The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century,

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

and

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 * Pierre de Montreuil (c.1200–1266), architect *

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 *

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 *

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. Document ...

(Dutch, worked in Burgundy) (1365-1416), painter *

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 *

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

, Fontainebleau,

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 ill ...

* Jacques Morel (c.1395–1459), sculptor *

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 Netherlan ...

(c.1410–c.1466), painter, miniatures *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 * Michel Colombe (c.1430–1515), sculptor *

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 *

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 *

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 (artist), Jacques Morel. Following from the work of Jean de la Huerta beginni ...

(active in the 1460s), sculptor *

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 ...

(c.1485–1541) (Flemish born), painter, miniatures * Jean Duvet (c.1485–c.1570), engraver * Josse Lieferinxe (active 1493–1508) (Flemish born), painter *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 decor ...

(1510–1590), master potter *

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 *

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 *

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 t ...

(c.1515–1578), sculptor, architect *

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 *

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 ...

(c. 1522–1593), painter * Germain Pilon (c.1535–1590), sculptor * Barthélemy Prieur (c.1536–1616), sculptor *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 ...

(1560-1612), engraver * Toussaint Dubreuil (c.1561–1602), painter *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 mathema ...

(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 ...

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 ...

, Cardinal Richelieu,

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Daniel Dumonstier (1574–1646), draftsman *

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 *

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 *

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 ...

(1590–1649), painter *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 ...

(1594–1665), painter * Antoine Le Nain (before 1600–?), painter * Louis Le Nain (after 1600–?), painter *

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 ...

(fl c. 1600–c. 1650), draftsman *

Abraham Bosse Abraham Bosse ( – 14 February 1676) was a French artist, mainly as a printmaker in etching, but also in watercolour.Claude Gelée, called Claude Lorrain (1600–1682), painter *

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) *

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 *

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 *

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 * Louise Moillon (1610–1696), painter *

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 ...

(1612–1695), painter *

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 * André Le Nôtre (1613–1700), landscape architect *

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 *

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. Biography Bourdon was born in Montpellier, Fran ...

(1616–1671), painter *

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 *

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 *

Guillaume Courtois Guillaume Courtois or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon ('the Burgundian'), (1628 – 14 or 15 June 1679 François 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. Biograph ...

(1628–1715), sculptor *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 i ...

(1656–1746), painter *

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 *

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 *

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

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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 reache ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

, Enlightenment, Gobelins. For art criticism, see

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 ...

* Alexis Simon Belle (1674–1734) *

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 ...

(1679–1752) (son of François), painter * Marie-Anne Horthemels (1682–1727), engraver *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 ...

(1686–1755), painter * Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels (1686–1767), engraver *

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 *

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 *

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 ...

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 ...

(1695–1736), painter * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699–1779), painter *

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 *

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 Margar ...

(1702–1762), sculptor *

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 ...

(1702–1789), painter * François Boucher (1703–1770), painter, engraver *

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. ...

(1704–1788), painter *

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 * Charles-André van Loo (Carle Van Loo) (1705–1765) (brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo), painter *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 ...

(1715–1783), painter * Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), sculptor *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 ...

(Drouais le fils) (1727–1775), painter * Jean-Baptiste Defernex (1729–1783), sculptor *

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 ...

(1732–1806), painter * Jean-Jacques Durameau (1733–1796), painter *

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 *

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 *

Joseph Ducreux Joseph, Baron Ducreux (26 June 1735 – 24 July 1802) was a French noble, portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver, who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France, and resumed his career at the conclusion of t ...

(1735–1802), painter *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 * Jean Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), sculptor *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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) *

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 *

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 land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the p ...

* Pierre Prudhon (1758–1823), painter

Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism)

See also

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

, Naturalism,

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 sym ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louis-Léopold Boilly Louis-Léopold Boilly (; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French 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 life. ...

(1761–1845), painter *

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 *

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 ...

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 *

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 *

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 ...

(1771–1835), painter * Pierre Narcisse Guérin (1771–1833), painter *

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 ...

(1772–1844), painter * Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet (1815–1886), lithographer *

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 *

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 *Étienne Bouhot (1780–1862), painter and art teacher *Alexandre-François Caminade (1783–1862), portraitist and religious painter *François Rude (1784–1855), sculptor *Eugénie Charen (1786–1824), painter *Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851), photographer *Charles de Steuben (1788–1856), painter active during the Napoleonic Era *Horace Vernet (1789–1863), painter *Jules Robert Auguste (c.1789–1850), painter *Elisa de Lamartine (1790–1863), painter and sculptor *Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), painter *Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), painter *Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875), sculptor *Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), painter *Raymond Bonheur (1796–1849), painter *Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875), painter *Fanny Alaux (1797–1880), painter *Paul Delaroche (1797–1856), painter *Julie Hugo (1797–1865), painter *Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), painter *Alfred Johannot (1800–1837), painter and engraver *Hippolyte Bellangé (1800–1866), painter *Camille Chantereine (1810–1847), painter *Achille Devéria (1800–1857), painter, engraver *Charles Philipon (1800–1861), caricaturist *Paul Huet (1803–1869), painter *François-Émile de Lansac (1803–1890), painter *Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, called) (1803–1847), engraver *Eugène Isabey (1803–1886), painter *Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804–1860), painter *Édouard Viénot (born 1804), painter *Hippolyte Bayard (1807–1887), photographer *Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), painter, lithographer, sculptor *Louis Boulanger (1808–1867), painter *Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (1808–1878) (born in Spain), painter *Auguste Préault (1809–1879), sculptor *Ignace François Bonhomme (1809–1881), painter *Constant Troyon (1810–1865), painter *Eugène André Oudiné (1810–1875), sculptor, engraver *Jules Dupré (1811–1889), painter *Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), painter *Boissard de Boisdenier (1813–1866), painter *Charles Jacque (1813–1894), painter *Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), painter *Thomas Couture (1815–1879), painter *Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815–1891), painter *Jacques-Eugene Feyen (1815–1908), painter *Charles Marville (1816–1879), painter, engraver, photographer *Antoine Chintreuil (1816–1873), painter *Alexandre Antigna, Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna (1817–1878), painter *François Bonvin (1817–1887), painter *Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878), painter *Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819–1891) (Dutch, worked in France), painter *Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), painter *Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), painter *Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876), painter *Nadar (photographer), Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820–1910), photographer *Charles Méryon (1821–1868), printmaker (etching) *Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), painter *Marie Adrien Persac (1823–?), painter, cartographer, architect, civil engineer, photographer *Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), painter *Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824–1887), sculptor and painter *Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), painter *Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (1824–1886), painter *Théodule Ribot (1824–1891), painter *Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), painter *Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898), painter *William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), painter *Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), painter *Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875), sculptor *Elie Delaunay (1828–1891), painter *Camille Alfred Pabst (1828–1898), painter *Achille Emperaire (1829–1898), painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne *Lucien Joulin (1842–1878), painter *Gaston de Laperriere (1848–1920), painter *Aimé Morot (1850–1915), painter and son in law of Jean-Léon Gérôme * (b. 1856), encaustic painting, encaustic painter

Nineteenth century (Impressionism to Fauvism)

Twentieth century (pre-World War II)

See also Post-Impressionism, Modern art,

, Cubism, Puteaux Group, Dada, Surrealism *Georges Rouault (1871–1958), painter *Léon Printemps (1871–1945), painter *František Kupka (1871–1957) (Czech, worked in France), painter *Henri Manguin, Henri-Charles Manguin (1874–1943), painter *Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (1875–1928), painter *Albert Marquet (1875–1947), painter *Jacques Villon (1875–1963), painter *Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957) (French, born in Romania), sculptor *Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958) (Flemish, worked in France), painter *Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876–1918), sculptor *Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), painter *Jeanne Baudot (1877–1957), painter *Jean Crotti (1878–1958) (Swiss), painter *Louis Marcoussis (Louis Markus) (1878–1941 or 1883–1941) (Polish, worked in France), painter *Francis Picabia (1879–1953), painter *Maurice Berty (1884-1946), illustrator *André Derain (1880–1954), painter *Joseph Hémard (1880–1961), illustrator *Albert Gleizes (1881–1952), painter, writer, theorist *Henri Le Fauconnier (1881–1946), painter *Jacob Macznik (1905–1945), painterUndzere Farpainikte Kinstler, Hersh Fenster, Imprimerie Abècé, Paris 1951 *Fernand Léger (1881–1955), painter *Georges Braque (1882–1963), painter *Auguste Chabaud (1882–1955), painter *Auguste Herbin (1882–1960), painter *Jean Metzinger (1883–1956), painter, engraver, poet, writer, theorist *Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter *Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955), painter *Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884–1974), painter *Jacques Maroger (1884–1962), painter *Robert Delaunay (1885–1941), painter *André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), painter *Raymond Wintz (1884–1956), painter *Pierre Brissaud (1885–1964), painter *Roger de La Fresnaye (1885–1925), painter *Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886–1943), French post-impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter of the Rouen School (l'École de Rouen) *Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1956), painter *Jean Arp, Jean (Hans) Arp (1886–1966), painter, sculptor *Marc Chagall (1887–1985) (born in Belarus), painter *Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), painter, sculptor, other media *Suzanne Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889–1963), painter *Anna Quinquaud (1890–1984), explorer and sculptor *Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967) (Russian born), sculptor *Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) (born in Lithuania), sculptor *Max Ernst (1891–1976) (German born), painter, sculptor *Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron (1891–1949), painter *Louis Favre (painter), Louis Favre (1892–1956), painter, creator of lithographs *Bram van Velde (1892–1981) (Dutch, worked in France), painter *Chaïm Soutine (1894–1943) (born in Belarus), painter *Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986), photographer *Jean Maurice Rothschild (1902–1998), furniture artist, interior designer, muralist *Gen Paul (1895–1975), painter, engraver *Albert Gilles (1895–1979), metal embosser, working with copper *Lucie Bouniol (1896–1988), sculptor, painter *André Masson (1896–1987), painter *René Iché (1897–1954), sculptor, painter *Jean Fautrier (1898–1964), painter *Georges Gimel (1898–1962), painter, engraver, sculptor *Henri Michaux (1899–1984) (Belgian), painter *Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary), photographer *Yves Tanguy (1900–1955) (naturalized American), painter

Twentieth century (post-World War II)

See also Modern art *René Pellos (1900–1998), cartoonist *Marcelle Bergerol (1900–1989), painter *Madeleine Schlumberger or Marie d’Ailleurs’ (1900–1980), artist, writer *Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) (Swiss, worked in Paris), sculptor, painter *Alfred-Georges Regner (1901–1987), painter, engraver *Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), painter *Charles Cobelle (1902–1994), painter *Hans Bellmer (1902–1975) (French, born in Germany), sculptor, photographer, engraver *Victor Brauner (1903–1966) (Romanian), painter *Hans Hartung (1904–1992) (born in Germany), painter *Jean Hélion (1904–1987), painter *Pierre Tal-Coat (1905–1985), painter *Elisa Breton (1906–2000), artist and writer, third wife of French writer and surrealist André Breton *Henri Cadiou (1906–1989), painter *Victor Vasarely (1908–1997) (born in Hungary), painter *Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, called "Balthus") (1908–2001) (Polish born), painter *Mario Tauzin (1909–1979) *Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq (1910–1973), illustrator *Jacques Nathan Garamond (1910–2001), graphic designer, illustrator, painter *Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910–2007) (born in Hungary), photographer *Othello Radou (1910–2006), painter *Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) (lived and died in America), sculptor, other media *Ervin Marton (1912–1968), photographer and artist *Wols (1913–1951) (born in Germany), painter *Pierre Wemaëre (1913–2010), painter *Etienne Martin (1913–1995), sculptor *Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955) (French, Russian origin), painter *Gerard Locardi (1915–1998), painter *François Lanzi (1916–1988), painter *Constantine Andreou (1917–2007) (Greek, Brazilian born), painter, sculptor *Marcel Mouly (1918–2008), painter, print maker *Bernard Cathelin (1919–2004), painter *Maurice Boitel (1919–2007), painter *Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), painter *Gabrielle Bellocq (1920–1999), painter *César Baldaccini (called "César") (1921–1998), sculptor *Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921–2021), painter *Georges Mathieu (1921–2012), painter *Francois Fiedler (1921–2001), painter *Simon Hantaï (1922–2018) (born in Hungary), painter *Paul Crotto (1922–2016), painter, sculptor and printmaker *François Ozenda (1923–1976), painter *Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) (Swiss), sculptor *Robert Filliou (1926–1987), other media *Raymond Hains (1926–2005), other media *Paul Rebeyrolle (1926–2005), painter *François Morellet (1926–2016), painter *Jacques de la Villeglé (1926–), other media (ripped posters) *Georges Badin (1927–2014), painter *Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), painter *Yves Klein (1928–1962), painter *Jacques Rivette (1928–2016), filmmaker *Arman (Armand Fernandez) (1928–2005), sculptor *Gérard Gasiorowski (1930–1986), painter, other media *Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930–2002), sculptor *Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) (Uruguay/French, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico), abstract realism *Jules Michel (1931–), painter, sculptor *Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019), artist, illustrator *Straub-Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub (1933–) and Straub-Huillet, Danièle Huillet (1936–2006), filmmakers *Lydia Corbett (1934–), artist *Jean-Pierre Yvaral (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

*Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927) *Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary) *Hippolyte Bayard (1807–1887) *Adeline Boutain (1862–1946), photographer, postcard publisher *Adolphe Braun (1812–1877) *Alexandra Boulat (1962–2007), photographer *Sophie Calle (1953–), other media, photographer *Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) *Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851) *Robert Doisneau (1912–1994) *Pierre Dubreuil (1872–1944), photographer *Philippe Echaroux (1983–) *Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910–), photographer (born in Hungary) *Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) *Ange Leccia (1952–), photographer, filmmaker *Jean-François Lepage (1960–), photographer *Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904) *Charles Marville (1816–1879) *Nadar (photographer), Nadar (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) *Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913–1951) (German, worked in France), photographer

References

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