Louis Hourticq

In 1898, after completing his secondary studies at the Collège de Cognac, he went to Paris and entered the École Normale Supérieure.

During his first period in office, he attended conferences in England (1911) and North America (1912), then served as Commissioner General for the Exposition d'Art Français in São Paulo (1913).

Thanks to his doctoral thesis on the youth of Titian, published in 1919, he became a professor of art history and aesthetics at the École des Beaux-Arts.

He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1927; where he took Seat#5 in the "Unattached" section.

His notable writings include; De Poussin à Watteau, ou des origines de l'école parisienne de peinture, Hachette, 1921 (winner of the Charles-Blanc Prize, 1922), La Vie des images, Hachette, 1927, and L’Art et la Science.