List of French artists
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The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
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Middle Ages
See also Middle Ages, Gothic architecture, Illuminated manuscript
- Villard de Honnecourt (1200s) other media
- Jean Pucelle (active 1325-28) other media
- Claus Sluter (Dutch, worked in Burgundy from 1395-1406) sculptor
- the Limbourg brothers (Pol and Hermann) (Flemish artists working in Burgundy around 1403-1416) other media
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Renaissance
See also Renaissance, Francis I of France, Henri II of France, Catherine de' Medici, Henri III of France, Henri IV of France, Louvre, Fontainebleau, Châteaux of the Loire Valley
- Jacques Morel (artist) (c.1395-1459) sculptor
- Simon Marmion (c.1420-1489) Illuminations
- Jean Fouquet (1420-1481) painter, Illuminations
- Nicolas Froment (c.1450 — c.1490) painter
- Pierre Antoine Le Moiturier (active in the 1460s) sculptor
- Jean Clouet (c.1485-1541) (Flemish born) painter, Miniatures
- Jean Duvet (c.1485-c.1570) engraver
- Jehan Cousin the elder (1500-1593) painter, engraver, sculptor
- Ligier Richier (1500-1567) sculptor
- Philibert Delorme (or de L'Orme) (1505/1510-1570) sculptor, Architectural plans
- Pierre Bontemps (1505/1510-after 1562) sculptor
- Jean Goujon (c.1510-1565?) sculptor
- Bernard Palissy (1510-1590) Master potter
- Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (c1510-1585) Architectural plans
- Jean Juste (active 1515-1530) sculptor
- François Clouet (c.1515-1572) (son of Jean Clouet) painter
- Pierre Lescot (c.1515-1578) sculptor, Architect
- Antoine Caron (c.1521-1599) painter
- Jehan Cousin the younger (c. 1522-1593) painter
- Germain Pilon (c.1535-1590) sculptor
- Ambroise Dubois (c.1542-1614) (Flemish born) painter
- Barthélemy Prieur (c.1536-1616) sculptor
- Toussaint Dubreuil (c.1561-1602) painter
- Martin Fréminet (1567-1619) painter
- Frans Pourbus the younger (1569-1622) (Flemish born) painter
- Jacques Bellange (1575-1616) (in Lorraine) engraver
- Jean Decourt (active 1570s) painter
- François Quesnel (active 1580s) painter
- Jacques Patin (active 1580s) engraver
- Claude Deruet (1588-1660) (in Lorraine) painter
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Seventeenth century
See also French Baroque and Classicism, Louis XIII of France, Cardinal Richelieu, Baroque, Louis XIV of France, Palace of Versailles, Classicism
- Jean de Beaugrand (1584-1640) lineographer
- Simon Vouet (1590-1649) painter
- Jacques Callot (1592-1635) (in Lorraine) engraver
- Georges de La Tour (1593-1652) painter
- Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) painter
- Antoine Le Nain (before 1600-?) painter
- Louis Le Nain (after 1600-?) painter
- Abraham Bosse (1602-1676) engraver
- Claude Gelée, called Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) painter
- Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674)
- Laurent de La Hyre (1606-1565) painter
- Mathieu Le Nain (1607-c.1677) painter
- Pierre Mignard (1612-1695) painter
- Gaspard Dughet (1613-1675) French painter
- André Le Nôtre (1613-1700) Landscape architect
- Eustache Le Sueur (1616-1655) painter
- Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671) painter
- Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) painter, other media
- Pierre Paul Puget (1620-1694) sculptor
- Guillaume Courtois (1628-1679) French painter and etcher
- François Girardon (1628-1715) sculptor
- Claude Lefebvre (1633-1675) painter and engraver
- Charles de la Fosse (1636-1716) painter
- Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720) sculptor
- Charles de La Fosse (1640-1716) French painter
- Étienne Allegrain (1644-1736) French topographical painter
- Jean Jouvenet (1644-1717) painter
- François de Troy (1645-1730) painter
- Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746) painter
- Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743) painter
- Antoine Coypel (1661-1722) sculptor
- François Desportes (1661-1743) painter
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Eighteenth century
See also Palace of Versailles, Louis XV of France, Madame de Pompadour, Rococo, Louis XVI of France, Neoclassicism, Enlightenment, Gobelins. For art criticism, see Denis Diderot and 18th century French art.
- Alexis Simon Belle (1674-1734)
- Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752) (son of François) painter
- Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) painter
- Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684–1745) painter
- Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766) painter
- Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) painter
- Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels (1686-1767) engraver
- François Lemoyne (1688-1737) painter
- Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) painter
- Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) French painter, art commentator, and playwright
- Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736) painter
- Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) painter
- Charles Joseph Natoire (1700-1777) painter
- Louis-François Roubiliac (1702-1762) sculptor
- Jean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) painter
- François Boucher (1703-1770) painter, engraver
- Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788) painter
- Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1704-1778) painter, sculptor
- Charles-André van Loo (Carle Van Loo) (1705-1765) (brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo) painter
- Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771) (son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo) painter
- Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785) sculptor
- Claude Joseph Vernet (1714-1789) painter
- Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783) painter
- Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716-1791) sculptor
- Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809) painter
- Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795) (son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo) painter
- Charles Germain de Saint Aubin (1721-1786) engraver, embroidery designer
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) painter
- François-Hubert Drouais (Drouais le fils) (1727-1775) painter
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) painter
- Jean-Jacques Durameau (1733-1796) painter
- Hubert Robert (1733-1808) painter, engraver
- Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734-1772), painter
- Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735-1802) French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes
- Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1735-1784) painter
- Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre (1739-c1800) painter
- Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) sculptor
- Jean Michel Moreau (Moreau the younger) (1741-1814) engraver
- Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818) - French painter
- Jacques Louis David (1748-1825) painter
- Antoine Berjon (1754-1843) - French painter and designer
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829)
- Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) painter
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Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism)
See also French Revolution, Napoleon I, Romanticism, Barbizon school, Naturalism, Symbolism (arts), Impressionism, Academic art, Napoleon III of France, Photography, Modernism
- Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757-1841) - French painter known for his landscapes
- Pierre Prudhon (1758-1823) painter
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) photographer
- Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765-1825), French poet and painter from Brittany
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824) painter
- Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855) painter
- Antoine Jean Gros (1771-1835) painter
- Pierre Narcisse Guérin (1771-1833) painter
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) painter
- Étienne Bouhot (1780-1862) French painter and art teacher
- Alexandre-François Caminade (1783-1862) - French portraitist and a religion painter
- François Rude (1784-1855) sculptor
- Eugenie Margeurite Honoree Charen (1786-1824) French painter
- Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787-1851) photographer
- Charles de Steuben (1788-1856) French painter active during the Napoleonic Era
- Horace Vernet (1789-1863) painter
- Jules Robert Auguste (c.1789-1850) painter
- Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) painter
- Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845) painter
- Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875) sculptor
- Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) painter
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) painter
- Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) painter
- Hippolyte Bellangé (1800-1866) painter
- Achille Devéria (1800-1857) painter, engraver
- Paul Huet (1803-1869) painter
- Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, called) (1803-1847) engraver
- Eugène Isabey (1803-1886) painter
- Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804-1860) painter
- Edouard Vienot (born 1804) painter
- Hippolyte Bayard (1807-1887) photographer
- Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) painter, engraver
- Louis Boulanger (1808-1867) painter
- Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (1808-1878) (Born in Spain) painter
- Auguste Préault (1809-1879) sculptor
- Ignace François Bonhomme (1809-1881) painter
- Constant Troyon (1810-1865) painter
- Jules Dupré (1811-1889) painter
- Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867) painter
- Boissard de Boisdenier (1813-1866) painter
- Charles Jacque (1813-1894) painter
- Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) painter
- Thomas Couture (1815-1879) painter
- Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) painter
- Jacques-Eugene Feyen (1815-1908) painter
- Charles Marville (1816-1879) painter, engraver, photographer
- Antoine Chintreuil (1816-1873) painter
- Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna (1817-1878) painter
- François Bonvin (1817-1887) painter
- Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878) painter
- Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891) (Dutch, worked in France) painter
- Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856) painter
- Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) painter
- Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876) painter
- Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820-1910) photographer
- Charles Méryon (1821-1868) engraver
- Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) painter
- Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) painter
- Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887), French sculptor and painter
- Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) painter
- Théodule Ribot (1824-1891) painter
- Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) painter
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes(1824-1898) painter
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) painter
- Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) painter
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) sculptor
- Elie Delaunay (1828-1891) painter
- Achille Emperaire (1829-1898) French painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne
- François Salle (1839-1899)
- Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902) painter
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Nineteenth century (Impressionism to Fauvism)
See also Modern art, Modernism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Les Nabis, Fauvism, Symbolism (arts), Symbolist painters, Art Nouveau, Primitivism (art)
- Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) painter
- Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) photographer
- Édouard Manet (1832-1883) painter
- Gustave Doré (1832-1883) engraver
- Edgar Degas (1834-1917) painter, sculptor
- Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) painter
- Jules Chéret (1836-1932) painter, other media
- Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) painter
- Odilon Redon (1840-1916) painter, engraver and pastels
- Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) sculptor
- Claude Monet (1840-1926) painter
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) painter
- Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) painter
- Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) painter
- Marie Bracquemond (1841-1916) painter
- Alexander Louis Leloir (1843-1884) French painter
- Henri Rousseau ("Le Douanier Rousseau") (1844-1910) painter
- Jean Antonin Mercié (1845-1916) sculptor
- Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) painter
- Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) painter
- Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) painter, sculptor
- Henry Lerolle (1848-1929) painter
- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) (Dutch, worked in France) painter
- Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857-1927) photographer
- Mathurin Janssaud (1857-1940) painter
- Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859-1891) painter
- Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) sculptor
- Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) sculptor
- Louis Vivin (1861-1936) painter
- Antonio de la Gandara (1861-1917) painter
- Paul Signac (1863-1935) painter
- Henri Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) painter
- Paul Sérusier (1864-1927) painter
- Paul Ranson (1864-1909) painter
- Albert Aurier (1865-1892), poet, art critic and painter devoted to Symbolism
- Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) painter
- Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) (Swiss, worked in France) engraver
- Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) painter
- Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867-1944) painter
- Hector Guimard (1867-1942) Architect and Decorator
- Edouard Jean Vuillard (1868-1940) painter
- Georges Lacombe (1868-1916) sculptor
- Emile Bernard (1868-1941) painter
- Henri Matisse (1869-1954) painter, other media
- Adolf de Meyer (1869-1949) photographer
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Twentieth century (Pre World War II)
See also Modern art, Modernism, Cubism, Puteaux Group, Dada, Surrealism
- Georges Rouault (1871-1958) painter
- Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) (Czech, worked in France) painter
- Henri-Charles Manguin (1874-1943) painter
- Albert Marquet (1875-1947) painter
- Jacques Villon (1875-1963) painter
- Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) (French, born in Romania) sculptor
- Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) (Flemish, worked in France) painter
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918) sculptor
- Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) painter
- Jean Crotti (1878-1958) (Swiss) painter
- Louis Marcoussis (Louis Markus)(1878-1941) or (1883-1941) (Polish, worked in France) painter
- Francis Picabia (1879-1953) painter
- André Derain (1880-1954) painter
- Joseph Hémard (1880-1961) illustrator
- Albert Gleizes (1881-1952) painter
- Henri Le Fauconnier (1881-1946) painter
- Fernand Léger (1881-1955) painter
- Georges Braque (1882-1963) painter
- Auguste Herbin (1882-1960) painter
- Jean Metzinger (1883-1956) painter, engraver
- Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) painter
- Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955) painter
- Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884-1974) painter
- Jacques Maroger (1884-1962) painter
- Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) painter
- André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884-1974) painter
- Pierre Brissaud (1885-1964) painter
- Roger de la Fresnaye (1885-1925) painter
- Amédée Ozenfant (1886-1956) painter
- Jean (Hans) Arp (1886-1966) painter, sculptor
- Marc Chagall (1887-1985) (Born in Belarus) painter
- Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) painter, sculptor, other media
- Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889-1963) painter
- Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967) (Russian born) sculptor
- Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) (Born in Poland) sculptor
- Max Ernst (1891-1976) painter, sculptor
- Bram van Velde (1892-1981) (Dutch, worked in France) painter
- Chaïm Soutine (1894-1943) (Born in Lithuania) painter
- Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) photographer
- Gen Paul (1895-1975) painter, engraver
- Albert Gilles (1895-1979) metal embosser, working with copper
- André Masson (1896-1987) painter
- René Iché (1897-1954) sculptor, painter
- Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) painter
- Georges Gimel (1898-1962) painter,engraver,sculptor
- Henri Michaux (1899-1984) (Belgian) painter
- Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899-1984) (born in Hungary) photographer
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Twentieth century (Post World War II)
See also Modern art
- Constantine Andreou (1917-2007) (Greek, Brazilian born) painter, sculptor
- Arman (Armand Fernandez) (1928-2005) sculptor
- Serge Arto (1959-) painter,sculptor, photographer,media artist
- Georges Badin (1927-) painter
- César Baldaccini (called "César") (1921-1998) sculptor
- Gilles Balmet (1979-) Video artist, painter, photographer and other media
- Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, called "Balthus") (1908-2001) (Polish born) painter
- Vanilla Beer (1953) painter, daughter of Anthony Stafford Beer
- Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) (French, Born in Germany) sculptor, photographer, engraver
- Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen) (1957-) media artist
- Thierry Bisch (1953-) painter
- Maurice Boitel (1919-) painter
- Christian Boltanski (1944-) painter, photographer, other media, sculptor
- Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921-) painter
- Louise Bourgeois (1911-) (Lives in America) sculptor, other media
- Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) painter
- Daniel Buren (1938-) sculptor, painter
- Jean-Marc Bustamante (1952-) painter, sculptor, photographer
- Henri Cadiou (1906-1989) painter
- Allison Carmichael (1963) painter
- Amelie Chabannes (1974-) painter, sculptor
- Gaston Chaissac (1910-1964) painter, other media
- Robert Combas (1957-) painter
- Jean-Yves Couliou (1916-1995) painter
- Jose Da Silveira (created Formism) (1965-) (Lives in America) sculptor, painter, other media, writer, novelist, poet, playwright
- Michel De Caso (1956-) painter, sculptor
- Jacques de la Villeglé (1926-) other media (ripped posters)
- Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930-2002) sculptor
- Michel de Sereville (1922-2006)- painter, illustrator
- Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) (French, Russian origin) painter
- Daniel Dezeuze (1942-)other media
- Hervé Di Rosa (1959-) painter
- Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) painter
- Alexandre Elmaleh de Buenos (1927-2006) (French, Naturalized American) Impressionist Painter
- Bracha L. Ettinger (1948-) (Born in Tel Aviv) painter, photographer, new media, artist's books
- Robert Filliou (1926-1987) other media
- Bernard Frize (1954-) painter
- Gérard Fromanger (1939-) painter, other media
- Gérard Garouste (1946-) sculptor, painter, other media
- Alfred Georges Regner (1901-1987) Painter-Engraver
- Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) (Swiss, worked in Paris) sculptor, painter
- Raymond Hains (1926-2005) other media
- Simon Hantaï (1922-) (Born in Hungary) painter
- Hans Hartung (1904-1992) (Born in Germany) painter
- Jean Hélion (1904-1987) painter
- Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910-2007) photographer (Born in Hungary)
- Pierre Huyghe (1962-) media, film, video
- François Jacques Boeri (1929-) painter
- Jean Jacques Surian (1942-) (painter and ceramist, lives in Marseille)
- Yves Klein (1928-1962) painter
- Raphael Labro (1956-) painter, photographer, other media
- Pierre Laffillé (1938-) painter
- Andrey Lekarski (1940-) painter,sculptor, media artist (Bulgarian born)
- Claude-Max Lochu (1951-) painter
- Georges Mathieu (1921-) painter
- Jules Michel (1931-) (French lives in France) painter, sculptor
- François Morellet (1926-) painter
- Patrick Moya (1955-) painter, sculptor, media artist (see fr:Patrick Moya )
- Elle Nicolai (active since 1997) (lives in America), painter, photographer
- Orlan (1947-) performance artist, body artist
- François Ozenda (1923–1976) painter
- Zaven Paré (1961-) New media artist
- Jacques Pellegrin (painter) (1944-) painter
- Anne Poirier (1942-) painter, other media
- Patrick Poirier (1942-) painter, other media
- Martial Raysse (1936-) painter
- Claude Rutault (1941-) conceptualist, painter
- Alexis Ruyer (Ruyal) (1955-) painter
- Dominique Sanson (1949-) (French, lives and works in Ibiza, Spain) painter
- Denis Schneider (1946-)-painter
- Pierre Soulages (1919-) painter
- Pierre Tal-Coat (1905-1985) painter
- Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) (Naturalized American) painter
- Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) (Swiss) sculptor
- Jacques Toutain-Dorbec (1923-) (French, lives and work in Spain) painter
- Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951-) painter, sculptor, photographer, writer
- Andre Vandenbussche (1951-) painter, sculptor
- Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) (Born in Hungary) painter
- Ben Vautier (called "Ben") (dates?) painter, other media
- Pierre Wemaëre (1913-) painter
- Raymond Wintz (1884-1956) painter
- Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1934-2002) (son of Victor Vasarely ) painter
- Patrick Mimran (1956-) multimedia artist
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French photographers
See also List of photographers, Category:French photographers
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) — Inventor of Photography
- Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787-1851)
- Hippolyte Bayard (1807-1887)
- Charles Marville (1816-1879)
- Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820-1910)
- Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)
- Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857-1927)
- Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
- Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899-1984) (born in Hungary)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
- Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910-) photographer (Born in Hungary)
- Willy Ronis (1910-)
- Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)
- Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913-1951) (German, worked in France) photographer
- Marc Riboud (1923-)
- Georges Rousse (1947-) photographer
- Pierre et Gilles (Pierre: 1949, Gilles: 1953) photographers(active since 1976)
- Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951-)
- Bettina Rheims (1952-) photographer
- Ange Leccia (1952-) photographer, filmmaker
- Sophie Calle (1953-) other media, photographer
- Xavier Veilhan (1963-) photographer, other media
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See also
- European art history
- Art history
- History of Painting
- List of Spanish artists
- List of Bulgarian artists
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