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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Middle Ages

Gislebertus 300px, ''Last Judgment'' by Gislebertus in the west tympanum at the Autun Cathedral Gislebertus of Autun (also ''Giselbertus'' or ''Ghiselbertus''; ), was a French Romanesque sculptor, whose decoration (about 1120–35) of the Cathedral of S ...

(12th century), sculptor *

Pierre de Montreuil Pierre de Montreuil (; died 17 March 1267) was a French architect. The name formerly given to him by architectural historians, Peter of Montereau (in French, Pierre de Montereau), is a misnomer. It was based on his tombstone inscription ''Muster ...

(–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. Documented ...

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

Anastasia Anastasia (from ) is a feminine given name of Greek and Slavic origin, derived from the Greek word (), meaning "resurrection". It is a popular name in Eastern Europe. Origin The name Anastasia originated during the Early Christianity, early d ...

(fl. ), 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

* Jacques Morel (–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 ...

(), painter, miniatures *

Henri Bellechose Henri Bellechose (''floruit, fl.'' 1415; died before 28 January 1445) was a painter from the Netherlands, South Netherlands. He was one of the most significant Gothic art#Gothic artists, artists at the beginning of panel painting in Northern Europe ...

(Flemish born) (active 1415–1440), painter *

Simon Marmion Simon Marmion ( – 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 of ...

(–1489), illuminations *

Jean Fouquet Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (; – 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 the ...

(1420–1481), painter, illuminations *

Jean Colombe Jean Colombe (; c. 1430 – c. 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 his wife Guillemette and thus the ...

(1430–1493), illuminations *

Michel Colombe Michel Colombe () was a French sculptor whose work bridged the late Gothic and Renaissance styles. Born in Bourges into a family of artisans, he was active in Tours. Colombe's surviving works all date from his old age. He created the ''gisant'' ...

(), sculptor *

Nicolas Froment Nicolas Froment () was a French painter of the Early Renaissance. Froment is one of the most notable representatives of the Second School of Avignon (''École d'Avignon''), a group of artists at the court of the Popes in Avignon, who were loca ...

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Jean Perréal Jean Perréal (-), sometimes called Peréal, Johannes Parisienus or Jean De Paris, was a successful portraitist for French Royalty in the first half of the 16th century, as well as an architect, sculptor and limner of illuminated manuscripts. He ...

(), 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. Following from the work of Jean de la Huerta beginning in 1443, Le Moitur ...

(active in the 1460s), sculptor *

Jean Clouet Jean (or Janet or Jehannot) Clouet (c. 1485 – 1540/1) was a Painting, painter, draughtsman and Portrait miniature, miniaturist from the Burgundian Netherlands whose known active work period took place in France. He was court painter to French ki ...

(–1541) (Flemish born), painter, miniatures *

Jean Duvet Jean Duvet (1485 – after 1562) was a French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver, now best known for his engravings. He was the first significant French printmaking, printmaker. He produced about seventy-three known plates, that convey a hig ...

(), engraver *

Josse Lieferinxe Josse Lieferinxe () was a South Netherlandish painter, formerly known by the pseudonym the Master of St. Sebastian. Originating in the diocese of Cambrai in Hainaut, then part of the territories ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy, 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 a ...

(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 ...

(1500–1593), painter, engraver, sculptor *

Ligier Richier Ligier Richier (1567) was a French sculptor active in Saint-Mihiel in Northeastern France. Richier primarily worked in the churches of his native Saint-Mihiel. Starting in 1530, he enjoyed the patronage of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, who commiss ...

(1500–1567), sculptor *

Pierre Quesnel Pierre Quesnel () was a 16th-century French artist who worked in Scotland, before returning to Paris with his family after the death of James V of Scotland. Career Pierre Quesnel worked in Scotland for Mary of Guise and James V. He is listed as ...

(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 Pierre Bontemps (c. 1505–1568) was a French sculptor known for his funeral monuments; he was, with Germain Pilon, one of the pre-eminent sculptors of the French Renaissance. He executed most of the bas-reliefs on the tomb of King Francis I ...

(1505/1510–after 1562), sculptor *

Jean Goujon Jean Goujon ()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 sculptor and architect. Bio ...

(), sculptor *

Bernard Palissy Bernard Palissy (; c. 1510c. 1589) was a Huguenot, French Huguenot pottery, potter, Hydraulics, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rus ...

(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 ...

(–1585), architectural plans *

Jean Juste Juste or Giusti is the name conventionally applied to a family of Italian sculptors. Their real name was Betti, originally from the area of San Martino a Mensola, a church in Florence. Giusto Betti, whose name was afterwards given to the whol ...

(active 1515–1530), sculptor *

François Clouet François Clouet ( – 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 Tou ...

(–1572) (son of Jean Clouet), painter *

Pierre Lescot Pierre Lescot ( – 10 September 1578) was a French architect of the French Renaissance period. He is known for designing the Fontaine des Innocents and the Lescot wing of the Louvre in Paris. Lescot contributed to the incorporation of classical ...

(–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 wor ...

(–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 Germain Pilon (c. 1525 – 3 February 1590)Connat & Colombier 1951; Thirion 1996. was a French Renaissance sculptor. He is, along with Jean Goujon, one of the most important sculptors of the French Renaissance. Best known as the creator of ma ...

(c.1535–1590), sculptor * Barthélemy Prieur (c.1536–1616), sculptor *

Étienne Dumonstier Étienne Dumonstier, also Nicholas Denizot, (1540–1603) was a French The Renaissance, Renaissance portrait painter. Not much is known about Dumonstier's life except through his works. He primarily painted portraits for the French Royal family ...

(1540–1603), painter *

Ambroise Dubois Ambroise Dubois, originally Ambrosius Bosschaert (c.1543, Antwerp - 1614/15, Fontainebleau) was a French painter, associated with the School of Fontainebleau, Second School of Fontainebleau. Biography There is some uncertainty about when he ar ...

(c.1542–1614) (Flemish born), painter *

Pierre Dumonstier I Pierre Dumonstier I ( 1545 – 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 (died 1 ...

(c.1545–c.1610), painter * Thomas de Leu (1560–1612), engraver *

Toussaint Dubreuil Toussaint Dubreuil (1561, Paris - 22 November 1602, Paris) was a French painter, associated with the second School of Fontainebleau. Biography His father, also named Toussaint, was a saddler, and he maintained a passion for horses throughout ...

(c.1561–1602), painter * Léonard Gaultier (c.1561-1641), engraver *

Martin Fréminet Martin Fréminet (24 September 1567 – 18 June 1619) was a French historical painter. Fréminet was born and died in Paris. According to thRKDhe 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 or Frans Pourbus (II) (Antwerp, 1569 – Paris, 1622)Frans Pourbus (II)
at the 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 Nor ...

(1575–1616) (in Lorraine), engraver *

Jean Decourt Jean de Court used painted Limoges enamel and oil painting, and served as official portrait painter to the monarchs of Scotland and France. The de Court dynasty of enamel painters ran a workshop making Limoges enamel over several generations in ...

(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 ...

(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 mathem ...

(1584–1640),

lineographer Lineography is the art of drawing without lifting the pen, pencil, or paintbrush that is being used. The practice originated in France in the seventeenth century. It fell into disuse by the early nineteenth century. Lineography experienced a res ...

Seventeenth century

See also

French Baroque and Classicism 17th-century French art is generally referred to as Baroque, but from the mid- to late 17th century, the style of French art shows a classical adherence to certain rules of proportion and sobriety uncharacteristic of the Baroque as it was prac ...

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 Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a Catholic Church in France, French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religi ...

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

Louis XIV of France LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...

Palace of Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines, Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, Île-de-France region in Franc ...

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 aesthe ...

Philippe Millereau Philippe Millereau (c. 1570–1610) was a French Mannerism, Mannerist painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, active during the reign of Henry IV of France, Henri IV, and assimilated to the Second School of Fontainebleau, of which he ...

(1570–1610), painter *

Daniel Dumonstier Daniel Dumonstier (14 May 1574 – 22 June 1646) was a French artist, nicknamed as ''the best artist in crayons in Europe'' of his time but now little known. His father Cosme Dumonstier (Daniel was born illegitimate but was later legitimised) ...

(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 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 between ca. 1612 ...

(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 drawing, draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine. He is an important person in the development of the old master print. He made more than 1,400 etchings that chronicled the life of his peri ...

(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 people, 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 ...

(1593–1670), painter, printmaker, illustrator *

Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a 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 mythologic ...

(1594–1665), painter *

Antoine Le Nain The three Le Nain brothers were Painting, painters in 17th-century Kingdom of France, 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, portra ...

(before 1600–?), painter *

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

(after 1600–?), painter * Nicolas Lagneau (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 watercolor painting, watercolour.Claude Gelée, called Claude Lorrain (1600–1682), painter *

Philippe de Champaigne Philippe de Champaigne (; 26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Duchy of Brabant, Brabant-born French people, French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French art, French school. He was a founding member of the Académie royale de pein ...

(1602–1674) * Pierre-Antoine Lemoine (1605–1665), still-life painter *

Laurent de La Hyre Laurent de La Hyre (; 27 February 1606 – 28 December 1656) was a French Baroque painting, Baroque Painting, painter, born in Paris. He was a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism. Life La Hyre was greatly influence ...

(1606–1565), painter *

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

(1607–c.1677), painter *

Louise Moillon Louise Moillon (c. 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 En ...

(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 a ...

(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 André Le Nôtre (; 12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He was the landscape architect who designed Gardens ...

(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 neocl ...

(1616–1655), painter *

Sébastien Bourdon Sébastien Bourdon (; 2 February 16168 May 1671) was a French painter and engraver. His ''chef d'œuvre'' is ''The Crucifixion of St. Peter'' made for the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, Notre Dame. Biography Bourdon was born in Montpellie ...

(1616–1671), painter *

Charles Le Brun Charles Le Brun (; baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French Painting, painter, Physiognomy, physiognomist, Aesthetics, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. He served as a court painter to Louis XIV, ...

(1619–1690), painter, other media *

Pierre Paul Puget Pierre Paul Puget (16 October 1620 (or 31 October 1622) – 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 academ ...

(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 (; 17 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. Biogra ...

(1628–1715), sculptor * Catherine Duchemin (1630–1698), painter *

Claude Lefèbvre Claude Lefèbvre (12 September 1632 (baptised) - 25 April 1675) was a French people, French painting, painter and engraver.Brême 1996, p. 65. Early life and training Lefèbvre was born at Fontainebleau, the son of the painter Jean Lefèbvre ( ...

(1633–1675), painter and engraver * Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636–1697), engraver *

Charles de la Fosse Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning wa ...

(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 Coysev ...

(1640–1720), sculptor * Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (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 becam ...

(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 ...

(1644–1717), painter *

François de Troy François de Troy (9 January 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 life O ...

(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 Marie Blancour (active 1650 – 1699), was a French painter. She is known for only one signed work, a vase of flowers, that today is in the collection of the National Gallery, London.Marie Courtois (c.1655–1703), miniature painter *

Nicolas de Largillière Nicolas de Largillière (; baptised 10 October 1656 – 20 March 1746) was a French people, French painter and Drawing, draughtsman. Biography Early life Largillière was baptised at the in Paris on 10 October 1656. The son of a merchant hatm ...

(1656–1746), painter *

Nicolas Coustou Nicolas Coustou (; 9 January 1658 – 1 May 1733) was a French sculpture, 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 Coysev ...

(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 Rigau ...

(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 * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1 ...

(1661–1743), painter

Eighteenth century

See also

Louis XV of France Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defi ...

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, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpte ...

Louis XVI of France Louis XVI (Louis-Auguste; ; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765), Louis, Dauphin of France (son and heir- ...

Neoclassicism Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative arts, decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiq ...

Enlightenment Enlightenment or enlighten may refer to: Age of Enlightenment * Age of Enlightenment, period in Western intellectual history from the late 17th to late 18th century, centered in France but also encompassing (alphabetically by country or culture): ...

Gobelins Gobelins may refer to: * Gobelin, the name of family of dyers, established from the 15th century * Gobelins Manufactory, a historic tapestry factory in Paris, France * The 13th arrondissement of Paris, an administrative district containing the Go ...

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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 along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during th ...

Alexis Simon Belle Alexis Simon Belle (12 January 1674 – 21 November 1734) was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility. As a portrait artist, Belle's style followed that of his master François de Troy, Hyacinthe R ...

(1674–1734) *

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 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 *

Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau (, , ; baptised 10 October 1684died 18 July 1721) Alsavailablevia Oxford Art Online (subscription needed). was a French Painting, painter and Drawing, draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour ...

(1684–1721), painter *

Jean-Baptiste van Loo Jean-Baptiste van Loo (14 January 1684 – 19 December 1745) was a French people, 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 Jac ...

(1684–1745), painter *

Jean-Marc Nattier Jean-Marc Nattier (; 17 March 1685 – 7 November 1766) was a French Painting, 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 hi ...

(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-Cha ...

(1686–1755), painter *

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 Louise ...

(1686–1767), engraver *

François Lemoyne François Lemoyne or François Le Moine (; 1688 – 4 June 1737) was a French rococo painter. He was a winner of the Prix de Rome, professor of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, and '' Premier peintre du Roi'' to Louis XV. He wa ...

(1688–1737), painter *

Nicolas Lancret Nicolas Lancret (; 22 January 1690 – 14 September 1743) was a List of French artists, French painter. Born in Paris, he was a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society during the Régence, regen ...

(1690–1743), painter * Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694–1752), painter, art commentator, and

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

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 Bouche ...

(1700–1777), painter *

Louis-François Roubiliac Louis-François Roubiliac (or Roubilliac, or Roubillac) (31 August 1702 – 11 January 1762) was a French sculpture, sculptor who worked in England. One of the four most prominent sculptors in London working in the rococo style, he was described ...

(1702–1762), sculptor *

Jean-Étienne Liotard Jean-Étienne Liotard () or Giovanni Stefano Liotard (22 December 1702 – 12 June 1789) was a Genevan painter, pastellist, printmaker, art theorist and art dealer. Born in the Republic of Geneva as the son of exiled French Huguenots, he spent mo ...

(1702–1789), painter *

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

(1703–1770), painter, engraver *

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

(1704–1788), painter *

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (; 15 February 1704 – 25 May 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 exp ...

(1704–1778), painter, sculptor *

Charles-André van Loo Carle or Charles-André van Loo (; 15 February 1705 – 15 July 1765) was a French painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a s ...

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

Louis-Michel van Loo Louis-Michel van Loo (2 March 1707 – 20 March 1771) was a French people, 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 d ...

(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 whose work was influenced by both baroque and neo-classical trends. Life Pigalle was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to ob ...

(1714–1785), sculptor *

Claude Joseph Vernet Claude-Joseph Vernet (; 14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Carle 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 (1689–1753 ...

(1714–1789), painter *

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (; c. 1716 – 19 November 1783) was a French art, French Rococo painting, Rococo painter and draughtsman, best known for his portrait pastels. Biography Perronneau was born in Paris. His exact date of birth is un ...

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

Charles-Louis Clérisseau Charles-Louis Clérisseau (28 August 1721 – 9 January 1820) was a French architect, draughtsman, antiquary, and artist who became a leading authority on ancient Roman architecture and Roman ruins in Italy and France. With his influence extending ...

(1721–1820), draughtsman, watercolorist, painter in gouache *

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. P ...

(1716–1809), painter * Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (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. Early life Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy. He is generally said to have formed his own ...

(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. His clientele included the French royal family and nobility, foreign aristocracy, f ...

(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 art ...

(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 number ...

(1734–1772), painter *

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

(1735–1802), painter *

Étienne de La Vallée Poussin Étienne, a French analog of Stephen or Steven, is a masculine given name. An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne. Étienne, Etienne, Ettiene or Ettienne may refer to: People Artists and entertainers * ...

(1735–1802), French

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

painter and creator of interior decorative schemes *

Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe Louis Albert Guislain, baron 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- ...

(1761–1824), painter *

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (16 June 1735 – 15 September 1784) was a 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 famous in hi ...

(1735–1784), painter * Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre (1739–c.1800), painter * A. Duval, artist and engraver active 1769-1801 *

Jean Antoine Houdon Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon (; 20 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment. Houdon's subjects i ...

(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 ...

(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 (1750–1817), portrait artist * Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (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 ...

(1752–1794), painter * Antoine Berjon (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 ...

(1754–1829) *

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (; ; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply as Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19t ...

(1755–1842), painter * Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (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 human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

* Pierre Prudhon (1758–1823), painter

Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism)

Nineteenth century (Impressionism to Fauvism)

See also

Modern art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradit ...

Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction a ...

Les Nabis The Nabis (, ) were a group of young French artists active in Paris from 1888 until 1900, who played a large part in the transition from Impressionism and academic art to abstract art, symbolism and the other early movements of modernism. The me ...

Fauvism Fauvism ( ) is a style of painting and an art movement that emerged in France at the beginning of the 20th century. It was the style of (, ''the wild beasts''), a group of modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong col ...

Symbolist painters Symbolism or symbolist may refer to: *Symbol, any object or sign that represents an idea Arts *Artistic symbol, an element of a literary, visual, or other work of art that represents an idea ** Color symbolism, the use of colors within various c ...

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

Primitivism In the arts of the Western world, Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that means to recreate the experience of ''the primitive'' time, place, and person, either by emulation or by re-creation. In Western philosophy, Primitivism propo ...

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

(1830–1903), painter *

Étienne-Jules Marey Étienne-Jules Marey (; 5 March 1830, Beaune, Côte-d'Or – 15 May 1904, Paris) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer. His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinema ...

(1830–1904), photographer *

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

(1832–1883), painter *

Gustave Doré Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( , , ; 6January 1832 – 23January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrati ...

(1832–1883), engraver *

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

(1833–1902) artist and raconteur *

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

(1834–1917), painter, sculptor *

Pierre Mallet Pierre Mallet (1836–1898) was a French artist known for painted designs on ceramic ware, who mainly worked in England. Life Mallet was born in 1836 in at Jussey in Haute-Saône, France. He was trained in etching. He married and had two daughte ...

(1836–1898), painter of ceramics *

Henri Fantin-Latour Henri Fantin-Latour (; 14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. Early life Born in Grenoble, Isère, Ignace Henri Jean Th� ...

(1836–1904), painter *

Jules Chéret Jules Chéret (31 May 1836 – 23 September 1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of ''Belle Époque'' poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster. Early life and career Born in Paris to a poor bu ...

(1836–1932), painter, other media *

(1839–1906), painter *

François Salle François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 16 ...

(1839–1899) *

Odilon Redon Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; ; 20 April 18406 July 1916) was a French Symbolist painting, Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, Redon worked almost exc ...

(1840–1916), painter, draftsman,

er *

Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (; ; 12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a u ...

(1840–1917), sculptor *

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

(1840–1926), painter; a founder of French Impressionist painting *

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...

(1841–1919), painter *

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

(1841–1870), painter *

Berthe Morisot Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; 14 January 1841 – 2 March 1895) was a French painter, printmaker 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 ...

(1841–1895), painter *

Marie Bracquemond Marie Anne Caroline Bracquemond (; Quivoron; 1 December 1840 – 17 January 1916) was a French Impressionism, Impressionist artist. She was one of four notable women in the Impressionist movement, along with Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and Eva ...

(1841–1916), painter * Fernand Pelez (1843–1913), painter * Alexander Louis Leloir (1843–1884), painter *

Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910)
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Gug ...

("Le Douanier Rousseau") (1844–1910), painter *

Jean Antonin Mercié Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jea ...

(1845–1916), sculptor *

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (also known as Benjamin-Constant), born Jean-Joseph Constant (10 June 1845 – 26 May 1902), was a French painter and etcher best known for his Oriental subjects and portraits. Biography Benjamin-Constant was ...

(1845–1902), painter *

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

(1848–1894), painter *

Henri Biva Henri Biva (23 January 1848 – 2 February 1929) was a French artist, known for his Landscape art, landscape paintings and still lifes. He focused primarily on the western suburbs of Paris, painting outdoors in the en plein air, plein-air tra ...

(1848–1929), painter *

Jules Bastien-Lepage Jules Bastien-Lepage (1 November 1848 – 10 December 1884) was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of naturalism, an artistic style that grew out of the Realist movement and paved the way for the development of impressioni ...

(1848–1884), painter *

Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influ ...

(1848–1903), painter, sculptor *

Henry Lerolle Henry Lerolle (3 October 1848 – 22 April 1929) was a French painter, art collector and patron, born in Paris. He studied at Académie Suisse and in the studio of Louis Lamothe. His work was exhibited at the Salon (Paris), Paris Salon in 1868, ...

(1848–1929), painter *

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

(1849–1906), painter *

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse Pierre-Gérard Carrier-Belleuse (28 January 1851 in Paris – 29 January 1932 in Paris) was a French painter. Biography His first studies were with his father, the sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. Later he studied with Alexandre Ca ...

(1851–1932), painter *

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks ...

(1853–1890) (Dutch, worked in France), painter *

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

(1854–1926), painter *

Emilie Jenny Weyl Emilie Jenny Weyl, (18551934) 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 in Lure ...

(1855–1934), sculptor * Édouard Bisson (1856–1939), painter *Henry-Edmond Cross (1856–1910), painter *

Henry Moret Henry Moret (; 12 December 1856 – 5 May 1913) was a French Impressionist painter. He was one of the artists who associated with Paul Gauguin at Pont-Aven in Brittany. He is best known for his involvement in the Pont-Aven artist colony and his r ...

(1856–1913), painter *

Eugène Atget Eugène Atget (; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French ''flâneur'' and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to mod ...

(Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927), photographer *

Mathurin Janssaud Marthurin Janssaud (1857 – 1940) was a French painter. Career Janssaud was born in Manosque. Little is known of his early life, other than the fact that he left his home province before the onset of World War I. Like many artists of the day ...

(1857–1940), painter *

Marie Bashkirtseff Marie Bashkirtseff, born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva (; – 31 October 1884), was an émigré artist who was born into a noble family on their estate near the city of Poltava. She lived and worked in Paris, and died at the age of 25. L ...

(1858–1884), painter and sculptor *

Georges-Pierre Seurat Georges Pierre Seurat ( , ; ; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough ...

(1859–1891), painter *

Antoine Bourdelle Antoine Bourdelle (; 30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important ...

(1861–1929), sculptor *

Aristide Maillol Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (; December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaking, printmaker.Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette . "Maillol, Aristide". ''Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online''. Oxford ...

(1861–1944), sculptor * Louis Vivin (1861–1936), painter *

Antonio de la Gandara Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language–speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular m ...

(1861–1917), painter *

Gaston Bussière Gaston Bussière (April 24, 1862, in Cuisery – October 29, 1928 or 1929, in Saulieu) was a French Symbolist painter and illustrator. Biography Bussière studied at l'Académie des Beaux-Arts in Lyon before entering the école des beaux-ar ...

(1862–1929),

movement painter and illustrator *

Ernest de Chamaillard Henri Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard, usually known as Ernest de Chamaillard, (9 December 1862, Gourlizon – 1931, Eaubonne) was a French artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven. Biography The son of ...

(1862–1931), painter * Henri Delavallée (1862–1943), painter *

Paul Signac Paul Victor Jules Signac ( , ; 11 November 1863 – 15 August 1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, with Georges Seurat, helped develop the artistic technique Pointillism. Biography Paul-Victor-Jules Signac was born in Paris on ...

(1863–1935), painter *

Camille Bouvagne Camille Bouvagne (born Jean-Baptiste Camille Bouvagne) (1864–1936) was a French painter from Lyon, France. A member of the Lyon School (L'École de Lyon or École lyonnaise), Bouvagne exhibited regularly at the Le Salon in Lyon (Salon de la So ...

(1864–1936), painter *

René Georges Hermann-Paul René Georges Hermann-Paul (27 December 1864 – 23 June 1940) was a French artist. He was born in Paris and died in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He was a well-known illustrator whose work appeared in numerous newspapers and periodicals. His fine a ...

(1864–1940), graphic artist, illustrator, painter * William Didier-Pouget (1864–1959), painter * Henri Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), painter *

Paul Sérusier Paul Sérusier (; 9 November 1864 – 7 October 1927) was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabis movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism. Education Sérusier was born in Paris. He studie ...

(1864–1927), painter *

Paul Ranson Paul-Élie Ranson (; 29 March 1861 – 20 February 1909) was a French painter and writer associated with Les Nabis. Biography He was born in Limoges. His mother died in childbirth, so he was raised and educated by his grandparents and his ...

(1864–1909), painter * Seraphine Louis (1864–1942), painter * Henri Jourdain (1864–1931), painter, prints or lithographs of landscapes usually by the water * Albert Aurier (1865–1892), poet,

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and painter devoted to

Suzanne Valadon Suzanne Valadon (; 23 September 1865 – 7 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 . She was also the ...

(1865–1938), painter *

Félix Vallotton Félix Édouard Vallotton (; December 28, 1865December 29, 1925) was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as '. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He painted portra ...

(1865–1925) (Swiss, worked in France), painter, engraver *

Jacqueline Marval Jacqueline Marval was the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet (19 October 1866 – 28 May 1932), who was a French painter, lithographer and sculptor. Early life Vallet was born in Quaix-en-Chartreuse into a family of school teachers. She was ...

(1866–1932), the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet, French painter *

Pierre Bonnard Pierre Bonnard (; 3 October 186723 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. A founding member of the Post-Impressionist gr ...

(1867–1947), painter * Angèle Delasalle (1867–1941, painter, engraver *

Paule Gobillard Paule Gobillard (3 December 1867 – 27 February 1946) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter who was heavily influenced by the Impressionism, Impressionists. She is the niece of Berthe Morisot and Eugène ...

(1867–1946), painter * Jeanne Itasse-Broquet (1867–1941), sculptor *

Ker-Xavier Roussel Ker-Xavier Roussel (10 December 1867 – 6 June 1944) was a French painter associated with Les Nabis. Biography Born François Xavier Roussel in Lorry-lès-Metz, Moselle in 1867, at age fifteen he studied at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris; along ...

(1867–1944), painter *

Hector Guimard Hector Guimard (, 10 March 1867 – 20 May 1942) was a French architect and designer, and a prominent figure of the Art Nouveau style. He achieved early fame with his design for the Castel Beranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building i ...

(1867–1942), architect and decorator *

Édouard Vuillard Jean-Édouard Vuillard (; 11 November 186821 June 1940) was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas ...

(1868–1940), painter * Georges Lacombe (1868–1916), sculptor *

Émile Bernard Émile Henri Bernard (; 28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his no ...

(1868–1941), painter *

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

(1869–1954), painter, other media *

Adolf de Meyer Baron Adolph de Meyer (1 September 1868 – 6 January 1946) was a French-born American photographer famed for his portraits in the early 20th century, many of which depicted celebrities such as Mary Pickford, Rita Lydig, Luisa Casati, Billie Bur ...

(1869–1949), photographer * Georges d'Espagnat (1870–1950), painter, illustrator, engraver

Twentieth century (pre-World War II)

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Puteaux Group The Section d'Or ("Golden Section"), also known as Groupe de Puteaux or Puteaux Group, was a collective of Painting, painters, sculptors, poets and critics associated with Cubism and Orphism (art), Orphism. Based in the Parisian suburbs, the grou ...

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had s ...

Surrealism Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...

*Maurice Dubois (1869–1944), painter *

Georges Rouault Georges-Henri Rouault (; 27 May 1871, Paris - 13 February 1958, Paris) was a French painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. Childhood and education Rouault was born into a poor famil ...

(1871–1958), painter * Léon Printemps (1871–1945), painter *

František Kupka František Kupka (23 September 1871 – 24 June 1957), also known as ''Frank Kupka'' or ''François Kupka,'' was a Czech painter and graphic artist A graphic designer is a practitioner who follows the discipline of graphic design, eit ...

(1871–1957) (Czech, worked in France), painter * Henri-Charles Manguin (1874–1943), painter * Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (1875–1928), painter *

Albert Marquet Albert Marquet (; 27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, bu ...

(1875–1947), painter *

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

(1875–1963), painter *

Constantin Brâncuși Constantin Brâncuși (; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism ...

(1876–1957) (French, born in Romania), sculptor *

Maurice de Vlaminck Maurice de Vlaminck (; 4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were ...

(1876–1958) (Flemish, worked in France), painter *

Raymond Duchamp-Villon Raymond Duchamp-Villon (5 November 1876 – 9 October 1918) was a French sculptor. Life and art Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Normandy region of France, the second son of Eugène and Lucie Duch ...

(1876–1918), sculptor *

Raoul Dufy Raoul Dufy (; 3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) was a French painter associated with the Fauvist movement. He gained recognition for his vibrant and decorative style, which became popular in various forms, such as textile designs, and public build ...

(1877–1953), painter *

Jeanne Baudot Jeanne Baudot (; 11 May 1877 in Courbevoie – 27 June 1957 in Louveciennes) was a French Painting, painter. Life Jeanne Baudot's father, Emile, was the doctor to French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Renoir's relatives when they lived i ...

(1877–1957), painter * René Charles Edmond His, (1877–1960), landscape painter *

Jean Crotti Jean Crotti (24 April 1878 – 30 January 1958) was a French painter. Crotti was born in Bulle, Fribourg, Switzerland. He first studied in Munich, Germany at the School of Decorative Arts, then at age 23 moved to Paris to study art at the ...

(1878–1958) (Swiss), painter *

Louis Marcoussis Louis Marcoussis (born Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus or Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markus; 1878 or 1883 – October 22, 1941) was a Polish-French avant-garde painter active primarily in Paris. Markus studied law in Warsaw before attending the Kr ...

(Louis Markus) (1878–1941 or 1883–1941) (Polish, worked in France), painter *

Francis Picabia Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typography, typographist closely associated with Dada. When consid ...

(1879–1953), painter *

Jean-Georges Cornélius Jean-Georges Cornélius (23 January 1880, Strasbourg - 3 June 1963, Ploubazlanec) was a French painter and illustrator. Life Cornélius spent his childhood in Alsace but his family moved to Paris in 1895. There he became a student of Gustave Morea ...

(1880-1963), painter * Maurice Berty (1884–1946), illustrator *

André Derain André Derain (, ; 10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. In 2025, all of Derain’s work entered the public domain in the United States. Life and career Early ...

(1880–1954), painter * Joseph Hémard (1880–1961), illustrator * René Béclu (1881—1915), sculptor *

Charles Picart Le Doux Charles Alexandre Picart Le Doux (July 12, 1881—September 11, 1959) was a French painter, engraver, book illustrator, poet and author. He was part of the artistic milieu of Montmartre in the years before World War I, and active in the circle of ...

(1881—1959), painter *

Albert Gleizes Albert Gleizes (; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on ...

(1881–1952), painter, writer, theorist *

Henri Le Fauconnier Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier (; July 5, 1881 – December 25, 1946) was a French Cubist painter born in Hesdin. Le Fauconnier was seen as one of the leading figures among the Montparnasse Cubists. At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants Le ...

(1881–1946), painter * Jacob Macznik (1905–1945), painterUndzere Farpainikte Kinstler, Hersh Fenster, Imprimerie Abècé, Paris 1951 *

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

(1881–1955), painter *

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

(1882–1963), painter *

Auguste Chabaud Auguste Chabaud (3 October 1882 – 23 May 1955) was a French painter and sculptor. Biography He was born in Nimes. At the age of fourteen Chabaud joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Avignon. In 1899 he went to Paris to continue his artistic trai ...

(1882–1955), painter *

Auguste Herbin Auguste Herbin (29 April 1882 – 31 January 1960) was a French Painting, painter of modern art. He is best known for his Cubism, Cubist and abstract art, abstract paintings consisting of colorful Geometry, geometric figures. He co-founded the gr ...

(1882–1960), painter *

Jean Metzinger Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1 ...

(1883–1956), painter, engraver, poet, writer, theorist *

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 as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. Biography Laurencin was born in Par ...

(1883–1956), painter *

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

(1883–1955), painter * Marie-Renée Ucciani (1883–1963), painter, sculptor *

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (June 19, 1884 – July 9, 1974) was a French writer, poet, playwright, and painter associated with the Dada movement. He was born in Montpellier and died in Saint-Jeannet. In addition to numerous early paintings, R ...

(1884–1974), painter *

Jacques Maroger Jacques Maroger (; 1884–1962) was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museum's laboratory in Paris. He devoted his life to understanding the oil-based media of the Old Masters. He emigrated to the United States in 1939 and becam ...

(1884–1962), painter *

Robert Delaunay Robert Delaunay (; 12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism (art), Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and g ...

(1885–1941), painter *

André Dunoyer de Segonzac André Dunoyer de Segonzac (6 July 1884 – 17 September 1974) was a French painter and graphic artist. Biography Segonzac was born in Boussy-Saint-Antoine and spent his childhood there and in Paris. His parents wanted him to attend the military ...

(1884–1974), painter *

Raymond Wintz Josept Raymond Wintz (25 March 1884 – 1956) was a Paris-born painter and engraver whose most famous paintings were of marine and coastal views in Brittany. He is best known for his painting ''The Blue Door'', which is still widely available ...

(1884–1956), painter *

Pierre Brissaud Pierre Brissaud (23 December 1885 – 17 October 1964) was a French Art Deco illustrator, painter, and engraver. He was born in Paris and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, Paris. His father was Dr. Éd ...

(1885–1964), painter *

Roger de La Fresnaye Roger de La Fresnaye (; 11 July 1885 – 27 November 1925) was a French Cubist painter. Early years and education La Fresnaye was born in Le Mans where his father, an officer in the French army, was temporarily stationed. The La Fresnayes were ...

(1885–1925), painter * Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886–1943), French

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painter of the

Rouen School The Rouen School (L'École de Rouen) is a term used for artists or artisans born or working in Rouen, or for all artistic products from Rouen, such as Rouen faience of the 16th to 18th centuries. The term was first used in 1902 by Arsène Alexan ...

(l'École de Rouen) *

Amédée Ozenfant Amédée Ozenfant (15 April 1886 – 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter and writer. Together with Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (later known as Le Corbusier) he founded the Purist movement. Education Ozenfant was born into a bourgeois ...

(1886–1956), painter * Jean (Hans) Arp (1886–1966), painter, sculptor *

Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with the School of Paris, École de Paris, as well as several major art movement, artistic styles and created ...

(1887–1985) (born in Belarus), painter *

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

(1887–1968), painter, sculptor, other media * Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889–1963), painter *

Anna Quinquaud Anna Fanny Marguerite Quinquaud (1890–1984) was a French explorer and award-winning sculptor. From 1925, she travelled to the French-speaking countries of East Africa where she created numerous sculptures and water colours inspired by her impre ...

(1890–1984), explorer and sculptor *

Ossip Zadkine Ossip Alexeevich Zadkine (; 28 January 1888 – 25 November 1967) was a Russian and French artist of the School of Paris. He is best known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. Early years and education Zadkine was born o ...

(1890–1967) (Russian born), sculptor *

Sabine Desvallières Sabine Desvallières (22 February 1891– 16 February 1935), also known as Sœur Marie de la Grâce, was a French embroidery artist and Catholic nun. Biography Born into a family of artists in Paris on 22 February 1891, Sabine Desvallières was ...

(1891–1935), French embroiderer and nun *

Jacques Lipchitz Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, domi ...

(1891–1973) (born in Lithuania), sculptor *

Max Ernst Max Ernst (; 2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic trai ...

(1891–1976) (German born), painter, sculptor *

Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron (23 August 1891 – 30 March 1949) was a French watercolour painter known for her still lifes of flowers. She also painted war damaged churches in the 1940s. Life Lemoine-Lagron was born in the Paris suburb of Gournay-s ...

(1891–1949), painter * Louis Favre (1892–1956), painter, creator of lithographs *

Bram van Velde Abraham "Bram" Gerardus van Velde (19 October 1895 – 28 December 1981) was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style related to Tachisme, and Lyrical Abstraction. He is often seen as mem ...

(1892–1981) (Dutch, worked in France), painter *

Chaïm Soutine Chaïm Soutine (; ; ; 13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris. Inspired by clas ...

(1894–1943) (born in Belarus), painter *

Jacques Henri Lartigue Jacques Henri Lartigue (; 13 June 1894 – 12 September 1986) was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models. Biography Born in Courbevoie in western Paris to a ...

(1894–1986), photographer *

Jean Maurice Rothschild Jean-Maurice Rothschild (1902–1998) was an interior designer and furniture artist, whose most famous works were for the cruise liner Normandie, and the restaurant of the Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower ( ; ) is a wrought-iron lattice t ...

(1902–1998), furniture artist, interior designer, muralist *

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

(1895–1975), painter, engraver * Albert Gilles (1895–1979), metal embosser, working with copper *

Lucie Bouniol Lucie Bouniol (16 December 1896 – 31 January 1988) was a French sculptor and painter from the department of Tarn in southern France, who exhibited widely throughout the 20th century. Biography Bouniol was born in the family chateau in G ...

(1896–1988), sculptor, painter *

André Masson André-Aimé-René Masson (; 4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Biography Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but when he was eight his father's work took the family first briefly to Lille and then to Brus ...

(1896–1987), painter *

René Iché René Iché (21 January 1897 – 23 December 1954) was a 20th-century French sculptor. Life and work René Iché was born in Sallèles-d'Aude, France. He fought in World War I, where he was injured and gassed. After the war, he earned a degre ...

(1897–1954), sculptor, painter *

Jean Fautrier Jean Fautrier (; May 16, 1898 – July 21, 1964) was a French painter, illustrator, printmaker, and sculptor. He was one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme. Early life Jean Fautrier was born in Paris in 1898. He was given his unwed ...

(1898–1964), painter *

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

(1898–1962), painter, engraver, sculptor *

Henri Michaux Henri Michaux (; 24 May 1899 – 19 October 1984) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenhei ...

(1899–1984) (Belgian), painter *

Brassaï Brassaï (; pseudonym of Gyula Halász, ; 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerou ...

(Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary), photographer *

Yves Tanguy Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 - January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy (; ), was a French Surrealist painter. Biography Tanguy was the son of a retired navy captain, and was born January 5, 1900, at the Ministry of Naval Aff ...

(1900–1955) (naturalized American), painter

Twentieth century (post-World War II)

René Pellos René Pellos (born René Marcel Pellarin, 22 January 1900, Lyon – 8 April 1998, Cannes) was a French artist, cartoonist and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. He also competed in the men's hockey tourna ...

(1900–1998), cartoonist *

Madeleine Schlumberger Madeleine Schlumberger or Marie d’Ailleurs’ (28 April 1900 in Alsace – 24 August 1981) was a French people, French artist and writer. She left a vast body of artistic work: paintings or collages, manuscripts and most importantly, miniat ...

or Marie d’Ailleurs’ (1900–1980), artist, writer * Marcelle Bergerol (1901–1989), painter * Michel-Marie Poulain (]1906–1991), painter *

Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, Drafter, draftsman and Printmaking, printmaker, who was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced ...

(1901–1966) (Swiss, worked in Paris), sculptor, painter * Alfred-Georges Regner (1901–1987), painter, engraver *

Jean Dubuffet Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (; 31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French Painting, painter and sculpture, sculptor of the School of Paris, École de Paris (School of Paris). His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" a ...

(1901–1985), painter * Charles Cobelle (1902–1994), painter *

Hans Bellmer Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of '' Histoire de l’œil'', and the life-sized female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians ...

(1902–1975) (French, born in Germany), sculptor, photographer, engraver * Maurice Blanchard (1903–1969), painter *

Victor Brauner Victor Brauner (, also spelled Viktor Brauner; 15 June 1903 – 12 March 1966) was a Romanian painter and sculptor of the surrealism (art), surrealist movement. Early life He was born in Piatra Neamț, Romania, the son of a Jewish timber manufac ...

(1903–1966) (Romanian), painter *

Hans Hartung Hans Hartung (21 September 1904 – 7 December 1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the Legion d'honneur. Life Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany, into an ...

(1904–1992) (born in Germany), painter *

Jean Hélion Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. He w ...

(1904–1987), painter *

Pierre Tal-Coat Pierre Tal-Coat (real name Pierre Louis Jacob; 1905–1985) was a French artist considered to be one of the founders of Tachisme. Life and work He was born the son of a fisherman, in the village of Clohars-Carnoët, Finistère in 1905. He atten ...

(1905–1985), painter * Elisa Breton (1906–2000), artist and writer, third wife of French writer and surrealist

André Breton André Robert Breton (; ; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') ...

* Henri Cadiou (1906–1989), painter *

Victor Vasarely Victor Vasarely (; born Győző Vásárhelyi, ; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement. His work titled ''Zebra'', created in 1937, i ...

(1908–1997) (born in Hungary), painter *

Balthus Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his ima ...

(Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, called "Balthus") (1908–2001) (Polish born), painter *

Mario Tauzin Mario Tauzin (25 September 1909 – 31 October 1979) was an artist known for his erotic works published in 1930. He was born in Paris, France. His work was heavily influenced by Japanese Art Japanese art consists of a wide range of art ...

(1909–1979) *

Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq (1910–1973) was a French illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated te ...

(1910–1973), illustrator * Jacques Nathan Garamond (1910–2001), graphic designer, illustrator, painter *

Lucien Hervé Lucien Hervé (born László Elkán: 7 August 1910, – 26 June 2007) was a Hungarian photographer. He was notable for his architectural photography, beginning with his work for Le Corbusier. Biography * 1910 : Born as László Elkán on 7 Au ...

(László Elkán) (1910–2007) (born in Hungary), photographer * Othello Radou (1910–2006), 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) (lived and died in America), sculptor, other media *

Ervin Marton Ervin Marton (known as Marton Ervin in Hungarian; 17 June 1912 – 30 April 1968) was a Franco-Hungarian artist and photographer who became an integral part of the Paris art culture beginning in 1937. An internationally recognized photographer, ...

(1912–1968), photographer and artist *

Wols WOLS (106.1 MHz) is a Regional Mexican radio station, owned by Norsan Media. Licensed to Waxhaw, North Carolina, the station identifies itself as “La Raza 106.1”. The station’s studios are located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the tra ...

(1913–1951) (born in Germany), painter *

Pierre Wemaëre Pierre Wemaëre (October 1, 1913 – January 8, 2010) was a French painter and tapestry designer. Biography Wemaëre was born in Comines, France in 1913. Wemaëre was a student in Fernand Léger's Atelier de l'Art Contemporain in the mid 1930s ...

(1913–2010), painter * Etienne Martin (1913–1995), sculptor *

Nicolas de Staël Nicolas de Staël (; January 5, 1914 – March 16, 1955) was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles. Early li ...

(1914–1955) (French, Russian origin), painter * Gérard Locardi (1915–1998), painter * François Lanzi (1916–1988), painter *

Constantine Andreou Constantine Andreou (; 24 March 1917 – 8 October 2007) was a Brazilian-born Greek painter and sculptor with a highly successful career that spanned six decades. Andreou has been praised by many as an eminent figure in international art of the ...

(1917–2007) (Greek, Brazilian born), painter, sculptor *

Marcel Mouly Marcel Mouly (February 6, 1918 – January 7, 2008) was a French artist who painted in an abstract style. Early life Mouly was born in Paris, France, on February 6, 1918. His interest in art developed in grade school. Mouly was first sent ...

(1918–2008), painter, print maker * Bernard Cathelin (1919–2004), painter *

Maurice Boitel Maurice Boitel (July 31, 1919 – August 11, 2007) was a French painter. Artistic life Boitel belonged to the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" ("Young Picture") of the School of Paris,The School of Paris (1945–1965) by Lydia Harambourg. ...

(1919–2007), painter *

Pierre Soulages Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages (; ; 24 December 1919 – 25 October 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, President François Hollande of France described him as "the world's greatest living artist." His works are he ...

(1919–2022), painter * Gabrielle Bellocq (1920–1999), painter *

César Baldaccini César (born Cesare Baldaccini; 1 January 1921 – 6 December 1998), also occasionally referred to as César Baldaccini (), was a French sculptor. César was at the forefront of the Nouveau réalisme movement with his radical compressions (co ...

(called "César") (1921–1998), sculptor *

Claude Bonin-Pissarro Jean Claude Michel Bonin-Pissarro (11 July 1921 – 21 July 2021) was a French painter and graphic designer. Biography He was the son of Jeanne Pissarro (1881–1948) and the grandson of painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903). He was also ...

(1921–2021), painter *

Georges Mathieu Georges Mathieu (27 January 1921 – 10 June 2012) was a French abstract painter, art theorist, and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is considered one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction, a trend of informalism. B ...

(1921–2012), painter * Francois Fiedler (1921–2001), painter *

Simon Hantaï Simon Hantaï (7 December 1922, Biatorbágy, Hungary – Paris, 12 September 2008; took French nationality in 1966) is a painter generally associated with abstract art. Biography After studying at the Budapest School of Fine Art, he traveled ...

(1922–2018) (born in Hungary), painter *

Paul Crotto Paul Crotto (born 1922, New York - died 2016, Paris) was a French-American painter, sculptor and printmaker. Paul Crotto studied at the Art Student League in New York and then traveled to Europe in the early 1950s. He studied for two years at the ...

(1922–2016), painter, sculptor and printmaker * François Ozenda (1923–1976), painter *

Jean Tinguely Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines (known officially as Métamatics) that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century.Chilvers, Ian; Gl ...

(1925–1991) (Swiss), sculptor *

Robert Filliou Robert Filliou (17 January 1926 – 2 December 1987) was a French artist associated with Fluxus, who produced works as a filmmaker, action poet, sculptor, and happenings maestro. Life In 1943, Filliou became a member of the French Communis ...

(1926–1987), other media *

Raymond Hains Raymond Hains (9 November 1926 – 28 October 2005) was a French visual artist and a founder of the Nouveau réalisme movement. In 1960, he signed, along with Arman, François Dufrêne, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeglé and P ...

(1926–2005), other media *

Paul Rebeyrolle Paul Rebeyrolle (3 November 1926 in Eymoutiers – 7 February 2005 in Côte-d'Or) was a French people, French painter. Life and works As a child he had tuberculosis of the bone, which caused for long periods of immobility. Later he studied in Li ...

(1926–2005), painter *

François Morellet François Morellet (30 April 1926 – 10 May 2016) was a French contemporary abstract painter, sculptor, and light artist. His early work prefigured minimal art and conceptual art and he played a prominent role in the development of geometrica ...

(1926–2016), painter * Jacques de la Villeglé (1926–2022), other media (ripped posters) *

François Dilasser François Dilasser (5 March 1926 – 16 September 2012) was a French painter. Biography François Dilasser was born on 5 March 1926 in Lesneven, France. He was involved in painting since childhood. From 1970, he regularly exhibited in galler ...

(1926–2012), painter *

Georges Badin Georges Badin (March 13, 1927 – November 23, 2014) was a French poet and painter. Georges Badin was the curator of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret from 1967 to 1986. Recent exhibitions * Maison de la Catalanité, Perpignan (2011) Galerie � ...

(1927–2014), painter *

Bernard Buffet Bernard Buffet (; 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative and is often classified as Exp ...

(1928–1999), painter *

Yves Klein Yves Klein (; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein wa ...

(1928–1962), painter *

Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette (; 1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine '' Cahiers du Cinéma''. He made twenty-nine films, including '' L'Amour fo ...

(1928–2016), filmmaker *

Arman Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French and American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (''cachets'', ''allures d'objet'') t ...

(Armand Fernandez) (1928–2005), sculptor *

Natalie d'Arbeloff Natalie d'Arbeloff born August 7 1929 in Paris of a French mother and Russian father is a British American artist, known for her work as painter, printmaker, book artist, cartoonist, and writer. Biography She lived in France, Paraguay, Brazil, ...

(1929–), cartoonist and painter * Gérard Gasiorowski (1930–1986), painter, other media *

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

(1930–2002), sculptor * Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) (Uruguay/French, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico), abstract realism *

Jules Michel Jules Michel (born 10 April 1931) is a French artist. As a child of eight, while exploring the family attic, Jules Michel discovered an old oil-paint box. With it, he quickly improvised his first paintings. He was an audacious and reckless yo ...

(1931–), painter, sculptor *

Tomi Ungerer Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (; 28 November 1931 – 9 February 2019) was a French artist and writer from Alsace (a French region on the French/German border). He published over 140 books ranging from children's books to adult works and from the f ...

(1931–2019), artist, illustrator * Bernard Rancillac (1931–2021), painter, sculptor *

Jean-Marie Straub Jean-Marie is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Jean-Marie Carroll (born 1956), English musician and composer * Jean-Marie Abgrall (born 1950), French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medic ...

(1933–2022) and Danièle Huillet (1936–2006), filmmakers * Lydia Corbett (1934–), artist *

Jean Pierre Serrier Jean Pierre Serrier (18 October 1934 – 30 March 1989) was a French painter known for surrealism and absurdist art. Early life and education He was born in the Montparnasse district of Paris, the son of Louis and Solange Serrier. His father fo ...

(1934–1989), painter *

Jean-Pierre Yvaral Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1934–2002), professionally known as Yvaral, was a French artist working in the fields of op-art and kinetic art from 1954 onwards. He was the son of Victor Vasarely, who was a pioneer of op-art. Life and work Yvaral stud ...

(1934–2002) (son of Victor Vasarely), painter *

Jean-Michel Sanejouand Jean-Michel Sanejouand (18 July 1934 – 18 March 2021) was a French artist. His work ranged from environments to monumental sculptures, from Found art, readymade-like objects, to paintings of Oneirology, oneiric landscapes in which (usually) on ...

(1934–2021), sculptor, painter *

Silviane Léger Silviane Léger (22 May 1935 – 9 February 2012) was a French sculptor. She is known for her monumental figurative and expressive public sculptures. Biography Silviane Léger was born on 22 May 1935, in Lille in Hauts-de-France, France. She ...

(1935–2012), French sculptor *

Ben Vautier Benjamin Vautier (; 18 July 1935 – 5 June 2024), also known mononymously as Ben, was a French visual artist. Early life Benjamin Vautier was born on 18 July 1935 in Naples, Italy, to a French family. He was the great-grandson of the Swiss p ...

(called "Ben") (1935–), painter, other media *

Martial Raysse Martial Raysse (born 12 February 1936) is a French artist and actor. He lives in Issigeac, France. He holds the record for the most expensive work sold by a living French artist. Biography Raysse was born in a ceramicist family in Vallauris and ...

(1936–), painter *

Daniel Buren Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for ...

(1938–), sculptor, painter * Pierre Laffillé (1938–2011), painter *

Henri Sert Henri Paul Sert (27 July 1938 La Réunion, Madagascar – 22 March 1964 Stockholm, Sweden) was an artist. When he was 10 years old, Sert's mother brought him to Paris, where he had received his education at a Jesuit monastery.Gérard Fromanger Gérard Fromanger (6 September 1939 – 18 June 2021) was a French visual artist. A painter who also employed collage, sculpture, photography, cinema, and lithography, he was associated with the French artistic movement of the 1960s and 1970s, ca ...

(1939–2021), painter, other media *

Sandra Jayat Sandra Jayat (13 May 1930 (?) – 19 February 2025) was a French writer and artist of Romani people, Romani descent. She left her Nomad, nomadic family at age 15. She travelled on her own to Italy and Paris. She became associated with the surviv ...

(c.1939–), painter, poet, author *

Nancy Wilson-Pajic Nancy Wilson-Pajic (born 1941) is an artist who uses narrative forms (primarily recorded text installations, but also video, performance, photography) to make narrative, content-oriented artworks. Biography Wilson-Pajic was born in Peru, Indian ...

(1941–), media artist, feminist artist, installation artist, photographer *

Bernar Venet Bernar Venet (born 20 April 1941) is a French conceptual artist. He was the 2016 recipient of the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement Award. Early life Bernar Venet was born to Jean-Marie Venet, a school teacher and chemist ...

(1941–) (lives in America), sculptor *

Daniel Dezeuze Daniel Dezeuze (born 1942) is a List of French artists, French artist and a founding member of the French group of artists called Supports/Surfaces. This group (made up of Dezeuze, Claude Viallat, Patrick Saytour, Louis Cane, André-Pierre Arn ...

(1942–), other media * Anne Poirier (1942–), painter, other media *

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 ...

(1942–), painter * Tania Mouraud (1942–), contemporary artist *

Jean Jacques Surian Jean Jacques Surian is a French painter born in 1942 in Marseille. He studied in Marseille and Paris and lives in Marseille. He carried out a lot of exhibitions since its first exposure in Marseille in 1965. He was inspired by the painters of i ...

(1942–), painter and ceramist, lives in Marseilles *

Patrick Bokanowski Patrick Bokanowski (born 23 June 1943 in film, 1943 in Algiers, French Algeria) is a French people, French filmmaker who makes experimental film, experimental and animation, animated films. Career The film ''The Angel (1982 film), The Angel'' (1 ...

(1943–), filmmaker * Pierre Risch (1943–), painter, lithograph, engraver, designer, pastellist, watercolorist *

Slobodan Pajic Slobodan Pajic (born 1943) is a visual artist who uses a variety of media (primarily video, laser light, photography, film, sound) in his plastic research. He began very early to work with new technologies to create unique abstract and graphic form ...

(1943–), painter, media artist, installation artist *

René-Louis Baron René-Louis Baron (9 February 1944 – 20 May 2016) is a French inventor, author and songwriter. He was 14 years old when he played for the first time on stage as a jazz clarinettist. Later, in 1978, he began in Paris a career as a solo singer. In ...

(1944–2016), conceptualist, algorithmic music composer *

Christian Boltanski Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style. Early life Boltanski wa ...

(1944–2021), painter, photographer, other media, sculptor * Reine Mazoyer, (1944–), painter, illustrator, set designer *

Jacques Pellegrin Jacques Pellegrin (12 June 1873 – 12 August 1944) was a French zoology, zoologist. Biography Pellegrin was born in Paris on 12 June 1873. He worked under zoologist Léon Vaillant (chair of reptiles and fishes) at the ''Muséum national d'hi ...

(1944–2021), painter *

Henri Richelet Henri Richelet (16 June 1944 – 18 March 2020) was a French painter. Biography Born to primary school teachers in a small village close to Domrémy, the birthplace of Joan of Arc, Henri Richelet spent his childhood and adolescence in the neigh ...

(1944–2020), painter *

Thierry Agullo Thierry Agullo (1945 in Bordeaux – 29 January 1980 in Poitiers), was a French artist. He is best known for his collections of irons, shoes, and other objectsA collection of irons and shoes named ''94 pointes lancées à bouts tronqués'' is ex ...

(1945–1980), mixed media * Jean-Yves Lechevallier (1946–), sculptor *

Gérard Garouste Gérard Garouste (born 10 March 1946) is a French Contemporary art, contemporary artist having the primary field of work as visual and performative domain. Since 1979, he has lived and worked in Marcilly-sur-Eure in Normandy, where he founded an ...

(1946–), sculptor, painter, other media *

Jean-Marie Poumeyrol Jean-Marie Poumeyrol (born at Libourne on June 8, 1946) is a French artist. Much of his early work consisted of erotica and hallucinogenic art, but as his art has developed he has shown a great interest in landscapes as well. He is an exponent of ...

(1946–), painter * Denis Schneider (1946–), painter *

Yves Hayat Yves Hayat (born 1946 in Cairo, Egypt) is a French visual artist. Early life and career Hayat was born in 1946 in Cairo, Egypt. After the 1952 Egyptian revolution, Egyptian Revolution, he left Cairo with his family in 1956 to live in the South ...

(1946–), painter * Orlan (1947–), performance artist, body artist * Champion Métadier (1947–), visual artist *

Bracha L. Ettinger Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (; born 23 March 1948) is an Israeli-French artist, writer, psychoanalyst and philosopher based in France. Born in Mandatory Palestine, she lives and works in Paris. She is a feminist theorist and artist in contempora ...

(1948–) (born in Tel Aviv), painter, photographer, new media, artists' books *

Thibaut de Reimpré Thibaut de Reimpré (1949 – 7 February 2023) was a French contemporary painter. Biography Born in Paris in 1949, he attended the 'Beaux-Arts' in Paris and worked, in particular, in the 'Atelier Yankel' from 1968 to 1971. He worked either in P ...

(1949–2023), abstract painter * Claudine Drai (1951–), visual artist * Claude-Max Lochu (1951–), painter *

Pierre Toutain-Dorbec Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, (born 16 April 1951) in Orbec, Normandy, France is a Franco-American photographer, artist, author, and publisher whose work emphasizes a humanist perspective. Biography Pierre grew up in Orbec, Normandy, and Paris. Hi ...

(1951–), painter, sculptor, photographer, writer * Guillerm Zamor (1951–), painter, sculptor, writer *

Jean-Marc Bustamante Jean-Marc Bustamante (born 1952) is a French artist, painter, sculptor and photographer. He is a noted conceptual and installation artist and has incorporated ornamental design and architectural space in his works. Early life Bustamante was born ...

(1952–), painter, sculptor, photographer *

Hélène Agofroy Hélène Agofroy (born 1953) is an artist who lives and works in Paris, France. Her work combines installation, spatial arrangement and performance. Her works are in the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (including the 2000 collection catalog). ...

(1953–), contemporary artist * Thierry Bisch (1953–), painter *

Bernard Frize Bernard Frize (born 1949, Saint-Mandé, France) is a French painter who works in a variety of materials and utilizes a multitude of techniques. As an artist he explores the bare minimal essence of painting, devoid of conception and aesthetic, in ...

(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 Patrick Mimran (born 1956 in Paris, France) is a contemporary French multimedia artist, composer, and the former CEO of Lamborghini. He is most widely known for Lamborghini's turn-around in the early 1980s and his art exhibit, "The Billboard Proje ...

(1956–), multimedia artist * Michel De Caso (1956–), painter, sculptor * Robert Combas (1957–), painter *

Maurice Benayoun Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen or 莫奔) (born 29 March 1957) is a French new-media artist, curator, and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong. His work employs various media, including video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, the ...

(aka MoBen) (1957–), media artist *

Pascal Lecocq Pascal Lecocq (born 4 June 1958) is a French Painting, painter and set designer. He is the ''Painter of Blue '' who paints on high backcloths of sky or deep sea, as a stage director, figures, horses, divers, allegories, architectures, Venice, and ...

(1958–) painter, set designer * Emmanuel Flipo (1958–), painter *

Thierry Noir Thierry Noir (born 1958) is a French artist and muralist based in Berlin. He is considered the first artist to paint the Berlin Wall in the 1980s. He created brightly-colored paintings across large spans of the Berlin Wall and some of these ori ...

(1958–), artist and muralist *

Hervé Di Rosa Hervé Di Rosa (born 1959 in Sète, Hérault) is a French painter. Born in Sète, France, Hervé Di Rosa is a French painter who brings to life unique characters who populate his work in the form of paintings, sculptures, installations and animati ...

(1959–), painter * Zaven Paré (1961–), new media artist * (1961–), painter and drawer * Victor Orly (1962–), (lives and works in Marseilles), painter, ceramist *

Pierre Huyghe Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French contemporary artist, who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems. He lives and works in Santiago de Chile. Early life and education Pier ...

(1962–), media, film, video *

Bibi Bibi is a given name, nickname and surname. People with the nickname or stage name * Bibi Andersson (1935–2019), Swedish actress * Bibi (artist) (born 1964), French visual artist Fabrice Cahoreau * Bibi Baskin (born 1952), Irish former TV an ...

(1964–), installation artist *

Damien Valero Damien Valero (born 1965) is a French mixed-media visual artist and professor of art and space at Georgia Tech (USA) and l' École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette (France). His work is held in the National Collectio ...

(1965–), mixed media artist * Marie Jaffredo (1966–), comics creator * Manu Farrarons (1967–), tattoo artist, graphic designer, illustrator, other media *

Lionel Estève Lionel Estève (born July 30, 1967) is a French artist sculptor recognized for his work grounded in geometric abstraction and kinetic art. His work deals with the boundaries of human perception and connection between man and nature. Since the lat ...

(1967–), (lives and works in Brussels), sculpture and installation artist *

Phil. Macquet Phil. Macquet (born October 8, 1967, at Lille, France) is a French painter. Inspired by the Street Art movement of the 1980s (Urban Art), he focused on the digital arts and adapted his stencil technique with new technologies to create large format ...

(1967–), painter *

Johanna Schipper Johanna Schipper (born 1967), known by the pen name Johanna and more rarely as Nina, is a Taiwanese-born French ''bande dessinée'' comic book cartoonist, short story writer, and educator of Dutch heritage. She is a laureate of the 2008 for women ...

(known as "Johanna"; 1967–), bande dessinée artist *

Béatrice Cussol Béatrice Cussol (born 1970) is a French artist and writer. She was born in Toulouse and received a from the Ecole Pilote Internationale d'Arte et de Recherche. She lives in Paris and teaches at the École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre-Ro ...

(1970–), watercolor, drawing, mural *

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. ...

(1972–), painter * Béatrice Tillier (1972–), illustrator and bande dessinée cartoonist *

Virginie Augustin Virginie Augustin (11 March 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 ...

(1973–), comics and animated features artist *

Jean-François Batellier Jean-François Batellier (born 1947 in Paris) is an independent "political" (in the broadest sense) cartoonist. He works in the dazibao style, frequently exhibiting his drawings on the streets. He has had many court cases concerned with the legal ...

(1974–), caricaturist and cartoonist * Abdelkader Benchamma (1975–), drawings, sculptor *

Morgane Tschiember Morgane Tschiember is a French artist. She was born in Brest, France in 1976 and currently lives and works in Paris, France. Biography She graduated from DNSAP from ENSBA in Paris (National School of Fine Arts) in 2002 and DNSEP (National Sch ...

(1976–), sculptor, video artist * Y Liver (1977–) (lives and works in Paris), video maker and performance artists * Thomas Canto (1979–), contemporary artist known for his geometric and architectural interventions *

Aude Massot Aude Massot (born 27 September 1983, Les Lilas) is a French ''bande dessinée'' comic book artist. She is a member of the Collective of female comics creators against sexism. Her non-fiction comics book with Karim Lebhour, (2018) was shortlisted ...

(1983–), comic book artist *

Oriane Lassus Oriane Lassus (born in 1987) is a French author and cartoonist, as well as an illustrator. Biography Since 2009, Lassus has contributed to the ''Spongiculture'' blog in which she goes through her daily life against a backdrop of acerbic humour. ...

(1987–), cartoonist and illustrator * Seb Toussaint (1988–), artist and muralist * Jisbar (1989–), artist and painter * Youssef Tabti, concept artist

French photographers

(Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927) *

(Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary) *

(1807–1887) * Adeline Boutain (1862–1946), photographer, postcard publisher *

Adolphe Braun Jean Adolphe Braun (13 June 1812 – 31 December 1877)John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography', Vol. 1 (Routledge, 2007), pp. 204–205. was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes ...

(1812–1877) * Alexandra Boulat (1962–2007), photographer *

Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (; born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Daughter of the contemporary art collector Robert Calle, Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constrai ...

(1953–), other media, photographer *

Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and Humanist photography, humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 135 film, 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street ...

(1908–2004) *

(1787–1851) *

Robert Doisneau Robert Doisneau (; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and, with Henri Cartier-Bresson, a pioneer of photojournalism. D ...

(1912–1994) *

Pierre Dubreuil Pierre Dubreuil (March 5, 1872 – January 9, 1944) was a French photographer, born in Lille, who spent his career in France and Belgium. As a pioneer of modernist photography, Dubreuil embraced innovative techniques and ideas that were celebrate ...

(1872–1944), photographer * Philippe Echaroux (1983–) *

(László Elkán) (1910–2007), photographer (born in Hungary) *

(1894–1986) *

Ange Leccia Ange Leccia (born 19 April 1952) is a contemporary French painter, photographer and film-maker. He works in Paris primarily with photography and video. Life and career Leccia was born in Minerbio, Barrettali commune, in Corsica Corsica ( , ...

(1952–), photographer, filmmaker *

Jean-François Lepage Jean-François Lepage (born 22 February 1960), is a French photographer and painter. He lives and works in Paris. Life and work Lepage was born in Paris, France, in 1960. He was introduced to photography by his uncle who was art director at ' ...

(1960–), photographer *

(1830–1904) *

(1816–1879) *

(Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820–1910) *

(1765–1833), inventor of photography *

Pierre et Gilles Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

(Pierre: 1949, Gilles: 1953), photographers (active since 1976) *

Michel Poivert Michel Poivert (born 1965) is a professor of the history of contemporary art and photography at the Sorbonne. He has taken a special interest in pictorialism, the subject of his doctorate thesis. From 1995 to 2010, he was president of Société f ...

(1965–), photography historian, president of Société française de photographie *

Herman Puig Herman Puig (born German Puig Paredes; 25 February 192825 January 2021) was the founder of the first Cinemateca de Cuba and a pioneer of male nude photography. Born in Havana, Cuba, he began his career there and later gained fame in France. His her ...

(originally from Cuba), photographer, filmmaker *

Constant Puyo Émile Joachim Constant Puyo (November 12, 1857 – October 6, 1933) was a French photographer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As the leading advocate of the Pictorialist movement in France, he championed the practice of photog ...

(1857–1933) *

Marc Riboud Marc Riboud (; 24 June 1923 – 30 August 2016) was a French photographer, best known for his extensive reports on the Far East: ''The Three Banners of China'', ''Face of North Vietnam'', ''Visions of China'', and ''In China''. Early life and e ...

(1923–2016), photographer * Georges Rousse (1947–), photographer *

Bettina Rheims Bettina Caroline Germaine Rheims (; born 18 December 1952) is a French photographer. Career Early stages Bettina Rheims was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Her photographic career began in 1978, when she took a series of photos of a group of stripte ...

(1952–), photographer *

Willy Ronis Willy Ronis (; 14 August 191012 September 2009) was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence. Life and work Ronis was born in Paris to Jewish immigrants. His father, Emmanuel Ronis, was from Odessa, a ...

(1910–2009), photographer *

Lise Sarfati Lise Sarfati (born 1958) is a French photographer and artist. She is noted for her photographs of elusive characters, often young, who resist any attempt to being pinned down. Her work particularly explores the instability of feminine identity. M ...

(1958–), photographer *

Jean-Louis Schoellkopf Jean-Louis Schoellkopf (born 1946) is a French photographer. Work Schoellkopf's work explores the problems that cities face with economic change, which have led to new arrangements of urban spaces, creating new ways of thinking and of living wit ...

(1946–), photographer * Alex Strohl (1989–) * Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud (1866–1951), photographer and military officer *

(1951–) *

Xavier Veilhan Xavier Veilhan () is a French artist who works and lives in Paris, France. Career Significant projects include: Veilhan Versailles at the Palace and Gardens of the Palace of Versailles, Palais de Versailles in 2009; Architectones, a series o ...

(1963–), photographer, other media * Jean-Marie Villard (1828–1899) *

(Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913–1951) (German, worked in France), photographer

References

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Artists An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...