This is a list of women artists who were born in

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or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

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Louise Abbéma Louise Abbéma (30 October 185329 July 1927) was a French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque. Biography Abbéma was born in Étampes, Essonne. She was born into a wealthy Parisian family, who were well connected in the local ...

(1853–1927), painter, sculptor, designer *

Georges Achille-Fould Georges Achille-Fould or George-Achille Fould-Stirbey (24 August 1868 – 24 August 1951) was a French painter. Achille-Fould was born in Asnières-sur-Seine as the daughter of the actress Josephine Wilhelmine Valérie Simonin, better known unde ...

(1868–1951), painter *

Françoise Adnet Françoise Adnet (30 June 1924 – 9 March 2014) was a French figurative painter born in Paris. She originally was a professional pianist, but gradually switched to painting by 1951. Her works, created over a period of 50 years, have been exh ...

(1924–2014), figurative painter * Hélène Agofroy (born 1953), contemporary artist *

Georgette Agutte Georgette Agutte (17 May 1867 – 5 September 1922) was a French painter. Biography She was born in Paris. Her father was Jean Georges Agutte. In 1893 she joined Gustave Moreau's classes as a free pupil, and retained his teachings on the freed ...

(1867–1922), painter *

Fanny Alaux Fanny Alaux nee Françoise Virginie Liégeois (April 17, 1797 – January 19, 1880) was a French artist known for her painting and drawing. Biography Alaux married the painter Jean Alaux, with whom she formed part of dynasty of Alaux painters. ...

(1797–1880), painter *

Lou Albert-Lasard Lou Albert-Lasard (1885 in Metz – July 1969 in Paris) was an Expressionist painter. She was born in 1885 in Metz (then part of Germany) to a Jewish banking family. From 1908 until 1914, she studied art in Munich, where she and her sister, ...

(1885–1969), painter *

Yvette Alde Yvette Alde (June 28, 1911 – October 30, 1967) was a French painter, lithographer, and Illustrator. She belongs to the School of Paris. Biography Alde studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where her teachers were :fr:Charles Pica ...

(1911–1967), painter * Jeanne Amen (1863–1923), painter. *

Beatrice Valentine Amrhein Béatrice Valentine Amrhein (born 1961 in Wassy) is a French artist. She lives and works in Arcueil. Biography Amrhein was trained as a painter at l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, at École nationale des beaux arts of N ...

(born 1961), 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 *

Virginie Ancelot Marguerite-Louise Virginie Chardon Ancelot (1792–1875) was a French painter, writer and playwright. Ancelot was born to a parliamentary family in Dijon, and was married to playwright Jacques-François Ancelot. From 1824 to 1866 Ancelot hoste ...

(1792–1875), painter, writer *

Hélène Marie Antigna Hélène Marie Antigna (8 July 1837 – 10 March 1918) was a French painter. Hélène-Marie Pettit was born at Melun), 8 July 1837. She was a pupil of her husband, Jean Pierre Antigna, and of Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacro ...

(1837–1918), painter *

Lydie Arickx Lydie Arickx (born 10 January 1954) is a French artist. Biography After studying at the School of Graphic Arts (FASE) under Roland Topor from 1974 to 1978, she gave her first solo exhibition in 1979 at the Jean Briance Gallery, with pastel and o ...

(born 1954), painter * Yolande Ardissone (born 1927), painter *

Geneviève Asse Geneviève Asse (Vannes, French Third Republic, France, 24 January 1923 – 11 August 2021) was a French painter. She died in August 2021 at the age of 98. She was awarded the Grand-Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour. Genevièv ...

(1923–2021), painter *

Virginie Augustin Virginie Augustin (March 11, 1973, Chatou) is a French comics book artist. She has also worked on animated features with Walt Disney Animation Studios and France 3. Biography After studying at Gobelins, Augustin worked with Walt Disney Animation ...

(born 1973), comics and animated features artist *

Pauline Auzou Pauline Auzou (24 March 1775 – 15 May 1835) was a French painter and art instructor, who exhibited at the Paris Salon and was commissioned to make paintings of Napoleon and his wife Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma. Personal life Jeanne-Mar ...

(1775–1835), painter

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Anna Barbara Bansi Anna Barbara Bansi (26 February 1777 – 27 May 1863) was a Swiss-born French painter. She is usually referred to as "Barbara" or "Babette". Biography Born in Fläsch, Bansi was the daughter of a reformed minister, Heinrich Bansi; her father ha ...

(1777–1863), painter * Jeanne Bardey (1872–1954), painter, sculptor * Estelle de Barescut, painter and lithographer *

Nina Barka Nina Barka (5 October 1908 – 1986), real name Marie Smirsky, was a prominent naive artist. She was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) of Ukrainian parents, but moved to France, where she became a French citizen. Her work had many Russia ...

(1908–1986), Russian-born French painter *

Françoise Basseporte Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, (28 April 1701 – 6 September 1780) was a French painter. From 1741 until her death, she served as the Royal Painter for the King's Garden and Cabinet (now the Jardin des Plantes), an unprecedented appointment for ...

(1701–1780), painter * Marie-Adélaïde Baubry-Vaillant (1829–after 1881), painter *

Amélie Beaury-Saurel Amélie Beaury-Saurel (1849 – May 30, 1924) was a French painter noted for portraiture. Life and career Born in Barcelona as Amélie Beaury, she added "Saurel" to her name in recognition of her mother's family who could trace their lineag ...

(1849–1924), painter *

Hélène de Beauvoir Henriette-Hélène de Beauvoir (6 June 1910 – 1 July 2001) was a French painter. She was the younger sister of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Her art was exhibited in Europe, Japan, and the US. She married Lionel de Roulet. When Hélène de B ...

(1910–2001), painter *

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, artist in pastels *

Denise Bellon Denise Bellon (20 September 1902 – 31 October 1999) was a French photographer associated with the Surrealism, Surrealist movement. Life She was born Denise Hulmann in Paris and studied psychology at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. She firs ...

(1902–1999), photographer associated with Surrealism *

Marie-Guillemine Benoist Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter. Biography Benoist was born in Paris, the daughter of a civil servant. Her tr ...

(1768–1826), painter *

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 * Augusta Bernard (1886–1946), fashion designer *

Solange Bertrand Solange Bertrand (20 March 1913 – 22 January 2011) was a French painter, sculptor, and engraver. Early life and education Born in Montigny-lès-Metz, Bertrand studied art for four years to the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, and then attend ...

(1913–2011), painter, sculptor, engraver *

Adélaïde Binart Adélaïde Binart (9 March 1769 – September 1832) was a French neoclassical painter-artist. Adélaïde Binart was born 9 March 1769, in Paris. She exhibited her works, mostly portraits, at the Salon of 1795–1817. In 1794, she marrie ...

(1769–1832), painter *

Lucienne Bisson Lucienne Bisson (6 July 1880 – 14 August 1939) was a French artist. Bisson was born in Paris. She was the illegitimate daughter of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919) and Frédérique Vallet-Bisson (1862 – 1948), a French painter who was l ...

(1880–1939), painter * Marie Blancour (fl. 1650–1699), painter *

Cathryn Boch Cathryn Boch (born 1968, Strasbourg), is a French award-winning artist who lives and works in Marseille. She won ''Drawing Now'' Prize in 2014. She obtained many residencies abroad and exhibited at key galleries and museums, including MAMCO Geneva ...

(born 1968), multi-media artist *

Jeanne Bonaparte Jeanne Bonaparte (15 September 1861 – 25 July 1910) was a great-niece of Napoleon I of France, and the only daughter of Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte by his wife Éléonore-Justine Ruflin. She was well known in French society as an artist and ...

(1861–1910), painter, sculptor *

Juliette Bonheur Juliette Peyrol Bonheur (1830–1891) was a French painter. She was known for her animal paintings. She is the sister of Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), Auguste Bonheur (1824–1884), and Isidore Bonheur (1827–1901).Galton, Francis. ...

(1830–1891), painter *

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 ...

(1822–1899), painter * Claire Bouilhac (born 1970), bande dessinée illustrator, scriptwriter, colorist *

Marie Bouliard Marie-Geneviève Bouliard (born Paris, 1763; died Saône-et-Loire, 1825) was a French artist who primarily painted portraits. She was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Joseph Duplessis. Her ''Aspasia'', a self-portrait, wa ...

(1763–1825), portrait 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 *

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), 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 *

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 *

Marthe Boyer-Breton Marthe Marie Louise Boyer-Breton (1879-1926) was a French artist. Biography Boyer-Breton née Breton was born in 1879 in Paris. Her teachers included Léon Bonnat, Louis Humbert, and Philippe Parrot. She married the author Jean Auguste Boyer. Bo ...

(1879–1926), painter *

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 (1847-1 ...

(1841–1916), painter * Elisa Breton (1906–2000), artist, writer *

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

(fl. 1770–1815), painter *

Henriette Browne Sophie de Bouteiller (June 16, 1829 – 1901), known by her pseudonym Henriette Browne, was a French Orientalist painter. Renowned internationally during her lifetime for her unconventional approach to Orientalism, Henriette Browne specialized ...

(1829–1901), orientalist painter *

Élise Bruyère Élise Bruyère (1776–1847) was a French painter who specialized in portraits and floral still lifes. Bruyère was the daughter of Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738–1836), a noted French writer, illustrator, and painter of French histor ...

(1776–1847), painter * Marie-Abraham Rosalbin de Buncey (1833–1891), painter * Berthe Burgkan (1855–1936), painter

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Marcelle Cahn Marcelle Cahn (March 1, 1895 - September 20, 1981) was a French painter and one of the members of Abstraction-Création. She was born in a Jewish family of Strasbourg, AlsaceJoséphine Calamatta (1817–1893), painter, engraver * Blanche-Augustine Camus (1884–1968), painter *

Yvonne Canu Yvonne Canu (1921–2008) was a French painter, considered part of Neo-Impressionism, who used the techniques of pointillism in her works. She was born to French parents in Meknes in Morocco in 1921. She began her studies at the École des Art ...

(1921–2008), painter *

Marie-Gabrielle Capet Marie-Gabrielle Capet (6 September 1761 – 1 November 1818) was a French Neoclassical painter. She was born in Lyon on 6 September 1761. Capet came from a modest background and her previous background and artistic training is unknown, but in 1 ...

(1761–1818), painter *

Henriette Cappelaere Henriette Jacotte Cappelaere was a French painter active from 1846 until 1859. Little is known of Cappelaere's life, although she warranted an entry in 's ''Dictionnaire Général des Artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du d ...

(fl. 1846–1859), painter *

Annie Cardin Annie Cardin (born September 30, 1938) is a French artist. Born in Paris, her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Asheville Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago i ...

(born 1938), painter *

Madeleine Carpentier Madeleine Carpentier (3 February 1865 – 13 September 1949) was a French painter. She was born in Paris and became a pupil of Adrien Bonnefoy and later studied under Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian.Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier (8 September 1886 – 7 November 1965) was a French painter and sculptor. She was born and died in Paris. She had an artistic independence. She studied in the École des Beaux Arts (1903–1909) and met Auguste ...

(1886–1965), painter, sculptor *

Renée Carpentier-Wintz Renée Carpentier-Wintz (1913–2003)Artnet was a French painter. She was the wife of French artist Raymond Wintz. Like her husband, she was famous for her beautiful Brittany landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of l ...

(1913–2003), painter *

Béatrice Casadesus Béatrice Casadesus (born 1 January 1942) is a French painter and sculptor, and professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research in ...

(born 1942), painter, educator * Madeleine Caudel (1879–1962), landscape painter * Madame Cavé (c.1809–1883), painter, teacher * Berthe Cazin (1872–1971), painter, potter, goldsmith *

Marie Cazin Marie Cazin, née Marie Clarisse Marguerite Guillet (19 September 1844, Paimbœuf – 18 March 1924, Équihen-Plage) was a French landscape painter, decorative artist and sculptor. Biography She studied in Paris with Juliette Peyrol-Bonh ...

(1845–1924), painter, sculptor * Camille Chantereine (1810–1847), painter * Angelique Charbonée (c.1740–after 1780), engraver *

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 ...

(1786–1824), painter *

Émilie Charmy Émilie Charmy (pronounced "shar-mee") (April 2, 1878 – June 7, 1974) was an artist in France's early avant-garde. She worked closely with Fauvism, Fauve artists like Henri Matisse, and was active in exhibiting her artworks in Paris, parti ...

(1878–1974), avant-garde painter *

Constance Marie Charpentier Constance Marie Charpentier (born 4 April 1767 Paris, – 3 August 1849 Paris) was a French painter. She specialized in genre scenes and portraits, mainly of children and women. She was also known as Constance Marie Blondelu. Life and career ...

(1767–1849), painter * Zoé-Laure de Chatillon (1826–1908), painter * Francine Charderon (1861–1928), portrait painter *

Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (née Gabiou; died 18 April 1832) was a French painter and the wife of the sculptor Antoine Denis Chaudet. After the death of her first husband in 1810, she married, secondly, in 1812, to Pierre-Arsène Denis Husson, a ...

(died 1832), painter * Germaine Chaumel (1895–1982), illustrator * Aimée Julie Cheron (1821–c.1840), miniature painter * Li Chevalier (born 1961), painter, installation artist * Geneviève Claisse (1935–2018), abstract painter *

Marie Jeanne Clemens Marie Jeanne Clemens (''née'' Crévoisier, 16 November 1755 – 20 March 1791) was a French-Danish painter, engraver and pastel artist. She was the daughter of the clock maker Claude Joseph Crévoisier and his wife Marie Thérèse (Blot) ...

(1755–1791), French-Danish engraver, pastel artist * Marie-Amélie Cogniet (1798–1869), painter *

Héloïse Colin Héloïse Suzanne Colin (1819–1873), also known as Héloïse Leloir, was a painter and fashion illustrator during the Second French Empire. Biography Héloïse Colin was the eldest daughter of painter Alexandre-Marie Colin and Marie Joseph ...

(1819–1873), painter, fashion illustrator * Uranie Alphonsine Colin-Libour (1833–1916), painter *

Jacqueline Comerre-Paton Jacqueline Comerre, née Paton (1 May 1859 – 1955) was a French painter and sculptor, and the wife of the painter Léon-François Comerre (1850-1916). Comerre-Paton was born in Paris. Her mother was Émilie-Thérèse Paton (1820 - 1887), kno ...

(1859–1955), painter * Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin (1830–1921), painter, writer * Louise Zoé Coste (1805–after 1861), painter * Lucie Cousturier (1876–1925), painter, writer *

Laure Coutan-Montorgueil Laure Coutan-Montorgueil (1855-1915) was a French sculptor. Biography Coutan-Montorgueil née Martin was born in 1855 in Dun-sur-Auron. She studied with Alfred Boucher. Coutan-Montorgueil exhibited her work in the Woman's Building at the 1893 Wo ...

(1855–1915), sculptor *

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 * Marguerite Crissay (1874–1945), painter, sculptor * Béatrice Cussol (born 1970), artist, writer

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* Jeanne Bernard Dabos (1765–1842), miniature painter *

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

(1821–1875), miniature painter *

Rébecca Dautremer Rébecca Dautremer (born 1971) is a French illustrator and children's literature author. Dautremer was born in Gap, Hautes-Alpes in 1971. She studied graphic design at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. She is married to au ...

(born 1971), illustrator *

Hermine David Hermine Lionette Cartan David (19 April 1886 in Paris – 1 December 1970 in Bry-sur-Marne) was a French painter. Early life and education Hermine David was born in Paris in 1886. She was born out of wedlock; her mother insisted that her bi ...

(1886–1970), painter *

Césarine Davin-Mirvault Césarine Henriette Flore Davin-Mirvault (June 3, 1773 – November 25, 1844) was a French artist and painter. She studied under Suvée, David and learned to paint miniatures from Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin. Biography Césarine Henriette Flo ...

(1773–1844), painter * Marie-Victoire Davril (1755–1820), painter *

Elsa Dax Elsa Dax (born 14 May 1972) is a French painter and a member of the Stuckists art movement.Milner, Frank ed. (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 58, National Museums Liverpool, . Major themes in her work are myth, legend and fairytale ...

(born 1972), painter * Iphigénie Decaux-Milet-Moreau (1778–1862), flower painter *

Herminie Déhérain Herminie Déhérain (born Herminie Lerminier; 1798–1839) was a French painter. Born in Abbeville, Déhérain was a pupil of Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot prior to her marriage to magistrate Alexandre Déhérain. The couple had a son, Pierre, who b ...

(1798–1839), painter *

Julie Delance-Feurgard Julie Delance-Feurgard (November 8, 1859 – January 11, 1892) was a French painter. She was known for her landscapes and genre paintings. Biography Delance-Feurgard was born on 8 November 1859 in Paris, France. She attended the Académie Julian. ...

(1859–1892), painter *

Sonia Delaunay Sonia Delaunay (13 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in Odessa (then part of Russian Empire), and formally trained in Russian Empire and Germany before moving to Fr ...

(1885–1979), Ukrainian-born French painter * Marguerite Delorme (1876–1946), painter *

Virginie Demont-Breton Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter. Biography Her father Jules Breton and her uncle Émile Breton were both well-known painters. Through her father she ...

(1859–1935), painter * Claudie Titty Dimbeng (born 1968), Ivorian-born abstract painter * Émilie Desjeux (1861–1957), painter *

Louise-Adéone Drölling Louise-Adéone Drölling, also known as Madame Joubert (29 May 1797 – 20 March 1834) was a French painter and draughtswoman. Both her father, Martin Drolling, and her older brother, Michel Martin Drolling, were celebrated artists in their day. ...

(1797–1836), painter *

Angèle Dubos Angèle Dubos (22 December 1844 − 26 November 1916) was a French painter from Normandy. Dubos was born Laure Constance Angèle Dubos in 1844 in L'Aigle in the north of France, and showed her works at the Paris Salon. Biography Born in 1844 ...

(1844–1916), painter *

Victoria Dubourg Victoria Dubourg or Victoria Fantin-Latour (1 December 1840 – 30 September 1926) was a French still life painter. Dubourg was born in Paris and trained with artist Fanny Chéron.Victoria Dubourg in the RKD There, she met the painter Henri Fant ...

(1840–1926), flower painter * Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889–1963), painter *

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), flower and fruit painter *

Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux (1761 – July 26, 1802) was a French painter and musician, born in Paris. She was the eldest daughter of Joseph Ducreux, with whom she also studied. She showed her works at the Louvre Salons in 1791, 1793, 1795, 1798, and ...

(1761–1802), painter, musician *

Clémentine-Hélène Dufau Clementine-Hélène Dufau (18 August 1869, Quinsac - 18 March 1937, Paris) was a French painter decorative artist, poster designer and illustrator. Biography Her father was an entrepreneur of Basque people, Basque ancestry who made a fortune ...

(1869–1937), painter *

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, painter * Marie-Adélaïde Duvieux (1761-1799), miniature painter *

Natalia Dumitresco Natalia Dumitresco (born Natalia Dumitrescu; 20 December 1915 in Bucharest, Romania – 3 July 1997 in Chars, France) was a French-Romanian abstract painter associated with the ''Réalités Nouvelles'' salon of Paris after the Second World ...

(1915–1997), Romanian-born French abstract painter * Thérèse-Marthe-Françoise Dupré (1877–1920), realist painter *

Pierrette-Madeleine-Cécile Durand Pierrette-Madeleine-Cécile Durand, later Gros (1745–1831) was a French painter, the mother of Antoine-Jean Gros. Born in Paris, Durand was the daughter of merchant Antoine-Sébastien Durand or Durant (1712–1787). She married the painter Jean ...

(1745–1831), painter

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* Diane Esmond (1910–1981), British-born French Post-Impressionist painter

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Nina Fagnani Nina Fagnani (1856–1928) was an American-born French painter of portrait miniatures. Fagnani was the daughter of Italian-born painter Giuseppe Fagnani, who had emigrated to the United States in the company of Sir Henry Bulwer when he came ...

(1856–1928), American-born French miniature painter *

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

(1812–1889), painter and lithographer * Nathalie Ferlut (born 1968), comic book illustrator, scriptwriter, colorist * Jeanne Fichel (1849–1906), painter *

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

(1822–1878), painter and children's writer *

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), pastellist, painter * Fanny Fleury (1848–1920), painter * Marie-Anne-Julie Forestier (1782–1843), painter *

Brigitte Lovisa Fouché Brigitte Lovisa Fouché (born 1958) is a French painter born in Dax (South of France). After graduating from the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art (ENSAAMA), Olivier de Serres in Paris, she worked for 15 years ...

(born 1958), painter *

Pauline Fourès Pauline Fourès (March 15, 1778 – March 18, 1869), born Pauline Bellisle, was a French painter and novelist in addition to being a mistress of Napoleon Bonaparte. Life Fourès was born in Pamiers on March 15, 1778 to Marguerite Brandon and He ...

(1778–1869), painter, novelist *

Consuelo Fould Consuelo Fould (22 November 1862 – 1927) was a French painter. Fould was born in Cologne as the daughter of the actress Josephine Wilhelmine Valérie Simonin, better known under her pseudonym Gustave Haller, and politician Gustave-Eugène Fou ...

(1862–1927), painter * Marie-Anne Fragonard (1745–1823), miniature painter *

Sophie Fremiet Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of ...

(1797–1867), painter * Charlotte Eustace Sophie de Fuligny-Damas (1741–1828), flower painter

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* Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou (1761–c.1811), painter *

Beya Gille Gacha Beya Gille Gacha (born 1990) is a sculptor. Her work is in the collections of the World Bank and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. Biography Gacha was born in Paris to a Cameroonian mother and French father. She studied at the Éc ...

(born 1990), sculptor *

Annick Gendron Annick Gendron was a French abstract painter, (1939 Châtin, Nièvre - 22 October 2008 Saint-Cloud). Art In the 1970s Gendron’s innovative way of using and manipulating industrial material and tools as plastic, glass, hydraulics press an ...

(1939–2008), abstract painter *

Marguerite Gérard Marguerite Gérard (28 January 1761 in Grasse – 18 May 1837 in Paris) .Note that contrary to all other sources, the given death date is 1 January 1832, not 18 May 1837. was a successful French painter and printmaker working in the Rococo style. ...

(1761–1837), painter, etcher *

Louise Germain Louise Germain (1874–1939), née Louise Richier was a French painter. Biography Although she was born in Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France, Louise Richier lived much of her childhood and adolescence in Algeria, returning to France by the time she ...

(1874–1939), painter *

Françoise Gilot Marie Françoise Gilot (born 26 November 1921) is a French painter, best known for her relationship with Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children. Gilot was already launched as an accomplished artist, notably in watercolours and ceramics, b ...

(born 1921), painter, writer *

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 * Paule Gobillard (1867–1946), painter *

Marie-Éléonore Godefroid Marie-Éléonore Godefroid (20 June 1778 in Paris – 1849), was a French painter, watercolorist, pastellist, and draughtswoman. Some of her major works include ''Portraits of the Children of Marshall Duke d'Enghien (1810), Portrait of Queen ...

(1778–1849), portrait painter *

Eva Gonzalès Eva Gonzalès (April 19, 1849 – May 6, 1883) was a French Impressionist painter. She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Berthe Morisot (1841-95), and Mar ...

(1849–1883), Impressionist painter *

Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy (1798–1869) was a French painter. She was a student of the painter Abel de Pujol (1787–1861), who had studied with Jacques-Louis David. In 1856, she married Pujol. Known for her genre and historical ...

(1798–1869), painter *

Anna-Geneviève Greuze Anna-Geneviève Greuze (sometimes Anne-Geneviève) (1762–1842) was a French painter. Born in Paris, Greuze was the daughter and pupil of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and lived with him until his death. She was known as a genre and portrait painter, ...

(1762–1842), painter * Henriette Gudin (1825–1892), marine painter * Anne Guéret (1760–1805, painter * Louise Catherine Guéret (1755–1851), painter *

Rosina Mantovani Gutti Rosina Mantovani Gutti was born in the year of 1851 and passed in 1943. Known as the Daughter of the Ferrara painter Alessandro Mantovani; Gutti entered into the same circles of the Nazarene (sect), Nazarene painter Ludovico Seitz. Rosina Mantova ...

(1851–1943), painter *

Maximilienne Guyon Maximilienne Guyon (1868–1903) was a French painter, water-colorist, etcher, and illustrator. Biography Guyon was born on 24 May 1868 in Paris. She studied with Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and Gustave Boulanger at the Académie ...

(1868–1903), painter

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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), Swedish-French painter *

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre scenes. A native of Paris, she began studies with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, a popular history painter and family friend ...

(1784–1845), genre painter *

Jeanne Hébuterne Jeanne Hébuterne (; 6 April 1898 – 26 January 1920) was a French painter and art model best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani. She took her own life the day after Modigliani died, and is now bu ...

(1898–1920), painter *

Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet (1815–1886) was a French lithographer and painter. She is remembered in particular for the lithographs she created for albums illustrating Bayonne and the Basque Country. As a painter, she exhibited in the Paris sal ...

(1815–1886), lithographer * Emma Herland (1856–1947), painter * Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit (1784–1862), painter *

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

(1925–1996), painter *

Marie-Anne Horthemels Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels (1682 – 24 March 1727) was a French engraver, wife of the King's engraver Nicolas-Henri Tardieu. Biography Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels was one of three daughters of the Dutch bookseller Daniel Horthemels (c. ...

(1682–1727), engraver *

Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, or Louise-Madeleine Hortemels, also called Magdeleine Horthemels (1686 – 2 October 1767), was a French engraver, the mother of Charles-Nicolas Cochin. She is also sometimes credited under her married name of Louis ...

(1686–1767), engraver * Marguerite J. A. Houdon (1771–1795), painter * Joséphine Houssaye (1840–1901), painter * Marie Huet (born 1859), painter *

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 *

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

(1771–1849), painter

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* Camille Cornelie Isbert (1825–1911), painter * Jeanne Itasse-Broquet (1867–1941), sculptor

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Marguerite Jacquelin Marguerite Jacquelin (1850s – 1 February 1941) was a French flower painter. Jacquelin was born in Paris and trained with the painters Louis-Auguste Auguin, Léon Bonnat, Maxime Lalanne, and Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury. She showed works at the ...

(1850s–1941), flower painter *

Nélie Jacquemart Cornélie Barbe Hyacinthe Jacquemart, known as Nélie (25 July 1841– 15 May 1912) was a French painter, art collector and patron of the arts. Biography She was born in Paris. Her parents came from Meurthe in 1835 so her father, Joseph, could ...

(1841–1912), painter, art collector * Jeanne Jacquemin (1863–1938), painter * Marie Jaffredo (born 1966), comics artist * Marie Victoire Jaquotot (1772–1855), painter *

Marine Joatton Marine Joatton (born 1972) is a contemporary French artist. Biography Marine Joatton was born in Paris in 1972. She received a diploma from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris when she was 20 years old, but then decided to pursue a ca ...

(born 1972), contemporary artist

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Bernadette Kanter Bernadette Kanter is a French sculptor born in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (Normandy) in 1950, her preferred material is bronze. Biography In 1974, after studying at the College of artistic careers of Paris (ICART), at the École nationale supér ...

(born 1950), sculptor

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Élodie La Villette Élodie La Villette, born Elodie Jacquier (April 12, 1848 Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) – 1917 Saint-Pierre-Quiberon), was a French painter. She is said to be one of the few women to have an artistic career when many routes were denied to them. Life ...

(1848–1917), painter *

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (née Labille; 11 April 1749 – 24 April 1803), also known as Adélaïde Labille-Guiard des Vertus, was a French miniaturist and portrait painter. She was an advocate for women to receive the same opportunities as men ...

(1749–1803), miniaturist and portrait painter *

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

(1805–1864), painter, printmaker * Oriane Lassus (born 1987), cartoonist, illustrator *

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, printmaker * Suzanne Laurens, sculptor * Andrée Lavieille (1887–1960), painter * Marie Adrien Lavieille (1852–1911), painter * Marie Ernestine Lavieille (1852–1937), painter *

Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux (27 March 1770The date 1770 is given by Astrid Reuter, page 109. – 23 July 1826) was a French painter. Like her sister, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, she studied (in 1787) under Jacques-Louis David, David. Her moth ...

(1779–1826), painter * Jeanne-Philiberte Ledoux (1767–1840), painter * Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux (died 1794), painter *

Madeleine Lemaire Madeleine Lemaire, ''née'' Coll (1845 – 8 April 1928), was a French painter who specialized in elegant genre works and flowers. Robert de Montesquiou said she was ''The Empress of the Roses''. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to ...

(1845–1928), painter *

Marie-Victoire Lemoine Marie-Victoire Lemoine (; 1754 – 2 December 1820) was a French classicist painter. Life Born in Paris, Marie-Victoire Lemoine was the eldest daughter of four sisters to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rousselle. Her sisters, Marie-Denise Ville ...

(1754–1820), painter *

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 *

Sonia Lewitska Lewitska Sopfia (Sonia) (Polish : Sofia Lewicka, Ukrainian: Cофія Пилипівна Левицька, French: Sonia Lewitska, russian: link=no, София (Соня) Филипповна Левицкая; born 9 March 1880 in Częstochowa, ...

(1880–1937), Ukrainian-born painter, printmaker, working in France * Sophie Lienard (died 1845), portrait miniaturist *

Marianne Loir Marianne Loir or Marie-Anne Loir (10 December 1705 – 11 May 1783) was a French painter who specialized in portraits. Biography Marianne Loir was born in Paris, 10 December 1705, daughter of the goldsmith Alexis II Loir and granddaughter of N ...

(1715–1769), portrait painter *

Henriette Lorimier Elisabeth Henriette Marthe Lorimier (7 August 1775, Paris – 1 April 1854) was a popular portraitist in Paris at the beginning of Romanticism. She lived with the French diplomat and philhellene writer Francois Pouqueville (1770–1838). Edu ...

(1775–1854), portrait painter *

Séraphine Louis Séraphine Louis, known as Séraphine de Senlis (Séraphine of Senlis; 3 September 1864 – 11 December 1942), was a French painter in the naïve style. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows an ...

(1864–1942), painter * Marie Lucas Robiquet (1858–1959), Orientalist painter

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Dora Maar Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. A romantic partner of Pablo Picasso, Maar was depicted in a number of Picasso's paintings, including his ''Portr ...

(1907–1997), photographer, poet, painter * Sophie Mallebranche (born 1976), artist, textile designer *

Julie Manet Julie Manet (14 November 1878 – 14 July 1966) was a French painter, model, diarist, and art collector. Biography Born in Paris, Manet was the daughter and only child of artist Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, younger brother of painter Édouar ...

(1878–1966), painter *

Maria Manton Maria Manton (1910–2003) was a French painter. Biography Maria Manton was born on 4 December 1910 in Blida, Algeria. During the German occupation of Alsace in 1870, her maternal grandparents came to settle in the outskirts of the city. A nati ...

(1910–2003), painter * Marie Antoinette Marcotte (1869–1929), painter *

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 w ...

(1866–1932), painter * Aude Massot (born 1983), comic book artist *

Lidiya Masterkova Lidiya Masterkova, also Lydia Masterkova, (russian: Лидия Мастеркова, 1927 in Moscow, USSR – 12 May 2008 in Saint Laurent, France) was a Soviet-born French painter, and part of the non-conformist Lianozovo Group along with Oscar ...

(1927–2008), Russian-born French painter * Catherine Matausch (born 1960), French journalist and painter *

Marie-Alexandrine Mathieu Marie-Alexandrine Mathieu (1838-1908) was a French artist known for her etchings. Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery of Australia and the Petit Palais The Petit Palais (; en, Small P ...

(1838–1908), artist known for her etchings * Caroline de Maupéou (1836–1915), painter *

Constance Mayer Marie-Françoise Constance Mayer La Martinière (9 March 1775 – 26 May 1821) was a French painter of portraits, Allegory, allegorical subjects, Portrait miniature, miniatures and genre works. She had "a brilliant but bitter career."Petteys, Ch ...

(1775–1821), painter *

Caroline Mesquita Caroline Mesquita (born 1989) is a French sculptor. Mesquita was born in Brest, in Finistère, France. She has used film, and particularly stop motion animation, as a component of her work. Her work is included in the collections of the Musée Nat ...

(born 1989), sculptor *

Victorine Meurent Victorine-Louise Meurent (also Meurant; February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a model for painters. Although she is best known as the favorite model of Édouard Manet, she was an artist in her own right who regularly exh ...

(1844–1927), painter * Angélique Mezzara (1793–1868), painter *

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

(born 1942), painter, architect *

Miss Van Miss Van (born 1973 in Toulouse, France), also known as Vanessa Alice, is a graffiti and street artist. Miss Van started painting on the street of Toulouse alongside Mademoiselle Kat at the age of 18. Today, she is now internationally known as a s ...

(born 1973), graffiti artist * Miss.Tic (born 1956), street wall artist, poet *

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), Baroque painter *

Blanche Hoschedé Monet Blanche Hoschedé Monet (10 November 1865 – 8 December 1947) was a French painter who was both the stepdaughter and the daughter-in-law of Claude Monet. Early life Ernest and Alice Hoschedé Blanche Hoschedé was born in Paris, the sec ...

(1865–1947), painter * Angélique Mongez (1775–1855), painter * Émilie-Sophie de Montullé (1756–1816), painter *

Mirka Mora Mirka Madeleine Mora (18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of contemporary art in Australia. Her media included drawing, painting, scu ...

(1928–2018), French-born Australian visual artist *

Blanche Moria Blanche Adèle Moria (1859–1926) was a French sculptor, medallist, educator and feminist. A designer of busts, medals and monuments, she exhibited in various salons from 1883 and received many commissions from the State. As a feminist, Moria fou ...

(1858–1927), sculptor * Eulalie Morin (1765–1837), portrait painter *

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), Impressionist painter * Tania Mouraud (born 1942), contemporary artist * Euphémie Muraton (1840–1914), painter

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* Afi Nayo (born 1969), painter *

Aurélie Nemours Aurélie Nemours (29 October 1910 – 27 January 2005) was a French Painting, painter who made geometric abstraction, abstract geometrical paintings and was highly influenced by De Stijl, or neoplasticism. Biography Aurélie Nemours was born ...

(1910–2005), abstract painter *

Marie Nicolas Marie Joséphine Nicolas (1845 – 1903) was a French painter. Nicolas was born in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne and was also known as Marie Nicholas or Marie Joséphine Drapier. She was a pupil of Levasseur and Charles Joshua Chaplin and is known f ...

(1845–1903), painter * Marie-Thérèse de Noireterre (1760–1823), miniaturist

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* Princess Marie of Orléans (1813–1839), sculptor, designer

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* Marie Parrocel (1743–1824), painter *

Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin (1666 in Paris, France – 1751 in Padua, Italy) was a French numismatist, writer and painter during the 17th century. She was the granddaughter of medical doctor and letter writer Guy Patin, daughter of medical do ...

(1666–1751), numismatist, writer, painter * Blanche Paymal-Amouroux (1860–1910), painter * Marie Petiet (1854–1893), painter * Laure Pigeon (1882–1965), Spiritualist artist *

Alice Prin Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed the ''Queen of Montparnasse'' and often known as ''Kiki de Montparnasse'', was a French model, chanteuse, actress, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age. She flourished ...

(1901–1953), painter, writer

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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

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Alice Rahon Alice Phillipot (Alice Rahon) (8 June 1904 – September 1987) was a List of French artists, French/List of Mexican artists, Mexican poet and artist whose work contributed to the beginning of Abstract art, abstract expression in Mexico. She began ...

(1904–1987), French-Mexican Surrealist artist, poet *

Marie Raymond Marie Raymond (1908–1988) was an abstract painter from the Tachisme movement in the 50s. Raymond was one of the most successful painters of the post-war abstract movement in Paris. Raymond's success story remains unknown as she was eclipsed ...

(1908–1988), abstract painter *

Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte or Real del Sarte (1853 – 1927) was a French painter and model. Real del Sarte was born in Paris as the daughter of François Delsarte, and attended the Académie Julian from 1874 where she was taught by Gustav ...

(1853–1927), painter *

Marie-Thérèse Reboul Marie-Thérèse Reboul (26 February 1735—4 January 1806), commonly called Madame Vien, was a French painter and engraver of natural history subjects, still lifes, and flowers. In 1757, Marie-Thérèse Reboul married the painter Joseph-Marie V ...

(1728–1805), still life painter * Sandrine Revel (born 1969), comics illustrator and author * Hortense Richard (1860–1939/1940), painter * Adèle Riché (1791–1878), painter *

Jeanne Rij-Rousseau Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (June 10, 1870 – October 22, 1956) was a French Cubist painter and an art theoretician. Her estate has been scattered throughout the world. Paintings are trafficked in N.Y., Chicago, London, and Paris. Some works are in Pari ...

(1870–1956), Cubist painter * Cendrine Robelin (born 1983), contemporary artist *

Juliette Roche Juliette Roche (1884–1980), also known as Juliette Roche Gleizes, was a French painter and writer who associated with members of the Cubism, Cubist and Dada movements. She was married to the artist Albert Gleizes. Life She was born in 1884 t ...

(1884–1980), Cubist painter *

Michèle Van de Roer Michèle Van de Roer (born September 12, 1956 in The Netherlands at Delft) is a contemporary French artist: a painter, designer, photographer, and engraver. Life Van de Roer was born in Delft. She studied formally at the École d'Arts de Valence ...

(born 1956), Dutch-born painter, photographer, engraver * Adèle Romany (1769–1846), miniature painter *

Jeanne Rongier Jeanne Rongier (November 27, 1852 – January 19, 1929) was a French painter. Rongier was born in Mâcon where she took lessons from Henri Senart.Jeanne Rongier in the RKD She later took lessons from Henri Joseph Harpignies, and Evariste Vital ...

(1852–1929), painter *

Charlotte de Rothschild Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild (6 May 1825 – 20 July 1899) was a French socialite, painter, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. Early years She was born in Paris, the daughter of Betty von Rothschild (1805� ...

(1825–1899), socialite, painter * Jeanne Royannez (1855–1932), sculptor

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Apollonie Sabatier Apollonie Sabatier (born Aglaé Joséphine Savatier; 8 April 1822 – 3 January 1890) was a French entertainer, artist's model and courtesan, who became a salon hostess and Bohemianism, bohemian muse to many of the French artists of 1850s Paris. ...

(1822–1890), courtesan, salon holder *

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

(1930–2002), sculptor, painter, filmmaker *

Eugénie Salanson Eugénie Alexandrine Marie Salanson (15 December 1836, Albert - 23 July 1912, Saint-Pair-sur-Mer) was a French painter in the Academic style. Biography Her father came from Ispagnac to Albert to serve as a tariff collector. The family later ...

(1836–1912), painter * Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont (1790–1871), painter, lithographer * Johanna Schipper (born 1967), comics artist * Félicie Schneider (1831–1888), portrait painter *

Marie-Ernestine Serret Marie-Ernestine Serret (1812–1884) was a French painter and pastellist. Born in Paris, 12 September 1812, she exhibited her work under her maiden name, Serret, although later she did so using her married name, Cabart. Marie-Ernestine was the ...

(1812–1884), painter, pastellist * Marguerite Sirvins (1890–1957), outsider textile artist * Élisabeth Sonrel (1874–1953), painter, illustrator *

Anne Strésor Anne Marie-Renée Strésor (1651—1713) was a French painter and member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Later in life she became a nun. Family Her father was the portraitist Henri Strésor. Work She was accepted into ...

(1651–1713), painter, nun * Élisabeth Swagers (c.1775–1837), painter

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* Élisabeth-Claire Tardieu (1731–1773), engraver *

Béatrice Tillier Béatrice Tillier (born 18 September 1972) is a French illustrator and ''bande dessinée'' (BD) cartoonist. In 2008, ''Le Bois des Vierges'' was shortlisted for the Prix Saint-Michel, Prix Saint-Michel's Best comic (French language). Biography Bé ...

(born 1972), illustrator, cartoonist *

Henriette Tirman Jeanne-Henriette Tirman (1875, in Charleville-Mézieres ( Ardenne) – 30 October 1952, in Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine)) was a French woman painter and printmaker. Biography Henriette Tirman was a Post-Impressionist painter, printmaker and illust ...

(1875–1952), painter, printmaker *

Sophie de Tott Sophie-Ernestine de Tott (1758 – 1848) was a French painter. Born in Constantinople, Tott was the daughter of François Baron de Tott, who served as a consul in that city, and was of Hungary, Hungarian descent. A ''chanoinesse'' of Sainte-Anne ...

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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 *

Frédérique Vallet-Bisson Frédérique Vallet-Bisson (29 April 1862 – 1949) was a French painter and pastellist. Vallet-Bisson was born in Amiens but moved to Paris, where she became a pupil of Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian.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 ...

(1744–1818), painter * Caroline de Valory (born 1790), painter, engraver * Angélique-Louise Verrier (1762–1805), painter *

Marie-Nicole Vestier Marie-Nicole Vestier (1767–1846) was a French painter. Biography A native of Paris, Vestier was the daughter of painter Antoine Vestier. Known as a portraitist, in 1789 she married miniature painter François Dumont.Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (13 June 1908 – 6 March 1992) was a Portuguese abstract painter. She was considered a leading member of the European abstract expressionism movement known as Art Informel. Her works feature complex interiors and ...

(1908–1992), Portuguese-French abstract painter *

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 *

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

(1774–1821), portrait painter *

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Henriette Vincent Henriette Vincent (1786–1834) was an early 19th-century botanical painter at the French court. Early life Henriette Antoinette Rideau du Sal was born in Brest, France, in May 1786. Her father, Marcel-Henry Rideau du Sal, was a naval chief com ...

(1786–1834), botanical painter * Stéphanie de Virieu (1785–1873), painter, sculptor

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* Hermine Waterneau (1862–1916), painter *

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 ...

(1855–1934), sculptor * Sabine Weiss (1924–2021), photographer

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* Jenny Zillhardt (1857–1939), painter {{Lists of women artists by nationality - French women artists, List of artists, List of French

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