de Cuvillon Charles Édouard Delort Guillaume Dubufe Ernest Duez Nicolas Escalier François Flameng Émile Friant Victor Gilbert Lucien Gros Henri Harpignies Pierre-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 Henri Zuber
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[s.n.] (1890). Société d'aquarellistes français: Douzième exposition; rue de Sèze, 8: Catalogue (in French). Paris: Imprimerie de Ch. Gillot.
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