The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century,
performance art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...
). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of French artists. See other articles for information on
French literature
French literature () generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than Fr ...
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French music
''French music'' may refer to:
* Music of France, music of the French people in France
''French music'' may also refer to the music of French-speaking countries:
*Music of Quebec, music of the French-Canadians in Canada, most often Québécois or ...
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French cinema
French cinema consists of the film industry and its film productions, whether made within the nation of France or by French film production companies abroad. It is the oldest and largest precursor of national cinemas in Europe; with primary influ ...
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French culture
The culture of France has been shaped by geography, by historical events, and by foreign and internal forces and groups. France, and in particular Paris, has played an important role as a center of high culture since the 17th century and from t ...
.
Middle Ages
See also
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture (or pointed architecture) is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It e ...
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Illuminated manuscript
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, the ...
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Gislebertus 300px, ''Last Judgment'' by Gislebertus in the west tympanum at the Autun Cathedral
Gislebertus, Giselbertus or Ghiselbertus, sometimes "of Autun" (flourished in the 12th century), was a French Romanesque sculptor, whose decoration (about 1120 ...
(12th century), sculptor
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Pierre de Montreuil
Pierre de Montreuil (died 17 March 1267) was a French architect. The name formerly given to him by architectural historians, Peter of Montereau (in French, Pierre de Montereau), is a misnomer. It was based on his tombstone inscription ''Musterolo ...
(c.1200–1266), architect
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Villard de Honnecourt
Villard de Honnecourt (''Wilars dehonecort'', ''Vilars de Honecourt'') was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. He is known to history only through a surviving portfolio or "sketchbook" containing about 250 drawings and designs ...
(13th century), other media
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Jean Pucelle
Jean Pucelle (c. 1300 – 1355; active c. 1320–1350) was a Parisian Gothic-era manuscript illuminator who excelled in the invention of drolleries as well as traditional iconography. He is considered one of the best miniaturists of ...
(active 1325–28), other media
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Jean Malouel
Jean Malouel, or Jan Maelwael in his native Dutch, ( 1365 – 1415) was a Dutch artist who was the court painter of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and his successor John the Fearless, working in the International Gothic style.
Documented li ...
(Dutch, worked in Burgundy) (1365-1416), painter
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Anastasia
Anastasia (from el, Ἀναστασία, translit=Anastasía) is a feminine given name of Greek origin, derived from the Greek word (), meaning "resurrection". It is a popular name in Eastern Europe, particularly in Russia, where it was the most ...
(fl. c.1400), manuscript illuminator
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Claus Sluter
Claus Sluter (1340s in Haarlem – 1405 or 1406 in Dijon) was a Dutch sculptor, living in the Duchy of Burgundy from about 1380. He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the "northern reali ...
(Dutch, worked in Burgundy from 1395–1406), sculptor
* the Limbourg brothers (Pol and Hermann) (Dutch artists working in Burgundy around 1403–1416), other media
Renaissance
See also
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...
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Francis I of France
Francis I (french: François Ier; frm, Francoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once ...
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Henry II of France
Henry II (french: Henri II; 31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559) was King of France from 31 March 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I and Duchess Claude of Brittany, he became Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder bro ...
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Catherine de' Medici
Catherine de' Medici ( it, Caterina de' Medici, ; french: Catherine de Médicis, ; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Florentine noblewoman born into the Medici family. She was Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King ...
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Henry III of France
Henry III (french: Henri III, né Alexandre Édouard; pl, Henryk Walezy; lt, Henrikas Valua; 19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589) was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589, as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of ...
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Henry IV of France
Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarc ...
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Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...
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Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau (; ) is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southeast of the centre of Paris. Fontainebleau is a sub-prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne department, and it is the seat of the ''arrondissement ...
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Châteaux of the Loire Valley
The châteaux of the Loire Valley (french: châteaux de la Loire) are part of the architectural heritage of the historic towns of Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Montsoreau, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours along the river Loire in France. They illustr ...
Enguerrand Quarton
Enguerrand Quarton (or Charonton) ( 1410 – 1466) was a French painter and manuscript illuminator whose few surviving works are among the first masterpieces of a distinctively French style, very different from either Italian or Early Netherland ...
(c.1410–c.1466), painter, miniatures
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Henri Bellechose
Henri Bellechose ('' fl.'' 1415; died before 28 January 1445) was a painter from the South Netherlands. He was one of the most significant artists at the beginning of panel painting in Northern Europe, and among the earliest artists of Early Nethe ...
(Flemish born) (active 1415-1440), painter
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Simon Marmion
Simon Marmion (c. 1425 – 24 or 25 December 1489) was a French and Burgundian Early Netherlandish painter of panels and illuminated manuscripts. Marmion lived and worked in what is now France but for most of his lifetime was part of the Duchy ...
(c.1420–1489), illuminations
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Jean Fouquet
Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (ca.1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from ...
(1420–1481), painter, illuminations
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Jean Colombe
Jean Colombe ( la, Ioannes Colombus; b. Bourges ca. 1430; d. ca. 1493) was a French miniature painter and illuminator of manuscripts. He is best known for his work in ''Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry''. He was a son of Philippe Colombe and hi ...
(1430–1493), illuminations
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Michel Colombe
Michel Colombe (c. 1430 – c. 1513) was a French sculptor whose work bridged the late Gothic and Renaissance styles.
Born in Bourges into a family of artisans, he was active in Tours. Colombe's surviving works all date from his old age. He crea ...
(c.1430–1515), sculptor
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Nicolas Froment
Nicolas Froment (c. 1435, Uzès, Gard – c. 1486 in Avignon) was a French painter of the Early Renaissance.
Nicolas Froment is one of the most notable representatives of the Second School of Avignon, (''École d'Avignon''), a group of arti ...
(c.1450–c.1490), painter
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Jean Perréal
Jean Perréal (-) -- sometimes called Peréal, Johannes Parisienus or Jean De Paris -- was a successful portraitist for French Royalty in the first half of the 16th century, as well as an architect, sculptor and limner of illuminated manuscripts ...
(c.1455–1528), painter, illuminations
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Antoine Le Moiturier
Antoine Le Moiturier (1425–1495) was a French sculptor. He was born in Avignon into a family of sculptors. His uncle was the itinerant French master Jacques Morel.
Following from the work of Jean de la Huerta beginning in 1443, Le Moituri ...
(active in the 1460s), sculptor
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Jean Clouet
Jean (or Janet) Clouet (1480–1541) was a miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the High Renaissance. He was the father of François Clouet.
Biography
The authentic presence of this artist at the French court is first mentione ...
Nicolas Dipre
Nicolas Dipre (sometimes also Nicolas d'Amiens, Nicolas d'Ypres, ''fl.'' -1532) was a French early Renaissance painter. Among the Avignon artists of the late 15th and early 16th century, the name Nicola Dipre is among the most famous.
Life and ...
(fl. 1495–1532), painter
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Jehan 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 ...
(1500–1593), painter, engraver, sculptor
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Ligier Richier
Ligier Richier (c. 1500–1567) was a French sculptor active in Saint-Mihiel in north-eastern France.
Richier primarily worked in the churches of his native Saint-Mihiel and from 1530 he enjoyed the protection of Duke Antoine of Lorraine, for w ...
(1500–1567), sculptor
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Pierre Quesnel
Pierre Quesnel () was a 16th-century French artist who worked in Scotland.
Pierre worked in Scotland for Mary of Guise and James V. He is listed as an Usher in Guise's household and is identified as the "queen's painter" in the Scottish ''Treas ...
(c.1502–1580), painter
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Philibert Delorme
Philibert de l'Orme () (3-9 June 1514 – 8 January 1570) was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of French Renaissance architecture. His surname is also written De l'Orme, de L'Orme, or Delorme.
Biography
Early care ...
(or de L'Orme) (1505/1510–1570), sculptor, architectural plans
* Pierre Bontemps (1505/1510–after 1562), sculptor
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Jean Goujon
Jean Goujon (c. 1510 – c. 1565)Thirion, Jacques (1996). "Goujon, Jean" in ''The Dictionary of Art'', edited by Jane Turner; vol. 13, pp. 225–227. London: Macmillan. Reprinted 1998 with minor corrections: . was a French Renaissance sculpt ...
(c.1510–1565?), sculptor
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Bernard Palissy
Bernard Palissy (c. 1510c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rusticware", typically highly decora ...
(1510–1590), master potter
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Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, also given as Du Cerceau, DuCerceau, or Ducerceau (1510–1584) was a well-known French designer of architecture, ornament, furniture, metalwork and other decorative designs during the 16th century, and the founder ...
(c.1510–1585), architectural plans
* Jean Juste (active 1515–1530), sculptor
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François Clouet
François Clouet (c. 1510 – 22 December 1572), son of Jean Clouet, was a French Renaissance miniaturist and painter, particularly known for his detailed portraits of the French ruling family.
Historical references
François Clouet was born in ...
(c.1515–1572) (son of Jean Clouet), painter
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Pierre Lescot
Pierre Lescot (c. 1515 – 10 September 1578) was a French architect active during the French Renaissance. His most notable works include the Fontaine des Innocents and the Lescot wing of the Louvre in Paris. He played an important role in th ...
(c.1515–1578), sculptor, architect
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Antoine Caron
Antoine Caron (1521–1599) was a French master glassmaker, illustrator, Northern Mannerist painter and a product of the School of Fontainebleau.
He is one of the few French painters of his time who had a pronounced artistic personality. His wo ...
(c.1521–1599), painter
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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 ...
Étienne Dumonstier
Étienne Dumonstier, also Nicholas Denizot, (1540–1603) was a French Renaissance portrait painter.
Not much is known about Dumonstier's life except through his works. He primarily painted portraits for the French Royal family. His style indic ...
(1540–1603), painter
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Ambroise Dubois
Ambroise Dubois (1542/43–1614/15) was a Flemish-born French painter.
Dubois was born in Antwerp and became a painter of the second School of Fontainebleau. His influences were Niccolò dell'Abbate and Francesco Primaticcio. Dubois painte ...
(c.1542–1614) (Flemish born), painter
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Pierre Dumonstier I
Pierre Dumonstier I (c. 1545 – c. 1610) was a French artist, notable as one of the masters of drawn portraiture of his period.Mikhaïl Piotrovski, Ermitage, P-2 ART PUBLISHERS, v.2001, p. 274
Life
Pierre was the son of Geoffroy Dumonstier (di ...
(c.1545–c.1610), painter
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Thomas de Leu
Thomas de Leu or Leeuw or Le Leup or Deleu (1560–1612) was a French engraver, publisher, and print dealer of Flemish origin.Grivel 1996b.Préaud 1987, pp. 220–222.
Life
He was the son of a print dealer in Oudenaarde and began his career in ...
Léonard Gaultier
Léonard Gaultier, or, as he sometimes signs himself, Galter, a French engraver, was born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641. Franz Brulliot, ''Dictionnaire des monogrammes, marques figurées, lettres initiales, noms abrégés etc: a ...
(c.1561-1641), engraver
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Martin Fréminet
Martin Fréminet (24 September 1567 – 18 June 1619) was a French painter.
Biography
Fréminet was born and died in Paris. According to the RKD he was a painter and engraver who is considered a member of the Second "School of Fontainebleau".< ...
(1567–1619), painter
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Frans Pourbus the younger
Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569–1622) was a Flemish painter, son of Frans Pourbus the Elder and grandson of Pieter Pourbus. He was born in Antwerp and died in Paris. He is also referred to as "Frans II".
Pourbus worked for many of the highly ...
(1569–1622) (Flemish born), painter
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Jacques Bellange
Jacques Bellange (c. 1575–1616) was an artist and printmaker from the Duchy of Lorraine (then independent but now part of France) whose etchings and some drawings are his only securely identified works today. They are among the most striking No ...
(1575–1616) (in Lorraine), engraver
* Jean Decourt (active 1570s), painter
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François Quesnel
François Quesnel (c. 1543–1619) was a French painter of Scottish extraction.
Biography
The son of the French painter Pierre Quesnel and his Scottish wife Madeleine Digby, born in Edinburgh while his father worked for Mary of Guise, Quesnel f ...
(active 1580s), painter
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Jacques Patin
Jacques Patin (died 28 May 1587) was a French painter, decorator, illustrator and engraver.Benezit 2006, vol. 10, p. 992.
Although the date and place of Patin's birth are unknown, he was part of a family of artists that included his father and br ...
(active 1580s), engraver
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Jean de Beaugrand
Jean de Beaugrand (1584 – 22 December 1640) was the foremost French lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse (then part of the Old Swiss Confederacy), de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathem ...
(1584–1640),
lineographer
Lineography is the art of drawing without lifting the pen, pencil, or paintbrush that is being used.
The practice originated in France in the seventeenth century. It fell into disuse by the early nineteenth century. Lineography experienced a res ...
Seventeenth century
See also
French Baroque and Classicism
17th-century French art is generally referred to as Baroque, but from the mid- to late 17th century, the style of French art shows a classical adherence to certain rules of proportion and sobriety uncharacteristic of the Baroque as it was prac ...
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Louis XIII of France
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
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Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman and statesman. He was also known as ''l'Éminence rouge'', or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the ...
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Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
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Louis XIV of France
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Versa ...
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Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 19 ...
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Classicism
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aestheti ...
Pierre Dumonstier II
Pierre Dumonstier II (1585–1656) was a French artist.
Life
His family produced several artists. The son of Étienne Dumonstier, Pierre was sometimes known as 'le neveu' (the nephew). He was one of at least five family members who specialised i ...
(1585–1656), draftsman
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Claude Deruet
Claude Deruet (1588–1660) was a famous French Baroque painter of the 17th century, from the city of Nancy.
Biography
Deruet was an apprentice to Jacques Bellange, the official court painter to Charles III, Duke of Lorraine. He was in Rome b ...
(1588–1660) (in Lorraine), painter
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Simon Vouet
Simon Vouet (; 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and m ...
(1590–1649), painter
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Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot (; – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an impo ...
(1592–1635) (in Lorraine), engraver
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Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour (13 March 1593 – 30 January 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chia ...
(1593–1652), painter
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Claude Vignon
Claude Vignon (19 May 1593 – 10 May 1670) was a French painter, printmaker and illustrator who worked in a wide range of genres.Paola Pacht Bassani. "Vignon, Claude." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 2 November ...
(1593-1670), painter, printmaker, illustrator
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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 ...
Nicolas Lagneau
Nicolas Lagneau (fl c. 1600–50)Klingsöhr-Leroy was a French draftsman noted for his portrait drawings. He was especially interested in grotesque physiognomies, which he drew in meticulous detail either from models or from his imagination. His d ...
Philippe de Champaigne
Philippe de Champaigne (; 26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Brabançon-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school. He was a founding member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, the premier art ...
(1602–1674)
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Pierre-Antoine Lemoine
Pierre-Antoine Lemoine (1605–19 August 1665) was a French painter known for still lifes. He died in Paris. His ''Still Life with Bunches of Grapes, Figs, and Pomegranates'' shows Italian influence, and may have been exhibited for the Academy in ...
(1605–1665), still-life painter
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Laurent de La Hyre
Laurent de La Hyre (; 27 February 1606 – 28 December 1656) was a French Baroque painter, born in Paris. He was a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism.
Life
La Hyre was greatly influenced by the work of Italian ...
(1606–1565), painter
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Mathieu Le Nain
The three Le Nain brothers were Painting, 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, Portrait painting, portraits and portrait min ...
(1607–c.1677), painter
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Louise Moillon
Louise Moillon (1610–1696) was a French people, French still life Painting, painter in the Baroque era. It is recorded that she became known as one of the best still life painters of her time, as her work was purchased by King Charles I of Engla ...
(1610–1696), painter
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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 ...
(1612–1695), painter
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Gaspard Dughet
Gaspard Dughet (15 June 1615 – 25 May 1675), also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome.
Life
Dughet was born in Rome, the son of a French pastry-cook
and his Italian wife. He has always generally been considered as a Fr ...
(1613–1675), painter
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André Le Nôtre
André Le Nôtre (; 12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He was the landscape architect who designed the gar ...
(1613–1700), landscape architect
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Eustache Le Sueur
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 ...
(1616–1655), painter
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Sébastien Bourdon
Sébastien Bourdon (2 February 1616 – 8 May 1671) was a French painter and engraver. His ''chef d'œuvre'' is ''The Crucifixion of St. Peter'' made for the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, Notre Dame.
Biography
Bourdon was born i ...
(1616–1671), painter
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Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun (baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of ...
(1619–1690), painter, other media
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Pierre Paul Puget
Pierre Paul Puget (16 October 1620 – 2 December 1694) was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. His sculpture expressed emotion, pathos and drama, setting it apart from the more classical and academic sculpture of the ...
(1620–1694), sculptor
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Guillaume Courtois
Guillaume Courtois or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon ('the Burgundian'), (1628 – 14 or 15 June 1679François Girardon
François Girardon (10 March 1628 – 1 September 1715) was a French sculptor of the Louis XIV style or French Baroque, best known for his statues and busts of Louis XIV and for his statuary in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
Biography ...
(1628–1715), sculptor
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Catherine Duchemin
Catherine Duchemin (12 November 1630 – 21 September 1698) was a French flower and fruit painter.
She was born in Paris as the daughter of the sculptor Jaques Duchemin and Elizabeth Hubault. She married the sculptor Girardon in 1657, and 14 ...
(1630–1698), painter
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Claude Lefèbvre
Claude Lefèbvre (12 September 1632 (baptised) - 25 April 1675) was a French painter and engraver.Brême 1996, p. 65.
Early life and training
Lefèbvre was born at Fontainebleau, the son of the painter Jean Lefèbvre (1600–1675), and became ...
(1633–1675), painter and engraver
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Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella
Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (7 July 1636 – 1 October 1697) was a French engraver, most of whose prints were after works by Nicolas Poussin, or by her uncle Jacques Stella, from whom she received her artistic education.
Life
She was born at Lyon ...
(1636–1697), engraver
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Charles de la Fosse
Charles de La Fosse (or Lafosse; 15 June 1636 – 13 December 1716) was a French painter born in Paris.
Life
He was one of the most noted and least servile pupils of Le Brun, under whose direction he shared in the chief of the great decorativ ...
(1636–1716), painter
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Antoine Coysevox
Charles Antoine Coysevox ( or ; 29 September 164010 October 1720), was a French sculptor in the Baroque and Louis XIV style, best known for his sculpture decorating the gardens and Palace of Versailles and his portrait busts.
Biography
Coysevo ...
(1640–1720), sculptor
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Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella
Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella was a French engraver.
Life
She was born at Lyons in about 1641, the daughter of Étienne Bouzonnet, a goldsmith, and his wife, Madeleine Stella (sister of the artist Jacques Stella). Her siblings included Antoine and C ...
(1641–1676), engraver
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Étienne Allegrain
Étienne Allegrain (1644 – 2 April 1736) was a French topographical painter. Inspired by Nicolas Poussin, he evoked still ambiences and atmospherics bathed in a deep play of light and shade.
His grand-son Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain be ...
(1644–1736), topographical painter
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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 ...
(1644–1717), painter
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François de Troy
François de Troy ( 28 February 1645 – 1 May 1730) was a French painter and engraver who became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Director of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture.
Early li ...
(1645–1730), painter
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Madeleine Boullogne
Madeleine BoullogneThe old spelling is Boullongne, sometimes also written Boulogne. (baptised 24 July 1646, Paris - 30 January 1710, Paris) was a French Baroque still life painter.
Biography
Boullogne was the daughter of Louis Boullogne, a painte ...
(1646–1710), still life painter
* Marie Blancour (fl. 1650–1699), painter
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Marie Courtois
Marie Courtois (c. 1655 – 13 October 1703) was a French miniature painter. She was a pupil of Le Brun. In 1675 she married Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter. They were the parents of the more famous portrait painter Jean-Marc Natti ...
(c.1655–1703), miniature painter
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Nicolas de Largillière
Nicolas de Largillière (; 10 October 1656 – 20 March 1746) was a French portrait painter, born in Paris.
Biography
Early life
Largillière's father, a merchant, took him to Antwerp at the age of three. As a boy, he spent nearly two years in ...
(1656–1746), painter
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Nicolas Coustou
Nicolas Coustou (9 January 1658 – 1 May 1733) was a French sculptor and academic.
Biography
Born in Lyon, Coustou was the son of a woodcarver, François Coustou, who gave him his first instruction in art, and Claudine Coysevox. When he w ...
(1658–1733), sculptor
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Hyacinthe Rigaud
Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (; 18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud (), was a Catalan-French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility.
Biography
Rigaud ...
(1659–1743), painter
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Antoine Coypel
Antoine Coypel (11 April 16617 January 1722) was a French painter, pastellist, engraver, decorative designer and draughtsman.François Desportes
François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis.
People with the given name
* Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters"
* Francis II of France, Kin ...
(1661–1743), painter
Eighteenth century
See also
Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 19 ...
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Louis XV of France
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached ...
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Madame de Pompadour
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (, ; 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court. She was the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751, and rema ...
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Rococo
Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...
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Louis XVI of France
Louis XVI (''Louis-Auguste''; ; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as ''Citizen Louis Capet'' during the four months just before he was e ...
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Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was ...
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a promine ...
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Alexis Simon Belle
Alexis Simon Belle (12 January 1674 – 21 November 1734) was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility.
As a portrait artist, Belle's style followed that of his master François de Troy, Hyacinthe R ...
(1674–1734)
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Jean-François de Troy
Jean-François de Troy (27 January 1679, Paris – 26 January 1752, Rome) was a French Rococo easel and fresco painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer. One of France's leading history painters in his time, he was equally successful with his de ...
Antoine Watteau
Jean-Antoine Watteau (, , ; baptised October 10, 1684died July 18, 1721) Alsavailablevia Oxford Art Online (subscription needed). was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, a ...
(1684–1721), painter
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Jean-Baptiste van Loo
Jean-Baptiste van Loo (14 January 1684 – 19 December 1745) was a French subject and portrait painter.
Life and career
He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and was instructed in art by his father Louis-Abraham van Loo, son of Jacob van Loo. Hav ...
(1684–1745), painter
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Jean-Marc Nattier
Jean-Marc Nattier (17 March 1685 – 7 November 1766) was a French painter. He was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655–1703), a miniaturist. He is noted for h ...
(1685–1766), painter
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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 ...
François Lemoyne
François Lemoyne or François Le Moine (; 1688 – 4 June 1737) was a French rococo
Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which co ...
(1688–1737), painter
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Nicolas Lancret
Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 – 14 September 1743) was a French painter. Born in Paris, he was a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society during the regency of the Duke of Orleans and, late ...
(1690–1743), painter
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Charles-Antoine Coypel
Charles-Antoine Coypel (11 July 1694 – 14 June 1752) was a French painter, art commentator, and playwright. He became court painter to the French king and director of the Académie Royale. He inherited the title of ''Garde des tableaux et de ...
(1694–1752), painter, art commentator, and
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
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Jean-Baptiste Pater
Jean-Baptiste Pater (December 29, 1695 – July 25, 1736) was a French rococo painter.
Born in Valenciennes, Pater was the son of sculptor Antoine Pater and studied under him before becoming a student of painter Jean-Baptiste Guide. Pater then m ...
Charles Joseph Natoire
Charles-Joseph Natoire (3 March 1700 – 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751–1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Bou ...
(1700–1777), painter
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Louis-François Roubiliac
Louis-François Roubiliac (or Roubilliac, or Roubillac) (31 August 1702 – 11 January 1762) was a French sculptor who worked in England. One of the four most prominent sculptors in London working in the rococo style, he was described by Margare ...
(1702–1762), sculptor
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Jean-Étienne Liotard
Jean-Étienne Liotard (; 22 December 1702 – 12 June 1789) was a Swiss painter, art connoisseur and dealer. He is best known for his portraits in pastel, and for the works from his stay in Turkey. A Huguenot of French origin and citizen of the R ...
(1702–1789), painter
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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 ...
(1703–1770), painter, engraver
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Maurice 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.
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(1704–1788), painter
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Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (15 February 1704 – 1778) was a French sculptor of the 18th century who worked in both the rococo and neoclassical style. He made monumental statuary for the Gardens of Versailles but was best known for his expressive p ...
(1704–1778), painter, sculptor
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Charles-André van Loo
Carle or Charles-André van Loo (; 15 February 1705 – 15 July 1765) was a French painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a su ...
(Carle Van Loo) (1705–1765) (brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo), painter
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Louis-Michel van Loo
Louis-Michel van Loo (2 March 1707, Toulon – 20 March 1771, Paris) was a French Painting, painter.
Biography
He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, and he won a prize at the ''Académie Royale de ...
(1707–1771) (son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo), painter
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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (26 January 1714 – 20 August 1785) was a French sculptor.
Life
Pigalle was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the ''Prix de Rome'', after a severe struggle he entered the ''Ac ...
(1714–1785), sculptor
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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 ...
(1714–1789), painter
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Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (c. 1716 – 19 November 1783) was a French painter who specialized in portraits executed in pastels.
Biography
Perronneau was born in Paris. His exact date of birth is unknown, but posthumous accounts suggest tha ...
Joseph-Marie Vien
Joseph-Marie Vien (sometimes anglicised as Joseph-Mary Wien; 18 June 1716 – 27 March 1809) was a French painter. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791.
Biography
He was born in Montpellier ...
(1716–1809), painter
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Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (25 August 1719 – 15 November 1795) was a French painter of allegorical scenes and portraits.
He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, where in 1738 he won the Pr ...
(1719–1795) (son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo), painter
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Charles Germain de Saint Aubin
Charles Germain de Saint Aubin (17 January 1721 – 6 March 1786) was a French drawing, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV. Published a classic reference on embroidery, ''L'Art du Brodeur'' ("Art of the Embroiderer") in 1770. ...
(1721–1786), engraver, embroidery designer
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (, 21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting.
Biography Early life
Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy. He is generally said to have formed h ...
(1725–1805), painter
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François-Hubert Drouais
François-Hubert Drouais (Paris, 14 December 1727 – Paris, 21 October 1775) was a leading French portrait painter during the latter years of Louis XV's reign.For a history of the Drouais family, see Prosper Dorbec (1904, 1905) and Camille Gabill ...
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 ...
Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert (22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.Jean de Cayeux. ...
(1733–1808), painter, engraver
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Marie-Suzanne Giroust
Marie-Suzanne Giroust (9 March 1734 — 31 August 1772), known as Madame Roslin, was a French painter, miniaturist, and pastellist, known for her portraits. She was a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Only a small numb ...
(1734–1772), painter
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Joseph Ducreux
Joseph, Baron Ducreux (26 June 1735 – 24 July 1802) was a French noble, portrait painter, pastelist, portrait miniature, miniaturist, and engraving, engraver, who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France, and resumed his ...
(1735–1802), painter
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Étienne de La Vallée Poussin
Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735–1802), also called Delavallée-Poussin in certain biographies, was a French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes.
Life
Related on his mother's side to the family of the great pai ...
(1735–1802), French
history
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...
painter and creator of interior decorative schemes
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Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe
Bacler d'Albe (October 21, 1761 – September 12, 1824) was a French artist, as well as the map-maker and closest strategic advisor of Napoleon from 1796 until 1814.
Bacler d'Albe was one of Napoleon's longest-lasting companions: a fellow arti ...
(1761–1824), painter
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Nicolas Bernard Lépicié
Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (16 June 1735 – 15 September 1784) was an 18th-century French painter and teacher of painting, the son of two well-known engravers at the time, François-Bernard Lépicié and Renée-Élisabeth Marlié. Lépicié was ...
(1735–1784), painter
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Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre
Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre (c. 1739 – 24 January 1802) was a well-known and highly regarded France, French artist during the second half of the 18th century.
Career
Although he began and ended his painting career in France—he was a stud ...
(1739–c.1800), painter
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Jean Antoine Houdon
Jean-Antoine Houdon (; 20 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor.
Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment. Houdon's subjects included De ...
(1741–1828), sculptor
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Jean-Michel Moreau
Jean-Michel Moreau (26 March 1741 – 30 November 1814), also called Moreau le Jeune ("the younger"), was a French draughtsman, illustrator and engraver.
Biography
Moreau le Jeune, as he is usually called, was born in Paris. He was the pupil of t ...
(Moreau the younger) (1741–1814), engraver
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Anne Vallayer-Coster
Anne Vallayer-Coster (21 December 1744 – 28 February 1818) was a major 18th-century French painter best known for still lifes. She achieved fame and recognition very early in her career, being admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture e ...
(1744–1818), painter
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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 ...
(1748–1825), painter
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Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin
Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin (5 June 1750 – 16 July 1817) was a French artist known primarily for his portraits and landscapes.
He worked in pastels for his portrait miniatures, and in gouache and engraving for his landscapes. He studied with ...
(1750–1817), portrait artist
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Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine
Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine, also Lemoyne (17 July 1751 – 7 February 1824), was a French artist, known primarily for portrait painting, portraiture.
Lemoine was born in Rouen. He declined to follow his father's precedent in becoming a Civil ...
(1751–1824), portrait and landscape artist
* Michel Garnier (1753–1819), painter
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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 ...
(1752–1794), painter
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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 ...
(1754–1843), painter and designer
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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 ...
(1754–1829)
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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Le Brun, was a French portrait painter, especially of women, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Her artistic style is generally considered part o ...
(1755–1842), painter
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Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy
Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757 – 11 November 1841) was a French painter known for his landscapes.
A native of Paris, Dunouy began his career depicting views of the city and the surrounding region, exhibiting at the Paris Salon for the ...
(1757–1841), painter known for his
landscapes
A landscape is the visible features of an area of Terrestrial ecoregion, land, its landforms, and how they integrate with Nature, natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionar ...
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...
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Napoleon I
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...
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Barbizon school
The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its name f ...
Symbolism
Symbolism or symbolist may refer to:
Arts
* Symbolism (arts), a 19th-century movement rejecting Realism
** Symbolist movement in Romania, symbolist literature and visual arts in Romania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
** Russian sy ...
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Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...
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Academic art
Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie d ...
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Napoleon III of France
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...
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Photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...
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Modernism
Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...
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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 ...
(1761–1845), painter
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
(1765–1833), photographer
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Adélaïde Dufrénoy
Adélaïde-Gillette Dufrénoy (née Billet) (1765–1825) was a French poet and painter from Brittany.
Biography
The daughter of Jacques Billet, a jeweller for the Crown of Poland, she had a lavish education and learnt Latin to a proficient eno ...
(1765–1825), poet and painter from
Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ...
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (or ''de Roucy''), also known as Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson or simply Girodet (29 January 17679 December 1824),Long, George. (1851) ''The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
(1767–1824), painter
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Jean-Baptiste Isabey
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (11 April 1767 – 18 April 1855) was a French Painting, painter born at Nancy, France, Nancy.
He was a successful artist, both under the First French Empire, First Empire and to the diplomats of the Congress of Vienna.
L ...
(1767–1855), painter
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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 ...
Adélaïde Victoire Hall
Adélaïde Victoire Hall, called ''Adèle'' (11 May 1772 – 14 October 1844), was a Swedish-French artist and noble ( marquise). She was given the honorary title of ''agré'' of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (1793).
Hall was born in Pari ...
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 ...
(1777–1837), painter, draftsman
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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 ...
(1780–1867), painter
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Étienne Bouhot
Étienne Bouhot (8 August 1780 – 17 July 1862) was a French painter and art teacher.
Bouhot was born in Bard-lès-Époisses. He was the director of the ''École de Dessin'' (''School of Drawing'') in Semur-en-Auxois. He died in Semur-en ...
(1780–1862), painter and art teacher
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Alexandre-François Caminade
Alexandre-François Caminade (14 December 1783 – May 1862) was a French painter. Caminade was born and died in Paris. He was a portraitist and a religious painter. He was Jacques-Louis David's pupil.
Main works
*''Flight into Egypt'', St. Etie ...
(1783–1862),
portrait
A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...
ist and religious painter
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François Rude
François Rude (4 January 1784 – 3 November 1855) was a French sculptor, best known for the ''Departure of the Volunteers'', also known as ''La Marseillaise'' on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (1835–36). His work often expressed patriotic the ...
(1784–1855), sculptor
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Eugénie Charen
Eugénie is the French version of the female given name Eugenia.
Eugénie or Eugenie may refer to:
People
* Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920), 9th Countess de Teba; later Empress Eugénie, Empress Consort to Napoléon III
*
* Princess Eugenie ...
Charles de Steuben
Charles Auguste Guillaume Steuben (April 18, 1788 – November 21, 1856), also Charles de Steuben, was a German-born French Romantic painter and lithographer active during the Napoleonic Era.
Early life
De Steuben was born the son of t ...
(1788–1856), painter active during the
Napoleonic Era
The Napoleonic era is a period in the history of France and Europe. It is generally classified as including the fourth and final stage of the French Revolution, the first being the National Assembly, the second being the Legislative ...
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Horace Vernet
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 178917 January 1863), more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was a French Painting, painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalism, Orientalist subjects.
Biography
Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another ...
(1789–1863), painter
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Jules Robert Auguste
Jules Robert Auguste (1789 – 15 April 1850) was a French painter associated with Romanticism and classicism
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, ...
(c.1789–1850), painter
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Elisa de Lamartine
Elisa de Lamartine, (Born: Mary Ann Elisa Birch; 1790–1863), also known as Marianne de Lamartine, was a French painter and sculptor believed to be of English ancestry.
Biography
The artist was born 13 March 1790, in Languedoc, Languedoc, Fr ...
(1790–1863), painter and sculptor
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Théodore Géricault
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is ''The Raft of the Medusa''. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic ...
(1791–1824), painter
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Nicolas Toussaint Charlet
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Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (20 December 1792 – 30 October 1845) was a French painter and printmaker, more especially of military subjects.
Life
Charlet was born in Paris. He was the son o ...
(1792–1845), painter
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Antoine-Louis Barye
Antoine-Louis Barye (24 September 179525 June 1875) was a Romantic French sculptor most famous for his work as an ''animalier'', a sculptor of animals. His son and student was the known sculptor Alfred Barye.
Biography
Born in Paris, France, Ba ...
(1795–1875), sculptor
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Ary Scheffer
Ary Scheffer (10 February 179515 June 1858) was a Dutch-French Romantic painter. He was known mostly for his works based on literature, with paintings based on the works of Dante, Goethe, and Lord Byron, as well as religious subjects. He was als ...
(1795–1858), painter
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Raymond Bonheur
Oscar-Raymond Bonheur (1796–1849) was a French painter. He is best known as the father of Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), Auguste Bonheur (1824–1884), Isidore Bonheur (1827–1901), and Juliette Bonheur (1830–1891).
Biography
Bonheur was ...
(1796–1849), painter
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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 ...
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 ...
(1797–1856), painter
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Julie Hugo
Julie Hugo (1797–1865; born Louise Rose Julie Duvidal de Montferrier) was a 19th-century French painter.
Career
Hugo was born in Paris in 1797, daughter of Jean Jacques Duvidal de Montferrier (1752-1829) and Jeanne Delon (ca 1770-1831). As a y ...
(1797–1865), painter
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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 ...
(1798–1863), painter
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Alfred Johannot
Alfred Johannot (March 21, 1800 – 1837) was a French painter and engraving, engraver born in Offenbach (district), Offenbach, Germany. His family were French refugees who went to Germany after the Edict of Nantes was Edict of Fontainebleau, revo ...
(1800–1837), painter and engraver
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Hippolyte Bellangé
Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé (17 January 1800 – 10 April 1866) was a French battle painter and printmaker. His art was influenced by the wars of the first Napoleon, and while a youth, he produced several military drawings in lithography. H ...
Achille Devéria
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (6 February 180023 December 1857) was a French painter and lithographer known for his portraits of famous writers and artists. His younger brother was the Romantic painter Eugène Devéria, and two of his six ...
(1800–1857), painter, engraver
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Charles Philipon
Charles Philipon (19 April 1800 – 25 January 1861) was a French lithographer, caricaturist and journalist. He was the founder and director of the satirical political journals '' La Caricature'' and of ''Le Charivari''.
Early life
Cha ...
(1800–1861), caricaturist
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Paul Huet
Paul Huet (3 October 1803 – 8 January 1869) was a French painter and printmaking, printmaker born in Paris. He studied under Antoine-Jean Gros, Gros and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Guerin. He met the English painter Richard Parkes Bonington in the ...
Eugène Isabey
Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey (22 July 1803, in Paris – 25 April 1886, in Montévrain) was a French painter, lithographer and watercolorist in the Romantic style.
Biography
He was born to Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a well known painter who ...
Édouard Viénot
Édouard Viénot was a successful society portrait painter with a studio at 92 rue de la Victoire, Paris.
He was born in Fontainebleau on 13 September 1804. He entered the École des Beaux Arts in Paris on 4 October 1822.
Viénot is probably to ...
(born 1804), painter
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Hippolyte Bayard
Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process that produced direct positive paper prints in the camera and presented the world's first public e ...
(1807–1887), photographer
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Honoré Daumier
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (; February 26, 1808February 10, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second N ...
(1808–1879), painter,
lithograph
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...
er, sculptor
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Louis Boulanger
Louis Candide Boulanger (1806 – 1867) was a French Romantic painter, pastellist, lithographer and a poet, known for his religious and allegorical subjects, portraits, genre scenes.
Life
Boulanger was born in Piedmont where his father, Fran ...
Auguste Préault Auguste may refer to:
People Surname
* Arsène Auguste (born 1951), Haitian footballer
* Donna Auguste (born 1958), African-American businesswoman
* Georges Auguste (born 1933), Haitian painter
* Henri Auguste (1759–1816), Parisian gold an ...
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 ...
(1810–1865), painter
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Eugène André Oudiné
Eugène André Oudiné (1 January 1810, Paris – 12 April 1887, Paris) was a French sculptor and engraver of medals and coins, and devoted himself from the beginning to the medallist's branch of sculpture, although he also excelled in monumental ...
(1810–1875), sculptor, engraver
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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 ...
(1811–1889), painter
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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 ...
Charles Jacque
Charles-Émile Jacque (23 May 1813 – 7 May 1894) was a French painter of Pastoralism and engraver who was, with Jean-François Millet, part of the Barbizon School. He first learned to engrave maps when he spent seven years in the French Army.
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(1813–1894), painter
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Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism ...
(1814–1875), painter
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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 ...
(1815–1879), painter
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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (; 21 February 181531 January 1891) was a French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of É ...
Charles Marville
Charles Marville, the pseudonym of Charles François Bossu (Paris 17 July 1813 – 1 June 1879 Paris), was a French photographer, who mainly photographed architecture, landscapes and the urban environment. He used both paper and glass negatives. ...
(1816–1879), painter, engraver, photographer
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Antoine Chintreuil
Antoine Chintreuil (May 15, 1814 – August 8, 1873) was a French landscape art, 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 Bohemianism, Bohem ...
François Bonvin
François Bonvin (November 22, 1817 – December 19, 1887) was a French Realism (arts), realist painter.
Early life
Bonvin was born in humble circumstances in Paris, the son of a police officer and a seamstress. When he was four years old hi ...
(1817–1887), painter
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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 ...
(1817–1878), painter
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Johan Barthold Jongkind
Johan Barthold Jongkind (3 June 1819 – 9 February 1891) was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He painted marine landscapes in a free manner and is regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism.
Biography
Jongkind was born in the town of Lattro ...
(1819–1891) (Dutch, worked in France), painter
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Théodore Chassériau
Théodore Chassériau (September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, Dominican-born French Romanticism, Romantic Painting, painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, ...
(1819–1856), painter
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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 ...
(1819–1877), painter
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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. ...
(1820–1876), painter
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Nadar
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloon (aircraft), balloonist, and proponent of Aircraft#Heavier-than-air – aerodynes, h ...
(Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820–1910), photographer
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Charles Méryon
Charles Meryon (sometimes Méryon, 23 November 1821 – 14 February 1868) was a French artist who worked almost entirely in etching, as he had colour blindness. Although now little-known in the English-speaking world, he is generally recognise ...
(1821–1868), printmaker (etching)
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Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals ( animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include '' Ploughing in the Nivernais'', fi ...
Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel (; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to ''Diccionario Enciclopedi ...
(1823–1889), painter
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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 ...
(1824–1887), sculptor and painter
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Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ran ...
Théodule Ribot
Théodule-Augustin Ribot (August 8, 1823September 11, 1891) was a French realist painter and printmaker.
He was born in Saint-Nicolas-d'Attez, and studied at the École des Arts et Métiers de Châlons before moving to Paris in 1845. There he ...
(1824–1891), painter
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Eugène Boudin
Eugène Louis Boudin (; 12 July 18248 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summa ...
(1824–1898), painter
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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 ...
(1824–1898), painter
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William-Adolphe 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 ...
(1825–1905), painter
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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.' ...
(1826–1898), painter
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (11 May 1827 – 12 October 1875) was a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III.
Life
Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux en ...
(1827–1875), sculptor
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Elie Delaunay
Elie and Earlsferry is a coastal town and former royal burgh in Fife, and parish, Scotland, situated within the East Neuk beside Chapel Ness on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, eight miles east of Leven. The burgh comprised the linked ...
Achille Emperaire
Achille is a French and Italian masculine given name, derived from the Greek mythological hero Achilles. It may refer to:
People Artists
* Achille Beltrame (1871–1945), Italian painter
* Achille Calici (c. 1565–?), Italian painter
* Achi ...
(1829–1898), painter and a friend of
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 ...
Aimé Morot
Aimé Nicolas Morot (16 June 1850 – 12 August 1913) was a French painter and sculptor in the Academic Art style.
Biography
Aimé Nicolas Morot, son of François-Aimé Morot and Catherine-Elisabeth Mansuy, was born in Rue d'Amerval 4 in Nancy ...
(1850–1915), painter and son in law of
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ran ...
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...
,
Modernism
Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...
,
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...
,
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...
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Les Nabis
Les Nabis (French: les nabis, ) were a group of young French artists active in Paris from 1888 until 1900, who played a large part in the transition from impressionism and academic art to abstract art, symbolism and the other early movements of m ...
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Fauvism
Fauvism /ˈfoʊvɪzm̩/ is the style of ''les Fauves'' (French language, French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early 20th-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the Representation (arts), repr ...
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Symbolism
Symbolism or symbolist may refer to:
Arts
* Symbolism (arts), a 19th-century movement rejecting Realism
** Symbolist movement in Romania, symbolist literature and visual arts in Romania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
** Russian sy ...
,
Symbolist painters
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...
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Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
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Primitivism
Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate a "primitive" experience. It is also defined as a philosophical doctrine that considers "primitive" peoples as nobler than civilized peoples and was an o ...
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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 ...
(1830–1903), painter
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Étienne-Jules Marey
Étienne-Jules Marey (; 5 March 1830, Beaune, Côte-d'Or – 15 May 1904, Paris) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer.
His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinema ...
(1830–1904), photographer
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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 ...
(1832–1883), painter
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Gustave Doré
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( , , ; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, as a printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engraving ...
(1832–1883), engraver
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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 ...
(1834–1917), painter, sculptor
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Pierre Mallet Pierre Mallet (1836–98) was a French artist known for painted designs on ceramic ware, who mainly worked in England.
Life
Mallet was born in 1836 in at Jussey in Haute-Saône, France. He was trained in etching. He married and had two daughters ...
(1836-1898), painter of ceramics
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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 ...
(1836–1904), painter
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Jules Chéret
Jules Chéret (31 May 1836 – 23 September 1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of ''Belle Époque'' poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster.
Early life and career
Born in Paris to a poor but ...
(1836–1932), painter, other media
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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 ...
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 ...
(1840–1916), painter, draftsman,
lithograph
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...
er
*
Auguste Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a uniqu ...
(1840–1917), sculptor
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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 ...
(1840–1926), painter; a founder of French impressionist painting
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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 ...
(1841–1919), painter
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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''.
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(1841–1870), painter
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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 ...
(1841–1895), painter
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Marie Bracquemond
Marie Bracquemond (1 December 1840 – 17 January 1916) was a French Impressionist artist. She was one of four notable women in the Impressionist movement, along with Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), and Eva Gonzales (1847- ...
Alexander Louis Leloir
Alexandre-Louis Leloir (14 March 1843 – 28 January 1884) was a French painter specializing in genre and history paintings.
Life and career
Alexandre-Louis Leloir was born in Paris, France. He was born into a family with a rich artistic herit ...
(1843–1884), painter
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Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) at the Jean Antonin Mercié
Jean may refer to:
People
* Jean (female given name)
* Jean (male given name)
* Jean (surname)
Fictional characters
* Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character
* Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations
* Jea ...
(1845–1916), sculptor
*
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (also known as Benjamin-Constant), born Jean-Joseph Constant (10 June 1845 – 26 May 1902), was a French painter and etcher best known for his Oriental subjects and portraits.
Biography
Benjamin-Constant was bor ...
(1845–1902), painter
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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 ...
(1848–1894), painter
* Henri Biva (1848–1929), painter
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Jules Bastien-Lepage
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1 November 1848 – 10 December 1884) was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of naturalism, an artistic style that emerged from the later phase of the Realist movement.
His most famous work is his lan ...
(1848–1884), painter
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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 ...
(1848–1903), painter, sculptor
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Henry Lerolle
Henry Lerolle (3 October 1848 – 22 April 1929) was a French painter, art collector and patron, born in Paris. He studied at Académie Suisse and in the studio of Louis Lamothe.
His work was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1868, 1885, and 189 ...
(1848–1929), painter
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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 ...
(1849–1906), painter
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Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
Pierre-Gérard Carrier-Belleuse (28 January 1851 in Paris – 29 January 1932 in Paris) was a French painter.
Biography
His first studies were with his father, the sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. Later he studied with Alexandre Cab ...
(1851–1932), painter
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2 ...
(1853–1890) (Dutch, worked in France), painter
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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 ...
(1854–1926), painter
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Emilie Jenny Weyl
Emilie Jenny Weyl, (1855–1934) was a French sculptor. She exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the 1889 Exposition Universelle and the 1900 Exposition Universelle, both in Paris.
Biography
Weyl was born in 1855 ...
Henry Moret
Henry Moret (12 December 1856 – 5 May 1913) was a French Impressionist painter. He was one of the artists who associated with Paul Gauguin at Pont-Aven in Brittany. He is best known for his involvement in the Pont-Aven artist colony and his ric ...
(1856–1913), painter
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Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget (; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French ''flâneur'' and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to mod ...
(Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927), photographer
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Mathurin Janssaud
Marthurin Janssaud (1857 in Manosque, France – 1940) was a French painter.
Career
Little is known of Janssaud's early life other than he left his home province before the onset of World War I. Like many artists of the day he initially tra ...
(1857–1940), painter
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Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff (born Mariya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, russian: Мария Константиновна Башки́рцева; 1858–1884) was a Ukrainian artist from the Russian Empire who worked in Paris, France. She died aged 25.
Li ...
(1858-1884), painter and sculptor
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Georges-Pierre Seurat
Georges Pierre Seurat ( , , ; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surf ...
(1859–1891), painter
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Antoine Bourdelle
Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important fi ...
(1861–1929), sculptor
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Aristide Maillol
Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (; December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker.Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette . "Maillol, Aristide". ''Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online''. Oxford University P ...
(1861–1944), sculptor
* Louis Vivin (1861–1936), painter
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Antonio de la Gandara
Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular mal ...
(1861–1917), painter
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Gaston Bussière
Gaston Bussière (April 24, 1862 in Cuisery – October 29, 1928 or 1929 in Saulieu) was a French Symbolist painter and illustrator.
Biography
Bussière studied at l'Académie des Beaux-Arts in Lyon before entering the école des beaux-arts d ...
(1862–1929),
Symbolism
Symbolism or symbolist may refer to:
Arts
* Symbolism (arts), a 19th-century movement rejecting Realism
** Symbolist movement in Romania, symbolist literature and visual arts in Romania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
** Russian sy ...
movement painter and illustrator
*
Ernest de Chamaillard
Henri Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard, usually known as Ernest de Chamaillard, (9 December 1862, Gourlizon – 1931, Eaubonne) was a French artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven.
Biography
The son of a ...
Paul Signac
Paul Victor Jules Signac ( , ; 11 November 1863 – 15 August 1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style.
Biography
Paul Signac was born in Paris on 11 November 1863. H ...
(1863–1935), painter
*
Camille Bouvagne
Camille Bouvagne (born Jean-Baptiste Camille Bouvagne) (1864–1936) was a French painter from Lyon, France. A member of the Lyon School (L'École de Lyon or École lyonnaise), Bouvagne exhibited regularly at the Le Salon in Lyon (Salon de la So ...
(1864–1936), painter
* René Georges Hermann-Paul (1864–1940), graphic artist, illustrator, painter
*
William Didier-Pouget
William Didier-Pouget (14 November 1864 – 12 September 1959) was a French artist known for his landscape paintings. He focused primarily on the countryside of southern France, infusing his landscapes, always painted outdoors (en plein air), wit ...
Paul Sérusier
Paul Sérusier (9 November 1864 – 7 October 1927) was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabis movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism.
Education
Sérusier was born in Paris. He studied a ...
(1864–1927), painter
*
Paul Ranson
Paul-Élie Ranson (29 March 1861 – 20 February 1909) was a French painter and writer associated with Les Nabis.
Biography
He was born in Limoges. His mother died in childbirth, so he was raised and educated by his grandparents and his f ...
(1864–1909), painter
* Seraphine Louis (1864–1942), painter
*
Henri Jourdain
Henri Jourdain (1 June 1909 – 14 April 1988) was a French trade union leader.
Born in Ennordres, Jourdain was orphaned at the age of nine. He moved in with a cousin and began working at the age of 13. When he was 20, he completed his com ...
(1864–1931), painter, prints or lithographs of landscapes usually by the water
*
Albert Aurier
Gabriel-Albert Aurier (5 May 1865 – 5 October 1892) was a French poet, art critic and painter, associated with the Symbolist movement.
Career
The son of a notary born in Châteauroux, Indre, Aurier went to Paris in 1883 to study law, but hi ...
(1865–1892), poet,
art critic
An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism and they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures, and catalogue ...
and painter devoted to
Symbolism
Symbolism or symbolist may refer to:
Arts
* Symbolism (arts), a 19th-century movement rejecting Realism
** Symbolist movement in Romania, symbolist literature and visual arts in Romania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
** Russian sy ...
*
Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon (23 September 18657 April 1938) was a French painter who was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des B ...
(1865–1938), painter
*
Félix Vallotton
Félix Édouard Vallotton (; December 28, 1865December 29, 1925) was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as . He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He painted portra ...
(1865–1925) (Swiss, worked in France), painter, engraver
*
Jacqueline Marval
Jacqueline Marval was the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet (19 October 1866 – 28 May 1932), who was a French painter, lithographer and sculptor.
Early life
Vallet was born in Quaix-en-Chartreuse into a family of school teachers. She ...
(1866-1932), the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet, French painter
*
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (; 3 October 186723 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. A founding member of the Post-Impressionist ...
(1867–1947), painter
*
Angèle Delasalle
Mathilde Angèle Delasalle (25 February 1867 – c. 1941) was a French artist known for her painting and etching. Her works are held in the collections of many museums.
Biography
Delasalle first attended a convent school in Paris, the "Institut ...
Ker-Xavier Roussel
Ker-Xavier Roussel (10 December 1867 – 6 June 1944) was a French painter associated with Les Nabis.
Biography
Born François Xavier Roussel in Lorry-lès-Metz, Moselle in 1867, at age fifteen he studied at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris; alon ...
(1867–1944), painter
*
Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard (, 10 March 1867 – 20 May 1942) was a French architect and designer, and a prominent figure of the Art Nouveau style. He achieved early fame with his design for the Castel Beranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building ...
(1867–1942), architect and decorator
*
Édouard Vuillard
Jean-Édouard Vuillard (; 11 November 186821 June 1940) was a French painter, decorative artist and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, he was a prominent member of the Nabis, making paintings which assembled areas of pure color, and interior s ...
(1868–1940), painter
* Georges Lacombe (1868–1916), sculptor
*
Émile Bernard
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his nota ...
(1868–1941), painter
*
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 ...
(1869–1954), painter, other media
*
Adolf de Meyer
Baron Adolph de Meyer (1 September 1868 – 6 January 1946) was a photographer famed for his photographic portraits in the early 20th century, many of which depicted celebrities such as Mary Pickford, Rita Lydig, Luisa Casati, Billie Burke, Iren ...
(1869–1949), photographer
* Georges d'Espagnat (1870–1950), painter, illustrator, engraver
Twentieth century (pre-World War II)
See also
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...
,
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...
,
Modernism
Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...
,
Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...
,
Puteaux Group
The Section d'Or ("Golden Section"), also known as Groupe de Puteaux or Puteaux Group, was a collective of Painting, painters, sculptors, poets and critics associated with Cubism and Orphism (art), Orphism. Based in the Parisian suburbs, the grou ...
,
Dada
Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ...
,
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to l ...
*
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 ...
(1871–1958), painter
*
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 ...
(1871–1945), painter
*
František Kupka
František Kupka (23 September 1871 – 24 June 1957), also known as ''Frank Kupka'' or ''François Kupka,'' was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic C ...
(1871–1957) (Czech, worked in France), painter
* Henri-Charles Manguin (1874–1943), painter
*
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 ...
(1875–1928), painter
*
Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturali ...
(1875–1947), painter
*
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 ...
(1875–1963), painter
*
Constantin Brâncuși
Constantin Brâncuși (; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian Sculpture, sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century and a pioneer of ...
(1876–1957) (French, born in Romania), sculptor
*
Maurice de Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 – 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 w ...
(1876–1958) (Flemish, worked in France), painter
*
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (5 November 1876 – 9 October 1918) was a French sculptor.
Life and art
Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Normandy region of France, the second son of Eugène and Lucie Duch ...
(1876–1918), sculptor
*
Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy (; 3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) was a French Fauvism, Fauvist painter. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramic art, ceramics and textile as well as decorative schemes for public bu ...
Jean Crotti
Jean Crotti (24 April 1878 – 30 January 1958) was a French painter.
Crotti was born in Bulle, Fribourg, Switzerland. He first studied in Munich, Germany at the School of Decorative Arts, then at age 23 moved to Paris to study art at the ...
(1878–1958) (Swiss), painter
*
Louis Marcoussis
Louis Marcoussis, formerly Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus or Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markus, (1878 or 1883, Łódź – October 22, 1941, Cusset) was a painter and engraver of Polish origin who lived in Paris for much of his life and became ...
(Louis Markus) (1878–1941 or 1883–1941) (Polish, worked in France), painter
*
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 ...
(1879–1953), painter
*
Maurice Berty
Maurice Berty (15 July 1884 – 23 December 1946) was a French illustrator from Gionges, Marne (department), Marne.
1884 births
1946 deaths
French illustrators
People from Marne (department)
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(1884-1946), illustrator
*
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 ...
(1880–1954), painter
*
Joseph Hémard
''Joseph Hémard'', a popular French book illustrator, was born in Les Mureaux, France, a small town on the Seine, northwest of Paris, on 2 August 1880. He died on 9 August 1961 in Paris. He was a prolific artist. During the early years of the 20th ...
(1880–1961), illustrator
*
Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes (; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on ...
(1881–1952), painter, writer, theorist
*
Henri Le Fauconnier
Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier (July 5, 1881 – December 25, 1946) was a French Cubist painter born in Hesdin. Le Fauconnier was seen as one of the leading figures among the Montparnasse Cubists. At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants Le Fauco ...
(1881–1946), painter
* Jacob Macznik (1905–1945), painterUndzere Farpainikte Kinstler, Hersh Fenster, Imprimerie Abècé, Paris 1951
*
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 ...
(1881–1955), painter
*
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 ...
(1882–1963), painter
* Auguste Chabaud (1882–1955), painter
*
Auguste Herbin
Auguste Herbin (29 April 1882 – 31 January 1960) was a French Painting, painter of modern art. He is best known for his Cubism, Cubist and abstract art, abstract paintings consisting of colorful Geometry, geometric figures. He co-founded the gr ...
(1882–1960), painter
*
Jean Metzinger
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1 ...
Marie Laurencin
Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883 – 8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian Avant-garde#:~:text=The avant-garde (/ˌ,art, culture, or society., avant-garde as a member of the Cubism, Cubist ...
(1883–1956), painter
*
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 ...
(1883–1955), painter
*
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (June 19, 1884 – July 9, 1974) was a French writer and artist associated with the Dada movement. He was born in Montpellier and died in Saint-Jeannet.
In addition to numerous early paintings, Ribemont-Dessaignes wro ...
(1884–1974), painter
*
Jacques Maroger
Jacques Maroger (; 1884–1962) was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museum's laboratory in Paris. He devoted his life to understanding the oil-based media of the Old Masters. He emigrated to the United States in 1939 and bec ...
(1884–1962), painter
*
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 ...
(1885–1941), painter
*
André Dunoyer de Segonzac
André Dunoyer de Segonzac (6 July 1884 – 17 September 1974) was a French painter and graphic artist.
Biography
Segonzac was born in Boussy-Saint-Antoine and spent his childhood there and in Paris. His parents wanted him to attend the military ...
(1884–1974), painter
*
Raymond Wintz
Raymond Wintz (Joseph Raimond Wintz) (1884–1956) was a Paris-born painter and engraver whose most famous paintings were of marine and coastal views in Brittany. He is best known for his painting ''The Blue Door'', which is still widely ava ...
(1884–1956), painter
*
Pierre Brissaud
Pierre Brissaud (23 December 1885 – 17 October 1964) was a French Art Deco illustrator, painter, and engraver whose father was Docteur Edouard Brissaud, a student of Docteur Charcot. He was born in Paris and trained at the École des Beaux-Ar ...
(1885–1964), painter
*
Roger de La Fresnaye
Roger de La Fresnaye (; 11 July 1885 – 27 November 1925) was a French Cubist painter.
Early years and education
La Fresnaye was born in Le Mans where his father, an officer in the French army, was temporarily stationed. The La Fresnayes were ...
(1885–1925), painter
*
Robert Antoine Pinchon
Robert Antoine Pinchon (, 1 July 1886 in Rouen – 9 January 1943 in Bois-Guillaume) was a French Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (''l'École de Rouen'') who was born and spent most of his life in France. He was consist ...
(1886–1943), French
Post-Impressionist
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...
painter of the
Rouen School
The Rouen School (L'École de Rouen) is a term used for artists or artisans born or working in Rouen, or for all artistic products from Rouen, such as Rouen faience of the 16th to 18th centuries.
The term was first used in 1902 by Arsène Alexa ...
(l'École de Rouen)
*
Amédée Ozenfant
Amédée Ozenfant (15 April 1886 – 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter and writer. Together with Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (later known as Le Corbusier) he founded the Purist movement.
Education
Ozenfant was born into a bourgeois f ...
(1886–1956), painter
* Jean (Hans) Arp (1886–1966), painter, sculptor
*
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with se ...
(1887–1985) (born in Belarus), painter
*
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 ...
(1887–1968), painter, sculptor, other media
* Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889–1963), painter
*
Anna Quinquaud
Anna Fanny Marguerite Quinquaud (1890–1984) was a French explorer and award-winning sculptor. From 1925, she travelled to the French-speaking countries of East Africa where she created numerous sculptures and water colours inspired by her impre ...
(1890–1984), explorer and sculptor
*
Ossip Zadkine
Ossip Zadkine (russian: Осип Цадкин; 28 January 1888 – 25 November 1967) was a Belarusian-born French artist. He is best known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs.
Early years and education
Zadkine was born on ...
(1890–1967) (Russian born), sculptor
*
Jacques Lipchitz
Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Cr ...
(1891–1973) (born in Lithuania), sculptor
*
Max Ernst
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism ...
(1891–1976) (German born), painter, sculptor
*
Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron
Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron (23 August 1891 – 30 March 1949) was a French watercolour painter known for her still-lifes of flowers. She also painted war damaged churches in the 1940s.
Life
Lemoine-Lagron was born in the Paris suburb of Gournay-s ...
(1891–1949), painter
* Louis Favre (1892–1956), painter, creator of lithographs
*
Bram van Velde
Bram (Abraham Gerardus) van Velde (19 October 1895 – 28 December 1981) was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style related to Tachisme, and Lyrical Abstraction. He is often seen as mem ...
(1892–1981) (Dutch, worked in France), painter
*
Chaïm Soutine
Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a Belarusian painter who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.
Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the ...
(1894–1943) (born in Belarus), painter
* Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986), photographer
*
Jean Maurice Rothschild
Jean-Maurice Rothschild (1902–1998) was an interior designer and furniture artist, whose most famous works were for the cruise liner Normandie, and the restaurant of the Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower ( ; french: links=yes, tour Eiffe ...
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 ...
(1895–1975), painter, engraver
*
Albert Gilles
Albert Gilles (20 August 1895–1979) was a French coppersmith known for his metalworking technique of shaping Ductility, malleable metals. During his career as a designer and artisan, Gilles crafted for The Walt Disney Company, Disney, Chrysler ...
(1895–1979), metal embosser, working with copper
* Lucie Bouniol (1896–1988), sculptor, painter
*
André Masson
André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist.
Biography
Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but when he was eight his father's work took the family first briefly to Lille and then to Brussel ...
(1896–1987), painter
*
René Iché
René Iché (21 January 1897 – 23 December 1954) was a 20th-century French sculptor.
Life and work
René Iché was born in Sallèles-d'Aude, France. He fought in World War I, where he was injured and gassed. After the war, he earned a degre ...
(1897–1954), sculptor, painter
*
Jean Fautrier
Jean Fautrier (May 16, 1898 – July 21, 1964) was a French painter, illustrator, printmaker, and sculptor. He was one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme.
Early life
Jean Fautrier was born in Paris in 1898. He was given his unwed m ...
(1898–1964), painter
*
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 ...
(1898–1962), painter, engraver, sculptor
*
Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux (; 24 May 1899 – 19 October 1984) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim ...
(1899–1984) (Belgian), painter
*
Brassaï
Brassaï (; pseudonym of Gyula Halász; 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous H ...
(Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary), photographer
*
Yves Tanguy
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy (, ), was a French surrealist painter.
Biography
Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born January 5, 1900, at the Ministry of Naval Affa ...
(1900–1955) (naturalized American), painter
Twentieth century (post-World War II)
See also
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...
*
René Pellos
René Pellos (born René Marcel Pellarin, 22 January 1900, Lyon – 8 April 1998, Cannes) was a French artist, cartoonist and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. He also competed in the men's tournament at ...
(1900–1998), cartoonist
*
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 ...
(1900–1989), painter
* Madeleine Schlumberger or Marie d’Ailleurs’ (1900–1980), artist, writer
*
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and ...
(1901–1966) (Swiss, worked in Paris), sculptor, painter
*
Alfred-Georges Regner
Alfred-Georges Regner (22 February 1902, in Amiens – 20 September 1987, in Bayeux), was a French surrealist painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or ...
(1901–1987), painter, engraver
*
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French Painting, painter and sculpture, sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what ...
(1901–1985), painter
* Charles Cobelle (1902–1994), painter
*
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Biography
B ...
(1902–1975) (French, born in Germany), sculptor, photographer, engraver
*
Victor Brauner
Victor Brauner (, also spelled Viktor Brauner; 15 June 1903 – 12 March 1966) was a Romanian painter and sculptor of the surrealist movement.
Early life
He was born in Piatra Neamț, Romania, the son of a Jewish timber manufacturer who subseque ...
(1903–1966) (Romanian), painter
*
Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung (21 September 1904 – 7 December 1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, ...
(1904–1992) (born in Germany), painter
*
Jean Hélion
Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. He w ...
(1904–1987), painter
*
Pierre Tal-Coat
Pierre Tal-Coat (real name Pierre Louis Jacob; 1905–1985) was a French artist considered to be one of the founders of Tachisme.
Life and work
He was born the son of a fisherman, in the village of Clohars-Carnoët, Finistère in 1905. He atten ...
(1905–1985), painter
* Elisa Breton (1906–2000), artist and writer, third wife of French writer and surrealist
André Breton
André Robert Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') o ...
Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely (; born Győző Vásárhelyi, ; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement.
His work entitled ''Zebra'', created in 1937, is consi ...
(1908–1997) (born in Hungary), painter
*
Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his image ...
(Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, called "Balthus") (1908–2001) (Polish born), painter
* Mario Tauzin (1909–1979)
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Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq
Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq (1910–1973) was a French illustrator.
1910 births
1973 deaths
French illustrators
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(1910–1973), illustrator
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Jacques Nathan Garamond
Jacques Nathan Garamond (26 March 1910 – 25 February 2001) was a French graphic designer.
Biography
His birth name was Jacques Nathan. During the Second World War, he changed his last name to Garamond, and used his actual name of Nathan as a ...
Lucien Hervé
Lucien Hervé (born László Elkán on 7 August 1910 in Hungary, died 26 June 2007 in Paris) was a Hungarian photographer. He was notable for his architectural photography, beginning with his work for Le Corbusier.
Biography
* 1910 : Born as ...
(László Elkán) (1910–2007) (born in Hungary), photographer
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Othello Radou
Othello Radou (1910–2006) was a French artist of the 20th century.
Biography
Childhood
Born in Monte Carlo in 1910 to a musically talented family, his father was a French national and a successful violinist. When Othello Radou was 17, hi ...
(1910–2006), painter
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Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a varie ...
(1911–2010) (lived and died in America), sculptor, other media
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Ervin Marton
Ervin Marton (known as Marton Ervin in Hungarian; 17 June 1912 – 30 April 1968) was a Hungarian-born artist and photographer who became an integral part of the Paris art culture beginning in 1937. An internationally recognized photographer, h ...
(1912–1968), photographer and artist
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Wols
Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (27 May 19131 September 1951), a German painter and photographer predominantly active in France. Though broadly unrecognized in his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of lyrical abstracti ...
(1913–1951) (born in Germany), painter
* Pierre Wemaëre (1913–2010), painter
* Etienne Martin (1913–1995), sculptor
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Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël (; January 5, 1914 – March 16, 1955) was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles.
Early life
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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. ...
(1916–1988), painter
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Constantine Andreou
Constantine Andreou (also: Costas Andreou, Kostas Andreou; french: Constantin Andréou, Costas Andréou; el, Κωνσταντίνος Ανδρέου, Κώστας Ανδρέου) (March 24, 1917 – October 8, 2007) was a painter and sculp ...
Marcel Mouly
Marcel Mouly (February 6, 1918 – January 7, 2008) was a French artist who painted in an Abstract art, abstract style.
Early life
Mouly was born in Paris, France, on February 6, 1918. His interest in art developed in grade school. Mouly w ...
(1918–2008), painter, print maker
* Bernard Cathelin (1919–2004), painter
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Maurice Boitel
Maurice Boitel (July 31, 1919 – August 11, 2007) was a French painter.
Artistic life
Boitel belonged to the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" ("Young Picture") of the School of Paris,The School of Paris (1945–1965) by Lydia Harambourg. ...
(1919–2007), painter
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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 hel ...
(1919–2022), painter
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Gabrielle Bellocq
Gabrielle Bellocq (15 June 1920 - 29 July 1999) was a French Neo-impressionist pastel artist. She was known as a colorist, and her works, which were not painted from life, included a variety of colors that produced an unusual perspective and imp ...
(1920–1999), painter
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César Baldaccini
César (born Cesare Baldaccini; 1 January 1921 – 6 December 1998), also occasionally referred to as César Baldaccini (), was a noted French sculptor.
César was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressio ...
(called "César") (1921–1998), sculptor
* Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921–2021), painter
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Georges Mathieu
Georges Mathieu (27 January 1921 – 10 June 2012) was a French abstract painter, art theorist, and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is considered one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction, a trend of informalism.
Bi ...
Simon Hantaï
Simon Hantaï (7 December 1922, Biatorbágy, Hungary – Paris, 12 September 2008; took French nationality in 1966) is a painter generally associated with abstract art.
Biography
After studying at the Budapest School of Fine Art, he traveled ...
(1922–2018) (born in Hungary), painter
* Paul Crotto (1922–2016), painter, sculptor and printmaker
* François Ozenda (1923–1976), painter
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Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines (known officially as Métamatics) that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Tinguely's art s ...
(1925–1991) (Swiss), sculptor
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Robert Filliou
Robert Filliou (17 January 1926 – 2 December 1987) was a French artist associated with Fluxus, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro.
Life
In 1943, Filliou became a member of the French Communi ...
(1926–1987), other media
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Raymond Hains
Raymond Hains (9 November 1926 – 28 October 2005) was a prominent French visual artist and a founder of the Nouveau réalisme movement. In 1960, he signed, along with Arman, François Dufrêne, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeg ...
(1926–2005), other media
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Paul Rebeyrolle
Paul Rebeyrolle (3 November 1926 in Eymoutiers – 7 February 2005 in Côte-d'Or) was a French painter.
Life and works
As a child he had tuberculosis of the bone, which caused for long periods of immobility. Later he studied in Limoges and joine ...
(1926–2005), painter
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François Morellet
François Morellet (30 April 1926 – 10 May 2016) was a French contemporary abstract painter, sculptor, and light artist. His early work prefigured minimal art and conceptual art and he played a prominent role in the development of geometrical a ...
(1926–2016), painter
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Jacques de la Villeglé
Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...
(1926–), other media (ripped posters)
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Georges Badin
Georges Badin (March 13, 1927 – November 23, 2014) was a French poet and painter.
Georges Badin was the curator of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret from 1967 to 1986.
Recent exhibitions
* Maison de la Catalanité, Perpignan (2011)
Galerie Åk ...
(1927–2014), painter
* Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), painter
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Yves Klein
Yves Klein (; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein w ...
(1928–1962), painter
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Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette (; 1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine ''Cahiers du Cinéma''. He made twenty-nine films, including ''L'amour fou' ...
(1928–2016), filmmaker
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Arman
Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (''cachets'', ''allures d'objet'') to ...
(Armand Fernandez) (1928–2005), sculptor
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Gérard Gasiorowski
Gérard Gasiorowski (1930–1986) was a French photographer, painter, and fictive artist.
Life and work
Gasiorowski was born in Paris on March 30, 1930. He studied at the School of Applied Arts between 1947 and 1951, and he married Marie-Cla ...
(1930–1986), painter, other media
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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 monum ...
(1930–2002), sculptor
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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 ...
(1931–2010) (Uruguay/French, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico), abstract realism
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Jules Michel
Jules Michel (born 10 April 1931) is a French artist.
As a child of eight, while exploring the family attic, Jules Michel discovered an old oil-paint box. With it, he quickly improvised his first paintings.
He was an audacious and reckless yo ...
(1931–), painter, sculptor
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Tomi Ungerer
Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (; 28 November 1931 – 9 February 2019) was an Alsatians (people), Alsatian artist and writer. He published over 140 books ranging from children's books to adult works and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. H ...
(1931–2019), artist, illustrator
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Jean-Marie Straub
Jean-Marie is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Jean-Marie Abgrall (born 1950), a French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult expert, and graduate in criminal law
* Jean-Marie C ...
Jean-Pierre Yvaral
Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1934–2002), professionally known as Yvaral, was a French artist working in the fields of op-art and kinetic art from 1954 onwards. He was the son of Victor Vasarely, who was a pioneer of op-art.
Life and work
Yvaral s ...
(1934–2002) (son of Victor Vasarely), painter
*Sanejouand, Jean-Michel Sanejouand (1934–2021), sculptor, painter
*Ben Vautier (called "Ben") (1935–), painter, other media
*Martial Raysse (1936–), painter
*Daniel Buren (1938–), sculptor, painter
*Pierre Laffillé (1938–2011), painter
*Henri Sert (1938–1964), painter
*Gérard Fromanger (1939–2021), painter, other media
*Sandra Jayat (c.1939–), painter, poet, author
*Nancy Wilson-Pajic (1941–), media artist, feminist artist, installation artist, photographer
*Bernar Venet (1941–) (lives in America), sculptor
*Daniel Dezeuze (1942–), other media
*Anne Poirier (1942–), painter, other media
*Ksenia Milicevic (1942–), painter
*Tania Mouraud (1942–), contemporary artist
*Jean Jacques Surian (1942–), painter and ceramist, lives in Marseilles
*Patrick Bokanowski (1943–), filmmaker
*Pierre Risch (1943–), painter, lithograph, engraver, designer, pastellist, watercolorist
*Slobodan Pajic (1943–), painter, media artist, installation artist
*René-Louis Baron (1944–), conceptualist, algorithmic music composer
*Christian Boltanski (1944–), painter, photographer, other media, sculptor
*Jacques Pellegrin (painter), Jacques Pellegrin (1944–), painter
*Henri Richelet (1944–), painter
*Thierry Agullo (1945–1980), mixed media
*Jean-Yves Lechevallier (1946–), sculptor
*Gérard Garouste (1946–), sculptor, painter, other media
*Jean-Marie Poumeyrol (1946–), painter
*Denis Schneider (1946–), painter
*Orlan (1947–), performance artist, body artist
*Bracha L. Ettinger (1948–) (born in Tel Aviv), painter, photographer, new media, artists' books
*Zamor (artist), Guillerm Zamor (1951–), painter, sculptor, writer
*Thibaut de Reimpré (1949–), abstract painter
*Claude-Max Lochu (1951–), painter
*Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951–), painter, sculptor, photographer, writer
*Jean-Marc Bustamante (1952–), painter, sculptor, photographer
*Hélène Agofroy (1953–), contemporary artist
*Vanilla Beer (1953–), painter, daughter of Anthony Stafford Beer
*Thierry Bisch (1953–), painter
*Bernard Frize (1954–), painter
*Michel Mimran (1954–)
*Jean Paul Leon (1955–), painter, sculptor, writer
*Joel Ducorroy (1955–), licence plate artist
*Patrick Moya (1955–), painter, sculptor, media artist (see :fr:Patrick Moya)
*Patrick Mimran (1956–), multimedia artist
*Michel De Caso (1956–), painter, sculptor
*Robert Combas (1957–), painter
*Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen) (1957–), media artist
*Pascal Lecocq (1958–) painter, set designer
*Emmanuel Flipo (1958–), painter
*Hervé Di Rosa (1959–), painter
*Zaven Paré (1961–), new media artist
*Victor Orly (1962–), (lives and works in Marseilles), painter, ceramist
*Pierre Huyghe (1962–), media, film, video
*Bibi (artist), Bibi (1964–), installation artist
*Damien Valero (1965–), mixed media artist
*Manu Farrarons (1967–), tattoo artist, graphic designer, illustrator, other media
*Lionel Estève (1967–), (lives and works in Brussels), sculpture and installation artist
*Béatrice Cussol (1970–), watercolor, drawing, mural
*Elsa Dax (1972–), painter
*Jean-François Batellier (1974–), caricaturist and cartoonist
*Abdelkader Benchamma (1975–), drawings, sculptor
*Morgane Tschiember (1976–), sculptor, video artist
*Y Liver (1977–) (lives and works in Paris), video maker and performance artists
*Natalie d'Arbeloff, cartoonist and painter
*Bazévian Delacapucinière, painter
*Thierry Noir (1958–), artist and muralist
French photographers
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Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget (; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French ''flâneur'' and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to mod ...
(Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927)
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Brassaï
Brassaï (; pseudonym of Gyula Halász; 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous H ...
(Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary)
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Hippolyte Bayard
Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process that produced direct positive paper prints in the camera and presented the world's first public e ...
Lucien Hervé
Lucien Hervé (born László Elkán on 7 August 1910 in Hungary, died 26 June 2007 in Paris) was a Hungarian photographer. He was notable for his architectural photography, beginning with his work for Le Corbusier.
Biography
* 1910 : Born as ...
(László Elkán) (1910–), photographer (born in Hungary)
* Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986)
*Ange Leccia (1952–), photographer, filmmaker
*Jean-François Lepage (1960–), photographer
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Étienne-Jules Marey
Étienne-Jules Marey (; 5 March 1830, Beaune, Côte-d'Or – 15 May 1904, Paris) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer.
His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinema ...
(1830–1904)
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Charles Marville
Charles Marville, the pseudonym of Charles François Bossu (Paris 17 July 1813 – 1 June 1879 Paris), was a French photographer, who mainly photographed architecture, landscapes and the urban environment. He used both paper and glass negatives. ...
(1816–1879)
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Nadar
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloon (aircraft), balloonist, and proponent of Aircraft#Heavier-than-air – aerodynes, h ...
(Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820–1910)
*Nicéphore Niépce, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), inventor of photography
*Pierre et Gilles (Pierre: 1949, Gilles: 1953), photographers (active since 1976)
*Michel Poivert (1965–), photography historian, president of Société française de photographie
*Herman Puig (originally from Cuba), photographer, filmmaker
*Constant Puyo (1857–1933)
*Marc Riboud (1923–2016), photographer
*Georges Rousse (1947–), photographer
*Bettina Rheims (1952–), photographer
*Willy Ronis (1910–2009), photographer
*Lise Sarfati (1958–), photographer
*Jean-Louis Schoellkopf (1946–), photographer
*Alex Strohl (1989–)
*Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud (1866–1951), photographer and military officer
*Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951–)
*Xavier Veilhan (1963–), photographer, other media
*Jean-Marie Villard (1828–1899)
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Wols
Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (27 May 19131 September 1951), a German painter and photographer predominantly active in France. Though broadly unrecognized in his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of lyrical abstracti ...
(Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913–1951) (German, worked in France), photographer
See also
*Art history
*European art history
*History of painting
*List of French painters
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:French Artists
French artists,
Lists of artists by nationality
Lists of French people by occupation, Artists