Ministry of the Imperial House and the
Fine Arts, and it was considered a
profession in the same way that
medicine or the law is a profession
today. A promising painter would start
at the École Nationale Supérieure des
Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he would
receive a rigorous and formal education,
progressing from the copying of
drawings to the painting of live models.
At each stage of his education, there
would be competitions. Those who did
poorly would be weeded out. Those
who did well would win awards and
prestigious fellowships, and at the
pinnacle of the profession was the
Salon, the most important art exhibition
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