French Painter

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painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Edmond Aman-Jean Edmond Aman-Jean (13 January 1858, Chevry-Cossigny – 25 January 1936, Paris) was a French symbolist painter, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923. Life His father was the owner and operator of an industrial lime kiln. He had hi ...

Albert André Albert André ( 24 May 1869 – 11 July 1954) was a French Post-Impressionist figurative painter. He produced portraits of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his closest friend, and Claude Monet. Biography Born in Lyon, he initially trained there designing ...

Mathuren Arthur Andrieu Mathurin or Mathurin Arthur Andrieu (1822 – 1896) was a French painter. His work included portraits, landscapes, scenery, and panoramas. He was born in Bordeaux, and studied at the French Royal Academy. He then came to the United States, bei ...

Charles Angrand Charles Angrand (19 April 1854 – 1 April 1926) was a French artist who gained renown for his Neo-Impressionist paintings and drawings. He was an important member of the Parisian avant-garde art scene in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Early li ...

Alexandre Antigna file:Alexandre-Antigna .JPG, Alexandre Antigna Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna (March 7, 1817 – February 26, 1878) was a French painter. Career Antigna was born in Orléans, France, where his earliest training took place, under a local pai ...

Louis-François Aubry Louis-François Aubry, who was born in Paris in 1770, studied under Vincent and Isabey, and became celebrated as a portrait painter. He exhibited at the Salon of 1810 portraits of the King and Queen of Westphalia, which were praised for their c ...

Joseph Aved Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (12 January 1702 – 4 March 1766), also called le Camelot (''The Hawker'') and Avet le Batave (''The Dutch Avet''), was a French painter of the 18th century and one of the main French Rococo portraitists. He pain ...

Rex Barrat Rex Paulain Jack Barrat (1914–1974) was a French artist known especially for his landscape paintings. He was born in Varzy (Nièvre, France) and died in Créteil. Artworks Barrat was known for his landscapes of Burgundy. His works belong to sev ...

Georges Barrière Georges Barrière (28 March 1881 in Chablis – 1944 in Đồ Sơn) was a French painter. He went to Paris at the age of 19 to follow the courses of Léon Bonnat and Jules Adler at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. His paintings were shown at the Salon ...

Cécile Bart Cécile Bart, (born 1958 Dijon, Côte-d'Or), is a French painter and visual artist. She lives and works in Marsannay-la-Côte. Life Cécile Bart enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts of Dijon in September 1982, where she met French conceptual ...

Adrien Bas Adrien Bas (16 April 1884, in Lyon – 2 May 1925, in Lyon) was a French painter and pastellist. He was primarily known for landscapes, but also painted flowers, still-lifes, interiors and some portraits. Biography His father was a weaver. He b ...

Jean René Bazaine Jean René Bazaine (21 December 1904 – 4 March 2001) was a French painter, designer of stained glass windows and writer. He was the great great grandson of the English Court portraitist Sir George Hayter. Studies Bazaine was born in Paris. He ...

Frédéric Bazille Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted ''en plein air''. ...

Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu (floruit, fl. c. 1770 - 1815) was a French painter. She was born at La Rochelle and studied painting under Jean-Baptiste Greuze. She established herself as a successful artist, specializing in historical and myth ...

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Amar Ben Belgacem Amar Ben Belgacem (June 18, 1979 – August 24, 2010) was a French-born Tunisia ) , image_map = Tunisia location (orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa , image_map2 ...

Andrée Belle Andrée Belle (?–?) was a French painter. Andrée Belle was born in Paris. She was a pupil of Jean-Charles Cazin (1840–1901). She painted in oils and pastels, landscapes especially, of which she exhibited seventeen in June, 1902. The large ...

Louis Émile Benassit Louis Émile Benassit (20 December 1833 – 9 August 1902) was a French artist and raconteur. He cut a colorful figure in the literary and artistic circles of Paris in the 1860s and 1870s, known equally for his satirical drawings and for his ...

Marcelle Bergerol Marcelle Bergerol (née Cahen) (1901 Paris - 1989 Boulogne-Billancourt) was a Post-Impressionism, post-impressionist French painter, specializing in paintings of France and Paris, Brittany, and the Quercy region of France. Bergerol took drawing ...

Antoine Berjon Antoine Berjon (17 May 1754 – 24 October 1843) was a French painter and designer, among the most important flower painters of 19th-century France. He worked in a variety of media including oil, pastel, watercolour, and ink. Berjon was born i ...

André Beronneau André Beronneau (1886–1973) was a French painter active during the first half of the 20th century. He is famous for his sumptuous French landscapes of southern Brittany and Provence.Benezit Dictionary of Artists in 14 volumes, Éditions Gründ, ...

Louis Béroud Louis Béroud (17 January 1852, Lyon – 9 October 1930, Paris) was a French painter of the late 19th, early 20th century. Some of his paintings are visible at the Musée Carnavalet and The Louvre in Paris. On 22 August 1911 Béroud came to The L ...

Jean-Baptiste Bertrand Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (25 March 1823 Lyon - 26 Sept 1887 Orsay, Seine-et-Oise), was a French painter and lithographer. At first he was a student of Étienne Rey (1789–1867) and later of Jean-Claude Bonnefond (1796–1860) at the École des Be ...

Louis-Léopold Boilly Louis-Léopold Boilly (; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French Painting, painter and draftsman. A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings vividly documenting French middle-class social ...

Leon Bonnat Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...

François Boucher François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...

Henri Bouchet-Doumenq Henri Bouchet-Doumenq (13 May 1834, Paris - 1884) (alternate spellings: Bouchet-Doumeng, Bouchet-Doumencq, Boucher-Doumencq, Boucher-Doumeng, Doumenq-Boucher) was a 19th-century French people, French painter who specialized in portraits and lan ...

William Bouguereau William-Adolphe Bouguereau (; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female ...

Gustave Boulanger Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (25 April 1824 – 22 September 1888) was a French figurative painter and academic artist and teacher known for his Classical and Orientalist subjects. Education and career The Néo-Grecs and the Prix de Rom ...

Valentin de Boulogne Valentin de Boulogne (before 3 January 1591 – 19 August 1632), sometimes referred to as Le Valentin, was a French painter in the tenebrist style. Origins Valentin was born in Coulommiers, France, where he was baptised in the parish of Sai ...

Louis Braquaval Louis Édouard Joseph Braquaval (24 October 1854 – 19 November 1919) was a French landscape and cityscape painter. Biography He was born in Lille into a family of wealthy industrialists and later married into another wealthy family. Originally ...

Georges Braque Georges Braque ( , ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century List of French artists, French painter, Collage, collagist, Drawing, draughtsman, printmaker and sculpture, sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his all ...

Bernard Buffet Bernard Buffet (; 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. He produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative. The artist enjoyed worldwide popularity early in his caree ...

Étienne Buffet Marie Étienne Pierre Paul Aimé Buffet, known as Étienne Buffet (5 June 1866 – 3 December 1948), was a French painter. Biography He was born in Paris, the son of Louis Aimé Buffet (1821–1900), who was Inspector General of Bridges and Hig ...

Gustave Caillebotte Gustave Caillebotte (; 19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group. Caillebotte was known for his early ...

Philippe Calandre Philippe Calandre (born 1964) is a French artist who combines photography, painting, and video. Early life Calandre was born in Avignon, France in 1964. By the age of 16, Calandre was able to work for two years as a shipman. While taking ...

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (born Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse; 12 June 1824 – 4 June 1887) was a French sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was made an officer of the Legion of H ...

Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (4 July 1848 – 14 June 1913) was a French painter and sculptor. He was son and pupil of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, and the brother of painter Pierre Carrier-Belleuse. He designed the patterns of the '' ...

Eugène Carrière Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the fin-de-siècle period. Carrière's paintings are best known for their near-monochrome brown palette and their ethereal, dreamlike quality. He ...

Clément Castelli Clément Castelli (14 January 1870 – 1959) was a French painter. Biography Clément Castelli was born on 14 January 1870 in Premia, Italy. He was a member of the Mountain Painters Society. He moved to Paris in 1880, and studied under Jules Adler ...

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...

Charles-Michel-Ange Challe Charles-Michel-Ange Challe (born in Paris on 13 February 1718; died 8 January 1778) was a painter, draftsman and French architect. Having studied with Boucher and Le Moyne, he was one of the most appreciated painters of his time and enjoyed a ...

Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne Jean Baptiste de Champaigne (10 December 1631, in Brussels – 27 October 1681, in Paris), was a Flemish Baroque painter and teacher. Biography According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), he was the nephew of Philippe de ...

Jean Chardin Jean Chardin (16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book ''The Travels of Sir John Chardin'' is regarded as one of the finest ...

Jean Siméon Chardin Jean Siméon Chardin (; November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic act ...

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French people, French Painting, painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Soci ...

Antoine Chintreuil Antoine Chintreuil (May 15, 1814 – August 8, 1873) was a French landscape painter. He was among the starving artists who lived ''la vie de bohéme'' in Paris in the 1840s, as popularized by his friend and fellow Bohemian, the novelist Henri Murg ...

Félix Auguste Clément Félix Auguste Clément (20 May 1826, Donzère - 2 February 1888, Algiers) was a French painter, known primarily for his Orientalist scenes. Biography His first studies were at the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon with Jean-Claude Bonnef ...

Alphonse Colas Alphonse-Victor Colas (25 September 1818, Lille - 11 July 1887, Lille) was a French painter and art teacher. He specialized in portraits and religious art. Life and work He was the fifth of seven children born to Jean-Joseph Colas (1779–185 ...

Nicolas Colombel Nicolas Colombel (c. 1644 – 1717) was a French painter, much influenced by Poussin. Life Colombel was born at Sotteville, near Rouen, in about 1644. He went to Rome when quite young, and remained there until 1692, forming his style by a st ...

Charles-Fernand de Condamy Charles-Fernand de Condamy (1855-1913) was a French people, French animal painter.Gérald Schurr, ''1820-1920, les petits maîtres de la peinture, valeur de demain 1820-1920'', Éditions de l'Amateur, 1986, p. 87 References

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Lydia Corbett Lydia Corbett (born Sylvette David, 14 November 1934) is a French artist and former model (art), artist's model known for being "the girl with the ponytail" in Pablo Picasso's ''Sylvette'' series of paintings and Sylvette, a 1970 sculpture. Ea ...

Frédéric Samuel Cordey Frédéric Samuel Cordey (1854–1911) was a French landscape painter who was a part of the Impressionist movement. He was a close friend of Auguste Renoir, and had a personal fortune that allowed him to work according to his taste, regardle ...

Fernand Cormon Fernand Cormon (24 December 1845 – 20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France. Biograph ...

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast ...

Pierre Auguste Cot Pierre Auguste Cot (; 17 February 1837 – 2 August 1883) was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school. Life and career Cot was born in Bédarieux, Hérault, and initially studied at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse before going t ...

Charles Cottet Charles Cottet (12 July 1863 – 20 September 1925) was a French painter, born at Le Puy-en-Velay and died in Paris. A famed post-impressionist, Cottet is known for his dark, evocative painting of rural Brittany and seascapes. He led a scho ...

Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...

Jean Cousin the Elder Jean Cousin (1500 – before 1593) was a French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician. He is known as "Jean Cousin the Elder" to distinguish him from his son Jean Cousin the Younger, also an artist. Career Cousin was born at ...

Jean Cousin the Younger Jean Cousin the Younger ("le jeune", sometimes given as Jehan in the old style instead of Jean) (ca. 1522–1595) was born in Sens, France around 1522, the son of the famous painter and sculptor Jean Cousin the Elder ca. 1490–ca. 1560) who ...

Thomas Couture Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge,Wilkinson, Burke. ''The Life and Works of A ...

Joseph Crepin Joseph Crépin (1875–1948) was a French painter and close friend of the famed coal miner and artist Augustin Lesage. Crépin's work is considered to be part of Art Brut, and he is often characterized as an outsider artist. His paintings and d ...

Albert Dagnaux Albert Marie Adolphe Dagnaux (10 July 1861 in Paris – 22 November 1933 in Mantes-la-Jolie) was a French landscape, tableaux and figure painter. Biography His father was the owner of a small restaurant, "Le Dagnaux", in the 6th arrondissement ...

Augustine Dallemagne Virginie Polyxène Augustine Philippe Dallemagne, a French miniature painter, whose maiden name was Decagny, was a native of Beauvais Beauvais ( , ; pcd, Bieuvais) is a city and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise dépa ...

Charles-François Daubigny Charles-François Daubigny ( , , ; 15 February 181719 February 1878) was a French painter, one of the members of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism. He was also a prolific printmaker, mostly in etchin ...

Adrien Dauzats Adrien Dauzats (16 July 1804 – 18 February 1868) was a French landscape, genre painter and painter of Oriental subject matter. He travelled extensively throughout the Middle East and illustrated a number of books for the travel writer, Baron Tay ...

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

Adolphe Déchenaud Adolphe Déchenaud (28 June 1868, Saint-Ambreuil – 27 December 1926, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French painter who specialized in Biblical/historical scenes and portraits. Biography He was the son of a Parisian restaurateur, born while his m ...

Johan Stephan Decker Johann Stephan Decker (Colmar, 1784 - Vienna, 1844) was an Alsatian French painter. At the age of twenty he went to Paris, where he studied under Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Jacques Karpff, but at the end of seven years he returned to his nat ...

Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints and drawings. Degas is es ...

Alfred Dehodencq Alfred Dehodencq (23 April 1822 – 2 January 1882; born Edmé-Alexis-Alfred Dehodencq) is a French Orientalist painter known for his vivid oil paintings of Andalusian and North African scenes. Life Dehodencq was born in Paris on 23 April 1822. ...

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: Britis ...

Édouard Delaporte Édouard Delaporte (14 November 1909 – 6 July 1983) was a French painter, architect, and sculptor. Biography Delaporte was born in Paris in 1909. In 1929, at age 20, he began painting. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieur ...

Paul Delaroche Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English ...

Jules-Élie Delaunay Jules-Élie Delaunay (; June 13, 1828 – September 5, 1891) was a French academic painter. Biography He was born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique ''département'' of France. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux ...

Robert Delaunay Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstra ...

André Derain André Derain (, ; 10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. Biography Early years Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. I ...

Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays or Deshayes (1729 – 10 February 1765) was a French painter of religious and mythological subjects. Life Deshays was born in Colleville, near Rouen. His first training was under his father, the minor Rouen ...

Henry d'Estienne Henry d'Estienne (1872 in Conques-sur-Orbiel – 1949 in Paris) was a French painter and a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Biography Henry d'Estienne was the son of a French sculptor. left, ''Portrait de Grand-mère'' (1899) D'Est ...

Édouard Detaille Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille (; 5 October 1848 – 23 December 1912) was a French academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. He was regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army". Biogra ...

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (20 August 180718 November 1876) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. Early life Diaz was born in Bordeaux to Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his early y ...

Étienne Dinet Nasreddine Dinet (born as Alphonse-Étienne Dinet on 28 March 1861 – 24 December 1929, Paris) was a French orientalist painter and was one of the founders of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes ociety for French Orientalist Painters He ...

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...

Suzanne Duchamp Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (20 October 1889 – 11 September 1963) was a French Dadaist painter, collagist, sculptor, and draughtsman. Her work was significant to the development of Paris Dada and modernism and her drawings and collages explore f ...

Georges Dufrénoy Georges Dufrénoy (June 20, 1870December 9, 1943) was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism. Biography He was born in Thiais, France. His family lived at 2 Place des Vosges in Paris in a historic 17th-century building in ...

Henri-Julien Dumont Henri-Julien Dumont (18591921) was a French impressionist painter, born in Beauvais, Oise. His works were exhibited at the Salon and the Société des Artistes Indépendants. Henri-Julien Dumont's paintings were rewarded in 1900 with a bronze med ...

Joseph Siffred Duplessis Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (22 September 1725 – 1 April 1802) was a French painter known for the clarity and immediacy of his portraits. Early life He was born in Carpentras, near Avignon, into a family with an artistic bent and received his ...

Jules Dupré Jules Louis Dupré (April 5, 1811 – October 6, 1889) was a French painter, one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré i ...

Charles Eschard Charles Eschard (1748 - 1810) was a French painter, draftsman and engraver. Eschard began his art training at the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen, Rouen Academy of Arts directed by Jean-Baptiste Descamps. He then went to s ...

Bracha L. Ettinger Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (born March 23, 1948) is an Israeli artist, painter and writer, visual analyst, psychoanalyst and philosopher, living and working in Paris and Tel Aviv. She is regarded as a major French feminist theorist and pr ...

Henri Fantin-Latour Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithography, lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. Biography He was born Ignace Henri Jean Théodo ...

Auguste Feyen-Perrin François Nicolas Augustin Feyen, known as Auguste Feyen-Perrin (12 April 1826, Bey-sur-Seille - 14 October 1888, Paris) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. He added his mother's maiden name to Feyen to help distinguish himself from h ...

Clara Filleul Clara Pauline Filleul, also Clara Filleul de Pétigny, (née Claire Pauline Filleul) (1822–1878) was a French painter and children's writer. Together with the painter Raymond Monvoisin she travelled to South America in the late 1840s, becoming ...

Hélène Feillet Joséphine Jeanne Hélène Feillet (2 November 1812 – 9 December 1889) was a French painter and lithographer. She is remembered in particular for the vignettes she engraved for albums illustrating Bayonne and the Basque Country. She was also ...

Jean Fernand Jean Fernand (born 19 November 1948) is a French impressionist painter, lithographer, sculptor and illustrator. History Jean Fernand was born in 1948 in Orly, south of Paris. His parents, who were Parisians, managed an industrial laundry. Wh ...

Charles Filiger Charles Filiger (28 November 1863, Thann – 11 January 1928, Brest) was a French Symbolist painter. He was one of the artists who associated with Gauguin at Pont-Aven in Brittany. Biography The son of a wallpaper manufacturer in Mulhouse, Fili ...

Rosalie Filleul Rosalie Filleul (1752 – June 24, 1794) was a French pastellist and painter. She was born in Paris, and was concierge of the Château de la Muette. Although she initially supported the French Revolution, she nevertheless became disillusioned b ...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard Jean-Honoré Fragonard (; 5 April 1732 (birth/baptism certificate) – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific ar ...

Pierre Édouard Frère Pierre Édouard Frère (10 January 1819, Paris – 23 May 1886 Écouen), was a French genre painter. Biography Frère studied under Paul Delaroche, entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1836 and exhibited first at the Salon in 1843. Among his c ...

Émile Friant Émile Friant (16 April 1863 – 9 June 1932) was a French artist. Friant was born in the commune of Dieuze. He would later be forced to flee to Nancy by the encroachment of the Kingdom of Prussia's soldiers. He exhibited paintings througho ...

Eugène Fromentin Eugène Fromentin (24 October 182027 August 1876) was a French painter and writer, now better remembered for his writings. Life He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. ...

Pierre Gandon Pierre Gandon was a French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps. He was born on 20 January 1899 in L'Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) and died on 23 July 1990. Youth His father Gaston Gandon was himself an engraver at the Institut de gravure o ...

Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...

François Gérard François Pascal Simon Gérard (, 4 May 1770 – 11 January 1837), titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a prominent French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was It ...

Félix-Henri Giacomotti Félix-Henri Giacomotti (19 November 1828 – 10 May 1909) was a French painter and muralist of Italian ancestry who specialized in historical and religious works. Biography He was born in Quingey. His parents were from Italy and he becam ...

Georges Gimel Georges Gimel (March 8, 1898 – January 21, 1962), was a French expressionist painter of portraits, landscapes, mountain landscapes, still lifes and flowers. He was also a wood carver, lithographer, illustrator, set designer, sculptor, and e ...

Alain Godon Alain Godon is a French painter and sculptor. Biography Alain Godon was born 1 November 1964 in Bourges, France, and learned to draw at the age of 11 in Achicourt, France, at the side of his artist uncle. In 1985 he moved to Paris and then to B ...

Eugène Goyet Eugène Goyet (February 7, 1798—May 7, 1857), was a French artist. Beginning in 1827 his work was regularly selected for exhibition in the annual Paris Salon. He achieved his greatest success as a painter of religious subjects, with his paintings ...

Zoé Goyet Zoé Goyet (died 8 July 1869) was a French portrait painter, pastel artist, and teacher. Her works were exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1834 to 1841. She was the wife of painter Eugène Goyet and daughter-in-law of painter Jean-Baptiste Goyet. ...

Jean-Baptiste Goyet Jean-Baptiste Goyet or J.-B. Goyet (10 May 1779 — 20 June 1854) was a self-taught French artist. Beginning in 1827 his work was regularly selected for exhibition in the annual Paris Salon. His genre paintings—variously sentimental, satiri ...

Jean-Pierre Granger Jean-Pierre Granger (11 March 1779, in Paris – 1 December 1840, in Paris) was a French painter who worked in the Neo-Classical style. He is primarily known for portraits, history paintings and mythological scenes, but also created numerous reli ...

Antoine-Jean Gros Antoine-Jean Gros (; 16 March 177125 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was given title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French R ...

Gabriel Guay Gabriel Guay (October 14, 1848 – September 15, 1923), whose full name was Julien Gabriel Guay, was a French painter and teacher. From 1873 he exhibited works at the annual Paris Salon. He painted portraits, and also scenes inspired by literature ...

François Guiguet François Joseph Guiguet (8 January 1860 – 3 September 1937) was a French painter. Biography He was born in Corbelin. His father was a joiner and he was the fifth of twelve children. Although he drew from an early age, it was intended th ...

Armand Guillaumin Armand Guillaumin (; February 16, 1841 – June 26, 1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer. Biography Early years Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending eveni ...

Alvaro Guillot Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) was an artist born in Uruguay. He was a notable exponent of the "new surrealist school". Guillot's post-surrealist late 20th and early 21st century acrylics and oils celebrated New Mexico landscapes, cats, horses, bov ...

Fulchran-Jean Harriet Fulchran-Jean Harriet (1776 – 9 September 1805) was a French academic painter. Life He was born in Paris. A student of David, he won the Prix de Rome in 1793 with ''Brutus, killed in battle, is brought back to Rome'', and in 1798 with a painti ...

I.J. Berthe Hess I.J. Berthe Hess (4 November 1925 - 6 April 1996) was a French people, French-born painter recognized for having created the Bertisme technique, which involves the "sculpting" by brush of great quantities of oil paint on canvas. Early life I.J. ...

Anne Marguerite Hyde de Neuville Anne Marguérite, Baroness Hyde de Neuville (born Henriette Anne Marguérite Joséphine Rouillé de Marigny, May 10, 1771 - September 14, 1849 ) was a French Aristocracy (class), aristocrat and self-taught watercolorist and artist. She is best k ...

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ...

Étienne Jeaurat Étienne Jeaurat (9 February 1699, Vermenton – 14 December 1789, Versailles (city), Versailles) was a French painter, above all remembered for his lively street scenes. Early life Born in Vermenton near Auxerre, Jeaurat became an orphan at an ...

Henri de Jordan Henri de Jordan (September 13, 1944 – January 31, 1996), was a French painter. Most of Henri de Jordan's career spans from 1970 to 1996. Biography Family Henri de Jordan was born on September 13, 1944, in Algiers. From a painter father an ...

Jean Jouvenet Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet (1 May 1644 – 5 April 1717) was a French painter, especially of religious subjects. Biography He was born into an artistic family in Rouen. His first training in art was from his father, Laurent Jouvenet; a generation ea ...

Pierre Laffillé Pierre Laffillé was a French painter, (June 1, 1938 – June 4, 2011) born at Envermeu, Seine-Maritime. Biography Pierre Laffillé studied at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1956. He then studied at the École nationale supérieure des B ...

Louis Lafitte Louis Lafitte (November 15, 1770 in Paris – August 3, 1828 in Paris) was a French painter, designer, illustrator and muralist. Biography He was the son of a master barber. In 1778, his father offered refuge to the painter Simon Mathurin La ...

Antonio de La Gándara Antonio de La Gándara (16 December 186130 June 1917) was a French painter, pastellist and draughtsman. La Gándara was born in Paris, France, but his father was of Spanish ancestry, born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and his mother was from Engl ...

Pierre Lamalattie Pierre Lamalattie (born 1956 in Paris) is a French painter, novelist and art critic. He lives and works in Paris. Early life Although he learnt painting with grandmother Marguerite Juille and the artist Léo Lotz, he studied science. In 1975 ...

Espérance Langlois Louise Marguerite Espérance Langlois (19 October 1805 – 4 December 1864) was a French painter and printmaker. From her marriage to the lawyer and businessman Jean-Adrien Bourlet de la Vallée she was also known as Espérance Bourlet de la V ...

Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (; 3 August 1777 – 29 September 1837) was a celebrated French painter, draftsman, engraver and writer. He became known as the "Norman Callot". He taught both his daughter Espérance Langlois and his son Polyclès ...

Polyclès Langlois Polyclès Langlois (29 September 1814 – 30 November 1872) was a French writer, draughtsman and painter. Biography Polyclès Langlois was born in Pont de l'Arche in Normandy on 29 September 1814. He was the son of Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlo ...

Langlois de Sézanne Claude Louis Langlois (13 June 1757 – c. 1845), known as Langlois de Sézanne, was a French portraitist and pastel artist. His portrait of Madame Morel is held by the Musée Antoine Vivenel, Compiègne. Born in Sézanne, he was the son of Clau ...

François Lanzi François Lanzi (5 July 1916 – 13 November 1988) was a French-born artist who lived a large part of his adult life in the United Kingdom. His life He was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on 5 July 1916, to Laurent Lanzi and Clementine Sartoni. ...

Gaston La Touche Gaston La Touche, or de La Touche (24 October 1854 – 12 July 1913), was a French painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor. Biography His family originally came from Normandy. He was born in Saint-Cloud. His passion for art began at a very ...

Joseph Latour Joseph, Pierre, Tancrède Latour (April 17, 1806 - March, 1 mars 1863) was a French Romantic drawer and painter. His works are hosted by several museums in South of France. From the École des Beaux-Arts of Toulouse, he teaches drawing at th ...

Jean-Paul Laurens Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Biography Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexand ...

Jules Laurens Jules Joseph Augustin Laurens, commonly known as Jules Laurens, (26 July 1825, Carpentras - 5 May 1901, Saint-Didier, Vaucluse) was a French artist in drawing, painting, and lithography who is remembered above all for his orientalism, Oriental wo ...

Charles Lebayle Charles Lebayle (28 May 1856, in Paris – 22 January 1898, in Paris) was a French painter and designer, who is mostly known for his collaborations with stained glass makers. Biography His father ran a window dresser, window dressing and deco ...

Fernand Léger Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...

Louis Le Nain The three Le Nain brothers were painters in 17th-century France: Antoine Le Nain (c.1600–1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1603–1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). They produced genre works, portraits and portrait miniatures. Lives and work The ...

Charles-Amable Lenoir Charles-Amable Lenoir (22 October 1860 – 1926) was a French painter. Like his mentor, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, he was an academic painter and painted realistic portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes. His artistic career ...

Eugène Lepoittevin Eugène Lepoittevin (31 July 1806 – 6 August 1870), also known as Poidevin, Poitevin, and Le Poittevin, was a French artist who achieved an early and lifelong success as a landscape and maritime painter. His work ranged from erotic caricatures t ...

Xavier Leprince Auguste-Xavier Leprince (August 28, 1799 – December 26, 1826) was a French artist and painter who attained celebrity at the age of seventeen. His patrons included the Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, Duchesse de Berry, ...

Alfred Lesbros Alfred Lesbros (1873–1940) was a French painter born in Montfavet, near Avignon, France. He painted approximately a thousand works that can be seen in museums and public collections in Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Avignon, Marseille, Montpellier ...

Eustache Lesueur Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur (19 November 161730 April 1655) was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. He is known primarily for his paintings of religious subjects. He was a leading exponent of the neoclas ...

Pierre Le Tellier Pierre Le Tellier (1614, Vernon, Eure, Vernon – c. 1702, Rouen) was a French painter. Nephew and student of Nicolas Poussin, Poussin, Pierre Le Tellier spent 14 years at his side in Rome. He painted many paintings distinguished for their simpl ...

Louis Levacher Louis Levacher (15 August 1934, Fécamp – 7 March 1983, Harfleur) was a French painter and sculptor. Lineage The Levacher family is first mentioned in Contremoulins archives circa the late 18th century and appears to originate from the ...

Jacques Linard Jacques Linard (1597, Troyes - September 1645, Paris) was a French painter who specialized in still-lifes. Biography Linard was baptised on 6 September 1597. His first records of being of artist was in the 1620s. He was married in 1626 to the ...

Louis-Anselme Longa Louis-Anselme Longa (4 April 1809 – 13 December 1869) was a French genre artist in the Academic style. He also created numerous church paintings, but is best known for his Orientalist works. Biography He studied design in Paris with Paul Del ...

Évariste Vital Luminais Évariste Vital Luminais (; 13 October 1821 – 10 or 15 May 1896"LUMINAIS, E. V.", ''Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers'', rev. ed. George C. Williamson, Volume 3, New York: Macmillan / London: Bell, 1904, p. 258) was a French ...

Richard Maguet Richard Maguet (7 March 1896, Amiens – 16 June 1940, Sully-sur-Loire) was a French Post-Impressionist painter. Biography He was born to a middle-class family of modest means. His first trip to Paris came in 1913. There, with a recommendatio ...

André Maire André Maire (1898 in Le Marais, Paris – 1984) was a French painter. Formally a student of André Devambez at the Beaux-Arts of Paris, his true debt was to Émile Bernard, though he belonged to no school. He lived for 13 years in Indochina ...

Jacques Majorelle Jacques Majorelle (7 March 1886 – 14 October 1962), son of the celebrated Art Nouveau furniture designer Louis Majorelle, was a French painter. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy in 1901 and later at the Académie Julian in Paris ...

Eugène de Malbos Eugène de Malbos (21 August 1811 – 29 May 1858) was a French Romantic painter known for his lithographs of the Pyrenees. Some of his works are hosted by the Paul-Dupuy Museum in Toulouse. His signature is : “E. de Mal.”. Selected work ...

Vincent Manago Vincent Manago (1880–1936) was a French painter specialised on Landscape art, landscapes, Marine art, marines and Genre art, genre paintings of the Mediterranean coast (Port de Martigues, La Rochelle, Venice) of Orientalism, oriental style. B ...

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born ...

Adrien Manglard Adrien is a given name and surname, and the French spelling for the name Adrian. It is also the masculine form of the feminine name Adrienne. It may refer to: People Given name * Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), French astronomer * Adrien Baille ...

Pierre Marcel-Béronneau Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau (1869–1937) was a French Symbolist painter. He first worked at the École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux at the same time as Fernand Sabatté then became "one of the most brilliant students" of Gustave Moreau at ...

Prosper Marilhat Antoine-George-Prosper Marilhat, usually known as Prosper Marilhat, (26 March 1811 – 13 September 1847) was a French Orientalist painter. Many of his most successful works were based on the sketches he drew during the time he spent in Egypt i ...

Paul Marny Paul Marny (1829–1914) was a British–French artist. Life Marny was born in Paris; his real name may have been Paul François or Charles Paul Goddard. He worked in the theatre, and as a porcelain decorator for the Sèvres factory, before mov ...

Henri Marret Henri Justin Marret,(February 15, 1878 – July 25, 1964) was a French painter and engraver. He was born in Paris and died in Fourqueux (Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France ...

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prima ...

Pierre Mignard Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called "Mignard le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits. He was a ...

Ksenia Milicevic Ksenia Milicevic (born September 15, 1942) is a French painter, architect and town planner. She is based in Paris, with a studio in Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre and also maintains a base in South West France. Life Ksenia Milicevic was born in ...

Benoît-Hermogaste Molin Benoît-Hermogaste Molin (born 1810 in Chambéry-1894) was a Savoyard and French painter, portraitist, genre painter and History painter. He studied at the School of Paintings in Chambéry, his native town. He became a pupil of Gros in Paris. He ...

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

Jules Monge Jules Monge (25 December 18551 July 1934) was a French painter. Biography He was a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Édouard Detaille and . He exhibited in Paris at the Salon des artistes français from 1881 to 1933 and achieved many successes. He ...

Nicolas-André Monsiau Nicolas-André Monsiau (1754 – 31 May 1837) was a French history painter and a refined draughtsman who turned to book illustration to supplement his income when the French Revolution disrupted patronage. His '' Poussiniste'' drawing style and co ...

Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau (; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".Cassou, Jean. 1979. ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Symbolism.' ...

Berthe Morisot Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly es ...

Zareh Moskofian Zareh Moskofian ( hy, Զարեհ Մոսքոֆեան, 1898 in Izmit, Ottoman Empire – 1987 in Lyon, France ) was an Ottoman painter of Armenian descent. Life Of Armenian descent, Moskofian was born in Izmit. He attended the local Armenian sch ...

Henri-Paul Motte Henri-Paul Motte (13 December 1846 – 1 April 1922) was a French painter from Paris, who specialised in history painting and historical genre. Motte was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and began to exhibit at the Paris Salon from 1874 onw ...

Louis Nattero Louis Alexandre Marie Nattero (16 October 1870 – 10 November 1915 in Marseilles) was a French painter. He was known for his sea and port pictures and depictions of local street scenes and children. He also painted the Port of Toulon Tou ...

Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852–1941) was a French painter known mainly for paintings of still life and animals, especially cats. His works are in museums at Béziers, Brest, Chateau Thierry, and Louviers. Brunel de Neuville is buri ...

Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (31 May 183518 May 1885) was a French academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the ...

Joseph de La Nézière Joseph de La Nézière (1873–1944) was a French people, French painter noted for painting Orientalist scenes and for his work with the French Colonial Office and its program to reform the arts industries in colonial France. Biography Joseph ...

Jean Nicolle Jean Nicolle (19 July 1614 - 12 April 1650) was a French Normans, Norman painter and musician. Jean Nicolle was born in Louviers in 1614, the fourth child of Louis Nicolle and Marguerite Coyplet. Both his father Louis and his uncle, Marin Nicolle ...

Boris O'Klein Boris O'Klein, born Arthur 'Boris' Klein, (Moscow, September 26, 1893 – 1985), a French artist and cartoonist. An anthropomorphic artist, he is known for his numerous prints and watercolors of dogs getting up to mischief. The prints are genera ...

Jean-Baptiste Olive Jean-Baptiste Olive ( – 1936) was a French painter. Biography Olive, the son of a wine merchant, was born in Marseille's Saint-Martin neighbourhood. Étienne Cornellier, a decorator, encouraged him to register at École des beaux-arts de Ma ...

Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Ch ...

Gen Paul Gen Paul (July 2, 1895 – April 30, 1975) was a French painter and engraver. Biography Born as Eugène Paul in a house in Montmartre on the Rue Lepic painted by Van Gogh, he began drawing and painting as a child. His father died when he was o ...

Fernand Pelez Fernand Pelez (January 18, 1843 – August 7, 1913) was a French painter of Spanish origin who worked in Paris. Pelez portrayed social issues in a realistic style. Biography Pelez was born in Paris. His father, Fernand Pelez de Cordova (182 ...

Jacques Pellegrin Jacques Pellegrin (12 June 1873, Paris – 12 August 1944) was a French zoologist. In Paris, he worked under zoologist Léon Vaillant (chair of reptiles and fishes) at the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle''. From 1897, Pellegrin served a ...

Edmond Marie Petitjean Edmond Marie Petitjean (5 July 1844, Neufchâteau, Vosges, Neufchâteau – 7 August 1925, Paris) was a self-taught French painter; known for landscapes and seascapes. Biography His father was a lawyer and wanted him to follow suit; forcing hi ...

Hippolyte Petitjean Hippolyte Petitjean (11 September 1854, Mâcon – 18 September 1929, Paris) was a French Post-Impressionist painter who practiced the technique of pointillism. Biography When he was 13, Petitjean began his art studies at the ''Ecole de dessi ...

Alexis Peyrotte Alexis Peyrotte (1699 - 1769) was a French decorator painter. Peyrotte was born in Avignon, and was the son of a sculptor. Early in his career he painted in the region of Carpentras parishes and congregations. He participated with Joseph Dupless ...

Francis Picabia Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism ...

François-Édouard Picot François-Édouard Picot (; 10 October 1786 in Paris – 15 March 1868 in Paris) was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects. Life Born in Paris, Picot won the Prix de Rome paintin ...

Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but t ...

Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a ...

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French people, French Painting, painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Soci ...

Jean Puy Jean Puy (8 November 1876 in Roanne, Loire – 6 March 1960 in Roanne) was a French Fauvist artist. Life and work He studied architecture at the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon and painting with Jean-Paul Laurens at l' Académie Julia ...

Léon Printemps Léon Printemps (26 May 1871 – 9 July 1945) was a French artist known best for his work as a portrait and landscape painter. Biography Léon Printemps was born in Paris to a family which originally hailed from Lille. From an early age he was ...

Quentin de La Tour Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV of France, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour. ...

Yehiel Rabinowitz Yehiel Rabinowitz (born March 1939) is a Paris-based sculptor and painter. He has created a number of mural paintings and ceramic tile murals in public and private spaces throughout France, Spain, and Belgium. He is also responsible for creat ...

Odilon Redon Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; ; 20 April 18406 July 1916) was a French Symbolism (arts), symbolist painter, printmaker, Drawing, draughtsman and pastellist. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, he ...

Jean-Baptiste Regnault Jean-Baptiste Regnault (9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter. Biography Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to I ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "R ...

Charles-Caïus Renoux Charles-Caius Renoux (born in Paris, 1795; died in Paris, 14 March 1846) was a French painter, lithographer, and illustrator. He first achieved success with paintings of medieval churches, particularly the ruins of cloisters and monasteries destro ...

Eustache Restout Eustache Restout (12 November 1655, in Caen – 1 November 1743, in Mondaye) was a French architect, engraver, painter and Premonstratensian canon regular, belonging to the artistic Restout dynasty. At his death he was sub-prior of abbaye Sai ...

Philippe Richard Philippe Richard (24 June 1891 – 24 December 1973) was a French film and theater actor. Richard was born in Saint-Étienne and began his film career in the early 1920s in silent film. In 1948 he starred in the film '' The Lame Devil'' under S ...

Jeff Roland Jeff Roland (born 16 June 1969 in Longeville-lès-Metz, Moselle, France) is a French artist and curator, known for his characteristic bold, colourful pieces fusing aspects of the raw style with contemporary literary and visual references. He i ...

Bernard Rosenblum Bernard Rosenblum (1927–2007) was a Master Craftsman Gilder and Art Restorer of the List of national museums, National Museums, the successor of the workshop Gainerie (word with no English translation:"Leather Crafts Arts") Bettenfeld. He ...

Édouard Rosset-Granger Paul Édouard Rosset-Granger (9 July 1853 – 26 July 1934) was a French genre and portrait painter who adopted the academic style. Biography Rosset-Granger was born in 1853 Vincennes. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under A ...

Georges Rouault Georges Henri Rouault (; 27 May 1871, Paris – 13 February 1958) was a French painter, draughtsman and print artist, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. Childhood and education Rouault was born in Paris into a po ...

Théodore Rousseau Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812December 22, 1867) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. Life Youth He was born in Paris, France in a bourgeois family. At first he received a basic level of training, but soon displaye ...

Monique de Roux Monique de Roux (born 1946 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French painter and engraver. She lives and works in Spain. Biography Sister of the writer Dominique de Roux, of the sailor Jacques de Roux, of the lawyer and politician Xavier de Roux a ...

Henri Royer Henri Paul Royer (22 January 1869, Nancy – 31 October 1938, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French painter, remembered especially for his genre works from Brittany. Painter of genre, portraitist and landscape artist, he travels both in America and E ...

Fernande Sadler Fernande Sadler (7 July 1869 – 2 December 1949) was a French painter and engraver. She established the art collection at Grez-sur-Loing and became the mayor of that town in 1945. Life Sadler was born in 1869 in Toul. left, Young Girls On The ...

Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle (; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 193021 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monume ...

Nicola Rosini Di Santi Nicola Rosini Di Santi (born in 1959 in Santeramo in Colle, Italy) is a French sculptor and painter. Biography At the age of ten, Di Santi discovered the workshop of the famous sculptor from Argentina Hugo Demarco, in Paris. Currently, he ...

Maurice Savin Maurice Savin (October 17, 1894 – 1973), born Maurice Louis Savin, was a French artist, painter, ceramicist and tapestry-maker his works are included in many private and public collections. Biography Maurice Savin was born in the Drôme in ...

Franz Schrader Jean Daniel François Schrader (January 11, 1844 – October 18, 1924), better known as Franz Schrader, was a French mountaineer, geographer, cartographer and landscape painter, born in Bordeaux. He made an important contribution to the mapping ...

Théophile Schuler Jules Théophile Schuler (18 June 1821 – 26 January 1878) was a French painter and illustrator in the Romantic style. He gave his name to an art award established in 1938. Life The son of a pastor, he studied painting in his hometown, inta ...

René Schützenberger René-Paul Schützenberger (29 July 1860 – 31 December 1916) was a French Post-Impressionist painter. Biography Born in Mulhouse, into an Alsatian family of famous brewers, he was the son of Paul Schützenberger (1829–1897), a Fr ...

Jean Seignemartin Jean Seignemartin (16 April 1848, Lyon - 29 November 1875, Algiers) was a French painter of the Lyon School. Biography His father was a weaver. Having shown artistic talent, in 1860 he was enrolled at the École nationale des beaux-arts de Ly ...

Henri Sert Henri Paul Sert (27 July 1938 La Réunion, Madagascar – 22 March 1964 Stockholm, Sweden) was an artist. When he was 10 years old, Sert's mother brought him to Paris, where he had received his education at a Jesuit monastery.http://www.dn.s ...

Ibrahim Shahda Ibrahim Shahda (, Al-Azizya – , Aix-en-Provence) was a figurative French painter born in Egypt. Biography Born in Al-Azizya, Egypt, Shahda studied at the Cairo Fine Arts Academy in 1947, aged 18. He worked with French professor and painte ...

Sotiris René Sidiropoulos Sotiris René Sidiropoulos (born in 1977 in Paris) is a French people, French Painting, painter and Sculpture, sculptor. Biography His father, iconographe, sculptor, Doctor of Philosophy and former student of Philopoemen Constantinidi or Cara ...

Pierre Soulages Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages (; 24 December 1919 – 26 October 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, President François Hollande of France described him as "the world's greatest living artist." His works are held ...

Jacques Stella Jacques Stella (1596 – 29 April 1657) was a French painter, a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism. Life Stella was born in Lyon. His father was François Stella, a painter and merchant of Flemish origin, but ...

Tancrède Synave Tancrède Julien Synave was a French painter. He was born in 1870 and died in 1936. He is known for his portraits of women in the Parisian high society High society, sometimes simply society, is the behavior and lifestyle of people with the ...

Octave Tassaert Nicolas François Octave Tassaert (Paris, 26 July 1800 – Paris, 24 April 1874)Georges William Thornley Georges William Thornley (2 May 1857 – 31 August 1935) was a French painter and printmaker. Life A student of the French landscape painter Eugène Cicéri and Edmond Yon, Thornley became a successful artist remembered for his seascapes from Nor ...

François Topino-Lebrun François Jean-Baptiste Topino-Lebrun (11 April 1764, in Marseille – 30 January 1801, in Paris) was a French painter and revolutionary. He worked in the Neoclassicism, Neo-Classical style and was said to be the favorite student of Jacques- ...

Édouard Toudouze Édouard Toudouze (1848-1907) was a French painter, illustrator, and decorative artist. Biography Toudouze was born to an artistically accomplished family. His father, , was an architect and engraver. His mother, Adele-Anaïs Colin Toudouze, Ad� ...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the ...

Anthelme Trimolet Anthelme Claude Honoré Trimolet (8 May 1798 - 17 December 1866) was a French painter, notable for portraits and interiors with figures. Biography Trimolet was born in Lyon, the son of a draftsman. While still very young, he was enrolled at ...

Constant Troyon Constant Troyon (August 28, 1810 – February 21, 1865) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. In the early part of his career he painted mostly landscapes. It was only comparatively late in life that Troyon found his ''métier'' as a pa ...

Maurice Utrillo Maurice Utrillo (), born Maurice Valadon; 26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955), was a French painter of the School of Paris who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painte ...

Pierre Adolphe Valette Pierre Adolphe Valette (13 October 1876 – 18 April 1942) was a French Impressionist painter who spent most of his career in England. His most acclaimed paintings are urban landscapes of Manchester, now in the collection of Manchester Art ...

Louis Mathieu Verdilhan Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (24 November 1875 – 15 December 1928) was a French artist known especially for his paintings of the Old Port of Marseille. He was born in Saint-Gilles-du-Gard. His family moved to the Chartreux district in Marseille i ...

Claude Joseph Vernet Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. Life and work Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet ...

Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (sch ...

Jean-Marie Villard Jean-Marie Villard (; 3 January 1828 in Ploaré, Finistère – 16 August 1899 in Ploaré) was a French-Breton people, Breton painter and photographer. Biography His father was a carpenter and contractor,

Marie-Denise Villers Marie-Denise Villers (''née'' Lemoine; 1774 – 19 August 1821) was a French Painting, painter who specialized in portraits. Life Marie-Denise Lemoine was born in Paris to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rouselle. Two of her three sisters, Marie ...

Jacques Villon Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 – June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker. Early life Born Émile Méry Frédéric Gaston Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in Normandy, France, he came ...

Joseph Wamps Bernard-Joseph Wamps (30 November 1689, Lille - 9 August 1744, Lille) was a French painter; mostly of religious subjects. Biography His father was listed in the "Registre aux Bourgeois" and he received his first lessons in his hometown from ...

Félix Ziem Félix Ziem (26 February 1821 – 10 November 1911) was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School, who also produced some Orientalist works. Biography He was born Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem in Beaune in the Côte-d' ...

Corneille de Lyon Corneille de Lyon (early 16th century – 8 November 1575 (buried)) was a Dutch painter of portraits who was active in Lyon, France, from 1533 until his death. In France and the Netherlands he is also still known as ''Corneille de La Haye'' ( n ...

Jean Cousin the Elder Jean Cousin (1500 – before 1593) was a French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician. He is known as "Jean Cousin the Elder" to distinguish him from his son Jean Cousin the Younger, also an artist. Career Cousin was born at ...

Jean Cousin the Younger Jean Cousin the Younger ("le jeune", sometimes given as Jehan in the old style instead of Jean) (ca. 1522–1595) was born in Sens, France around 1522, the son of the famous painter and sculptor Jean Cousin the Elder ca. 1490–ca. 1560) who ...

Louis Le Nain The three Le Nain brothers were painters in 17th-century France: Antoine Le Nain (c.1600–1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1603–1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). They produced genre works, portraits and portrait miniatures. Lives and work The ...

Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a ...

Jacques Stella Jacques Stella (1596 – 29 April 1657) was a French painter, a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism. Life Stella was born in Lyon. His father was François Stella, a painter and merchant of Flemish origin, but ...

Jacques Linard Jacques Linard (1597, Troyes - September 1645, Paris) was a French painter who specialized in still-lifes. Biography Linard was baptised on 6 September 1597. His first records of being of artist was in the 1620s. He was married in 1626 to the ...

Sebastian Stoskopff Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (July 13, 1597 – February 10, 1657) was an Alsatian painter. He is considered one of the most important German still life painters of his time. His works, which were rediscovered after 1930, portray gobl ...

Jean Nicolle Jean Nicolle (19 July 1614 - 12 April 1650) was a French Normans, Norman painter and musician. Jean Nicolle was born in Louviers in 1614, the fourth child of Louis Nicolle and Marguerite Coyplet. Both his father Louis and his uncle, Marin Nicolle ...

Pierre Mignard Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called "Mignard le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits. He was a ...

Daniel Hallé Daniel Hallé (27 September 1614, in Rouen – 14 July 1675, in Paris) was a French painter. He studied painting in his birthplace and was apprenticed there on 4 November 1631. He produced a ''Multiplication of the Loaves'' (1665) and ''Martyrdo ...

Pierre Le Tellier Pierre Le Tellier (1614, Vernon, Eure, Vernon – c. 1702, Rouen) was a French painter. Nephew and student of Nicolas Poussin, Poussin, Pierre Le Tellier spent 14 years at his side in Rome. He painted many paintings distinguished for their simpl ...

Eustache Lesueur Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur (19 November 161730 April 1655) was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. He is known primarily for his paintings of religious subjects. He was a leading exponent of the neoclas ...

Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne Jean Baptiste de Champaigne (10 December 1631, in Brussels – 27 October 1681, in Paris), was a Flemish Baroque painter and teacher. Biography According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), he was the nephew of Philippe de ...

Jean Chardin Jean Chardin (16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book ''The Travels of Sir John Chardin'' is regarded as one of the finest ...

Jean Jouvenet Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet (1 May 1644 – 5 April 1717) was a French painter, especially of religious subjects. Biography He was born into an artistic family in Rouen. His first training in art was from his father, Laurent Jouvenet; a generation ea ...

Nicolas Colombel Nicolas Colombel (c. 1644 – 1717) was a French painter, much influenced by Poussin. Life Colombel was born at Sotteville, near Rouen, in about 1644. He went to Rome when quite young, and remained there until 1692, forming his style by a st ...

Claude Guy Hallé Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ...

Eustache Restout Eustache Restout (12 November 1655, in Caen – 1 November 1743, in Mondaye) was a French architect, engraver, painter and Premonstratensian canon regular, belonging to the artistic Restout dynasty. At his death he was sub-prior of abbaye Sai ...

Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Ch ...

Jean Siméon Chardin Jean Siméon Chardin (; November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic act ...

Étienne Jeaurat Étienne Jeaurat (9 February 1699, Vermenton – 14 December 1789, Versailles (city), Versailles) was a French painter, above all remembered for his lively street scenes. Early life Born in Vermenton near Auxerre, Jeaurat became an orphan at an ...

Joseph Aved Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (12 January 1702 – 4 March 1766), also called le Camelot (''The Hawker'') and Avet le Batave (''The Dutch Avet''), was a French painter of the 18th century and one of the main French Rococo portraitists. He pain ...

François Boucher François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...

Joseph Siffred Duplessis Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (22 September 1725 – 1 April 1802) was a French painter known for the clarity and immediacy of his portraits. Early life He was born in Carpentras, near Avignon, into a family with an artistic bent and received his ...

Michel-Bruno Bellengé Michel-Bruno Bellengé (1726 – 13 December 1793) was a French painter. Bellengé was one of the first students of the Rouen School founded by Jean-Baptiste Descamps. He won three awards there between 1748 and 1751. He specialized in painting f ...