This article studies how the role of the concept of perfection in the elucidation of the concept of artistic beauty differs between Baumgarten’s and Kant’s aesthetic doctrine. For both, this beauty is linked to the purpose of the artistic object and the degree to which its configuration is arranged for said purpose determines its perfection. However, the philosophers draw conflicting conclusions from this: in Baumgarten the apprehension of this perfection in sensible discourse is artistic beauty, while in Kant the judgment of artistic beauty is influenced by the consideration of the perfection of the object, but perfection does not determine artistic beauty.