List of French painters
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This is a list of French painters sorted alphabetically and by the century in which the artist was most active.
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- Edmond Aman-JeanEdmond Aman-JeanEdmond François Aman-Jean was a French symbolist painter, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923....
(1858–1936) - Eugène-Emmanuel Amaury-DuvalAmaury Duval (1808-1885)Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux Duval , better known by the pseudonym Amaury Duval, was a French painter. He was one of two sons of Amaury Duval and thus a nephew of the playwright Alexandre Pineux Duval.- Life :He was born in Montrouge...
(1808–1885) - Paul Anastasiu (1971–)
- Albert André (1869–1954)
- Charles AngrandCharles AngrandCharles Angrand 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 life and work:...
(1854–1926) - Alexandre AntignaAlexandre AntignaJean Pierre Alexandre Antigna was a French painter.-Career:Antigna was born in Orléans, France, where his earliest training took place, under a local painter, Francois Salmon...
(1817–1878) - ArcabasArcabasJean-Marie Pirot known as Arcabas, a name given by his pupils, is a French contemporary sacred artist.He studied in the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris and taught in the École des Beaux-Arts of Grenoble...
(1926–?) - Joseph AvedJoseph AvedJacques-André-Joseph Aved , also called le Camelot and Avet le Batave , was a French painter of the 18th century and one of the main French Rococo portraitists. He painted the Ottoman Empire ambassador to France in 1742, Mehmed Said Efendi.-Biography:His father was a physician and he was orphaned...
(1702–1766)
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- François Baron-Renouard (1918–)
- Jean BardinJean BardinJean Bardin, a French historical painter, born at Montbard in 1732, was a pupil of Lagrénée, the elder; and afterwards studied at Rome. He became a popular artist in France, and was admitted into the Academy in 1779. He was made director of the art school at Orléans in 1788. His subjects are partly...
(1732–1809) - Eugène Battaille (1817–?)
- Marcelle BergerolMarcelle BergerolMarcelle Bergerol was a member of the atelier of Edmond Heuzé, and enjoyed remarkable longevity as a painter, bringing to the canvas exceptional images of France, including Brittany, Quercy in the Dordogne region, and Paris, the City of lights.Marcelle Bergerol was considered a figurative...
(1900–1989) - Antoine BerjonAntoine BerjonAntoine Berjon was a French painter and designer, among the most important flower painters of 19th-century France...
(1754–1843) - Louis BéroudLouis BéroudLouis Béroud was a French painter of the late 19th, early 20th century. Some of his painting are visible at the Musée Carnavalet and The Louvre in Paris...
(1852–1930) - Eugène BoudinEugène BoudinEugène Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors.Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores...
(1824–1898) - William Bouguereau (1825–1905)
- Georges BraqueGeorges BraqueGeorges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.-Early Life:...
(1882–1963) - Geneviève Brossard de BeaulieuGenevieve Brossard de BeaulieuGeneviève Brossard de Beaulieu was a French painter. She was born at La Rochelle and studied painting under Jean-Baptiste Greuze. She established herself as a successful artist, specializing in historical and mythological genres and portraiture...
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c. 1770 - 1815)
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- Louis-Nicolas CabatLouis-Nicolas CabatLouis-Nicolas Cabat was a French landscape painter.He was one of the most illustrious students of Camille Flers...
(1812–1893) - Gustave CaillebotteGustave CaillebotteGustave Caillebotte was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group...
(1848–1894) - Robert CampinRobert CampinRobert Campin , now usually identified as the artist known as the Master of Flémalle, is usually considered the first great master of Early Netherlandish painting...
(1378–1445) - Eugène CarrièreEugène CarrièreEugène Anatole Carrière was a French Symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle period. His work is best known for its brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Picasso...
(1849–1906) - Albert-Ernest Carrier-BelleuseAlbert-Ernest Carrier-BelleuseAlbert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse was a French sculptor and painter.- Life :Carrier-Belleuse was a student of David d'Angers and briefly at the École des Beaux-Arts...
(1824–1887) - Louis-Robert Carrier-BelleuseLouis-Robert Carrier-BelleuseLouis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse was a French painter and sculptor.He was son and pupil of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. He designed the patterns of the Faïencerie from Choisy-le-Roi, where he was artistic director. He was also the sculptor of the Equestrian monument to General Manuel Belgrano....
(1848–1913) - Paul CézannePaul CézannePaul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...
(1839–1906) - Jean ChardinJean ChardinJean Chardin , born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.-Life and work:Chardin was born in...
(1643–1713) - Jean Siméon Chardin (1699–1779)
- François ClouetFrançois ClouetFrançois Clouet , son of Jean Clouet, was a French Renaissance miniaturist and painter, particularly known for his detailed portraits of the French ruling family.-Historical references:Clouet was born in Tours....
(1515–1572) - Jean ClouetJean ClouetJean Clouet was a miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance. He was the father of François Clouet.-Biography:Clouet was allegedly born in Brussels....
(1480–1541) - Charles-Michel-Ange ChalleCharles-Michel-Ange ChalleCharles-Michel-Ange Challe, a French painter, architect, and mathematician, was born in Paris in 1718. He studied under André, Lemoine, and Boucher, and subsequently visited Rome. A 'Sleeping Diana,' which he painted in 1744, and a 'Venus' by him are to be seen in Brunswick...
(1718–1778) - Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631–1681)
- Philippe de ChampaignePhilippe de ChampaignePhilippe de Champaigne was a Flemish-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school.-Early life:Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières...
(1602–1674) - Théodore ChassériauThéodore ChassériauThéodore Chassériau was a French romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.-Life and work:...
(1819–1856) - Antoine ChintreuilAntoine ChintreuilAntoine Chintreuil was a French landscape painter.He was born in Pont-de-Vaux, Ain and grew up in Bresse. In 1838 he moved to Paris, where he began studying under Paul Delaroche in 1842. The following year he met Corot, who influenced him profoundly by encouraging him to paint landscape en plein...
(1816–1873) - Léon CognietLéon CognietLéon Cogniet was a French historical and portrait painter.- Biography :Cogniet was born in Paris. In 1812, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at the same time as Delacroix and Géricault. In 1817 he won the Prix de Rome and was a resident at...
(1794–1880) - Fernand CormonFernand CormonFernand Cormon was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France....
(1845–1924) - Alphonse ColasAlphonse ColasAlphonse-Victor Colas was a French painter....
(1818–1887) - Nicolas ColombelNicolas ColombelNicolas Colombel, a French painter, was born at Sotteville, near Rouen, about 1644. He went to Rome when quite young, and remainedthere until 1692, forming his style by a study of the works of Raphael and of Nicolas Poussin...
(1646–1717) - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875)
- Pierre Auguste CotPierre Auguste CotPierre Auguste Cot was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school.-Biography:He was born in Bédarieux, Hérault and initially studied at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse before going to Paris. He studied under Leon Cogniet, Alexandre Cabanel and William-Adolphe Bouguereau...
(1837–1883) - Charles CottetCharles CottetCharles Cottet , French painter, was born at Le Puy-en-Velay and died in Paris. A famed post-impressionist, Cottet is known for his dark, evocative painting of rural Brittany and seascapes...
(1863–1925) - Amédée CourbetAmédée CourbetAnatole-Amédée-Prosper Courbet was a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War .-Early years:...
(1827–1885) - Gustave CourbetGustave CourbetJean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...
(1819–1877) - Jean Cousin the ElderJean Cousin the ElderJean Cousin 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:...
(1500–c. 1593) - Jean Cousin the Younger (c. 1522–1595)
- Thomas CoutureThomas CoutureThomas Couture was an influential French history painter and teacher. Couture taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and J-N Sylvestre.-Life:He was born at Senlis, Oise, France...
(1815–1879)
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- Charles-François DaubignyCharles-François DaubignyCharles-François Daubigny was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism....
(1817–1878) - Alexandre-Gabriel DecampsAlexandre-Gabriel Decamps]Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was a French painter.He was born in Paris. In his youth he travelled in the East, and reproduced Oriental life and scenery with a bold fidelity to nature that puzzled conventional critics...
(1803–1860) - Edgar DegasEdgar DegasEdgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist...
(1834–1917) - Adrien DauzatsAdrien DauzatsAdrien Dauzats, a French landscape and genre painter, was born at Bordeaux in 1804. He became a pupil of Gué, and afterwards travelled in France, Spain, Egypt, and Palestine, for the purpose of making illustrations for Baron Taylor's 'Voyages pittoresques et romantiques de l'ancienne Prance,'...
(1804–1868) - Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...
(1748–1825) - Johan Stephan Decker (1784–1844)
- Jean-Baptiste-Henri DeshaysJean-Baptiste-Henri DeshaysJean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays or Deshayes was a French painter of religious and mythological subjects.-Life:Deshays was born in Colleville. His first training was under his father, the minor Rouen painter Jean-Dominique Deshays, he then spent a little time under Jean-Baptiste Descamps at his Ecole...
(1729–1765) - Eugène DelacroixEugène DelacroixFerdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...
(1798–1863) - Paul Delaroche (1797–1856)
- Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828–1891)
- Georges Demanche (1870–1941)
- Maurice DenisMaurice DenisMaurice Denis was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art.-Childhood and education:...
(1870–1943) - Auguste Denis-Brunaud (1903–1985)
- Édouard DetailleÉdouard DetailleJean Baptiste Édouard Detaille , was a French Academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail....
(1848–1912) - Étienne DinetÉtienne DinetAlphonse-Étienne Dinet, also known as Nasr'Eddine Dinet was a French orientalist painter.-Biography:Dinet was born the son of a prominent French judge...
(1861–1929) - Narcisse Virgilio DíazNarcisse Virgilio DíazNarcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña was a French painter of the Barbizon school.Diaz was born in Bordeaux to Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his early years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live...
(1807–1876) - Georges DufrénoyGeorges DufrénoyGeorges Dufrénoy was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism.-Biography:He was born in Thiais, France. His family lived at 2 Place des Vosges in Paris in a historic 17th century building in which he lived all his life...
(1870–1943) - Jean Dupuy (1925–)
- Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1725–1802)
- Jules DupréJules DupréJules Dupré , French painter, was one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré is the exponent of her tragic and dramatic aspects.Dupré exhibited first at the Salon in 1831, and...
(1811–1899)
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- Charles Eschard (1748–1810)
- François-Émile Ehrmann (1833–1910)
- Bracha L. EttingerBracha L. EttingerBracha L. Ettinger also known as Bracha Ettinger, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Hebrew: ברכה אטינגר, ברכה ליכטנברג-אטינגר, is an artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst. Bracha L. Ettinger is a Professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...
(1948–) - Hubert-Denis Etcheverry (1867–1950)
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- Camille Flers (1802–1868)
- Émile FriantÉmile FriantÉmile Friant was a French artist. Friant was born in the commune of Dieuze, however he was later forced to flee to Nancy. Throughout his lifetime, his paintings were featured at the Salon. Friant died after a fall in Paris in 1932.- Early life :Friant was born in the commune of Dieuze in 1863...
(1863–1932) - Lucien Fontanarosa (1912–1975)
- Jean FouquetJean FouquetJean Fouquet was a preeminent French painter of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience at first hand the Italian Early...
(1425–1481) - Jean-Honoré FragonardJean-Honoré FragonardJean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings , of which only five...
(1732–1806) - Charles-Théodore Frère (1814–1886)
- Pierre-Édouard Frère (1819–1886)
- Eugène FromentinEugène FromentinEugène Fromentin was a French painter and writer.He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter...
(1820–1876)
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- Paul GauguinPaul GauguinEugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer...
(1848–1903) - François GérardFrançois GerardFrançois Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard was a French painter born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador. His mother was Italian. As a baron of the Empire he is sometimes referred to as Baron Gérard.-Life:François Gérard was born in Rome, on 12 March 1770, to...
(1770–1837) - Théodore GéricaultThéodore GéricaultJean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings...
(1791–1824) - Jean-Léon GérômeJean-Léon GérômeJean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.-Life:Jean-Léon Gérôme was born...
(1824–1904) - Georges GimelGeorges GimelGeorges Gimel , 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 enamel painter....
(1898–1962) - Jean-Baptiste GreuzeJean-Baptiste GreuzeJean-Baptiste Greuze was a French painter.-Early life:He was born at Tournus, Saône-et-Loire. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, were encouraged by a...
(1725–1805) - Antoine-Jean GrosAntoine-Jean GrosBaron Antoine-Jean Gros , also known as Jean-Antoine Gros, was both a French History and neoclassical painter.-Early life and training:...
(1771–1835) - Patrick Guallino (1943–)
- Guillaumin (1841–1927)
- Alvaro GuillotAlvaro GuillotAlvaro Guillot was a French artist born in Uruguay. He was a notable exponent of the "new surrealist school".- External links :***...
(1931-2010) - Alain GodonAlain Godon-Biography:Alain Godon was born 1 November 1964 in Bourges, France andlearned to draw at the age of 11 in Achicourt, France at the side of his artist uncle.In 1985 he moved to Paris and then to Brighton earning his living as a pavement graffiti artist....
(1964)
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- Pierre LaffilléPierre LaffilléPierre Laffillé was a French painter, born at Envermeu, Seine-Maritime.- Biography :Pierre Laffillé studied at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1956 then studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1959 to 1961. His first exhibition was in 1960 at Dieppe...
(1938–) - Henri-Martin Lamotte (1899–1967)
- Langlois de SézanneLanglois de SézanneClaude Louis Langlois , known as Langlois de Sézanne, was a French portraitist and pastel artist. His portrait of Madame Morel is held by the Musée Antoine Vivenel, Compiègne....
(1757–1845) - Espérance Langlois (1805–1864)
- Eugène Langlois
- Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777–1837)
- Jean-Charles LangloisJean-Charles LangloisJean-Charles Langlois, known as The Colonel was a French soldier and painter.-Biography:Langlois was born in Beaumont-en-Auge...
(1789–1870) - Polyclès Langlois (1813–1872)
- Théophile Langlois de Chèvreville (1803–1845)
- Gaston La ToucheGaston La ToucheGaston La Touche was a French post-impressionist painter, draughtsman and pastellist. He was elected member of Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1890.-External links:...
(1854–1913) - Jules Laurens (1825–1901)
- Jean-Paul LaurensJean-Paul LaurensJean-Paul Laurens , was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.Born in Fourquevaux, he was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida...
(1838–1921) - Andrée LavieilleAndrée LavieilleAndrée Lavieille was a French painter.Daughter and grand-daughter of painters , Andrée Lavieille entered École des Beaux-Arts in 1908. Subjects of her paintings were still lifes, interiors and especially landscapes...
(1887-1960) - Eugène LavieilleEugène LavieilleEugène Lavieille was a French painter.-Biography:His father was a tapestry maker, and he was the younger brother of Jacques Adrien Lavieille , who will be a famous wood engraver. Eugène Lavieille began to work as a decorator painter...
(1820–1889) - Marie Adrien LavieilleMarie Adrien LavieilleMarie Adrien Lavieille , born Marie Petit, was a French painter. She was a pupil of her father, Jean-Jacques Petit, and of Joseph Blanc....
(1852-1911) - Charles Le BrunCharles Le BrunCharles Le Brun , a French painter and art theorist, became the all-powerful, peerless master of 17th-century French art.-Biography:-Early life and training:...
(1619–1690) - Claude LefebvreClaude Lefebvre (artist)Claude Lefebvre was a French painter and engraver.-Early life:Lefebvre was born at Fontainebleau. He studied art under Eustache Le Sueur and Charles Le Brun at Fontainebleau.-Career:...
(1633–1675) - Fernand LégerFernand LégerJoseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style...
(1881–1955) - Le NainLe NainThe three Le Nain brothers were painters in 17th-century France: Antoine Le Nain , Louis Le Nain , and Mathieu Le Nain...
brothers (c.1599–1677) - Louis Le Nain (1593–1648)
- Charles-Amable LenoirCharles-Amable LenoirCharles-Amable Lenoir was a French painter. Like his mentor, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, he was an academic painter and painted realistic portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes...
(1860–1926) - Pierre Le TellierPierre Le TellierPierre Le Tellier was a French painter. Nephew and student of Poussin, Pierre Le Tellier spent 14 years at his side in Rome....
(1614–1702) - Eustache Lesueur (1617–1655)
- Louis Levacher (1934–1983)
- Jacques LinardJacques LinardJacques Linard was a French painter of the first half of the 17th century. He painted still-lives. He was baptised on the 6th of September, 1597. His first records of being of artist was in the 1620s. He was married in 1626 to the daughter of a Parisian Master Painter...
(1597–1645) - Louis Michel van Loo (1707–1771)
- Louis Anselme Longa (1809–1869)
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- Richard Maguet (1896–1940)
- Jacques MajorelleJacques MajorelleJacques Majorelle , son of the celebrated Art Nouveau furniture designer Louis Majorelle, was a French painter. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy in 1901 and later at the Académie Julian in Paris with Schommer and Royer.In 1919 he went to Marrakech, Morocco to recover from heart...
(1886–1962) - Henri MatisseHenri MatisseHenri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...
(1869–1954) - Aristide MaillolAristide MaillolAristide Maillol or Aristides Maillol was a French Catalan sculptor and painter.-Biography:...
(1861–1944) - Édouard ManetÉdouard ManetÉdouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....
(1832–1883) - Prosper Marilhat (1811–1847)
- Henri Mauduit (1917–2007)
- Pierre MignardPierre MignardPierre Mignard , called "Le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter...
(1612–1695) - Jean-François MilletJean-François MilletJean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France...
(1814–1875) - Claude MonetClaude MonetClaude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...
(1840–1926) - Nicolas-André MonsiauNicolas-André MonsiauNicolas-André Monsiau was a French history painter and a refined draughtsman who turned to book illustration to supplement his income when the French Revolution disrupted patronage...
(1754–1837) - Berthe MorisotBerthe MorisotBerthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.In 1864, she exhibited for the first...
(1841–1895) - Gustave MoreauGustave MoreauGustave Moreau was a French Symbolist painter whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists.- Biography :Moreau was born in Paris. His father, Louis Jean Marie...
(1826–1898) - Henri-Paul MotteHenri-Paul MotteHenri-Paul Motte was a 19th-century French artist and painter from Paris.He is best known for his work of the Siege of La Rochelle, a depiction of Cardinal Richelieu in battle in the 17th century. He completed the painting in 1881....
(1846–1922)
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- Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de NeuvilleAlphonse-Marie-Adolphe de NeuvilleAlphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville was a French Academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu War and portraits of soldiers. Some of his works have been collected by...
(1836–1885) - Jean Nicolle (1610–c. 1650)
- Louis Nallard (1918–)
- Louis Nattero (1870–1915)
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- Gen PaulGen PaulGen Paul , 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 only ten years old and Gen Paul was trained to work in decorative furnishings...
(1895–1975) - Fernand PelezFernand PelezFernand Pelez was a French painter of Spanish origin who worked in Paris. Pelez portrayed social issues in a realistic style.- Biography :...
(1843–1913) - Jacques PellegrinJacques Pellegrin (painter)Jacques Pellegrin is a French painter.-Biography:Jacques Pellegrin paints portraits, landscapes and still lifes. He started to paint at age eight. When he was eleven years old, he carried off the first prize from the Aix-en-Provence city hall.His style connected first to classic and realist art...
(1944–) - José Pereira (1940–)
- Edmond Marie Petitjean (1844–1925)
- Hippolyte Petitjean (1854–1929)
- Alexis Peyrotte (1699–1769)
- François-Édouard PicotFrançois-Édouard PicotFrançois-Edouard Picot was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.-Life:Born in Paris, Picot won the Prix de Rome painting scholarship in 1813...
(1786–1868) - Henri-Pierre PicouHenri-Pierre PicouHenri-Pierre Picou was a French painter born in Nantes. His oeuvre began with portraits and classical historical subject matter but he later moved on to allegorical and mythological themes....
(1824–1895) - Henri Pinta (1856–1944)
- Camille PissarroCamille PissarroCamille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas . His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms...
(1830–1903) - Nicolas PoussinNicolas PoussinNicolas Poussin was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of the 17th century...
(1594–1665) - Paul Preyat (1892–1968)
- Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPierre Puvis de ChavannesPierre Puvis de Chavannes was a French painter, who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists.-Life:...
(1824–1898)
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- Maurice Rocher (1918–1995)
- Édouard Ravel-de-Malval
- Yves Regaldi (1956–?)
- Jean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter.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 Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin...
(1754–1829) - Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
- Eustache RestoutEustache RestoutEustache Restout was a French architect, engraver, painter and Premonstratensian canon regular, belonging to the artistic Restout dynasty. At his death he was sub-prior of abbaye Saint-Martin de Mondaye - he had produced the plans on which that monastery was rebuilt and painted several paintings...
(1655–1743) - Jacques RestoutJacques Restoutthumb|250px|right|Jacques Restout was a French painter of the Restout dynasty and a Premonstratensian canon regular. Born in Caen, he was a student of Le Tellier and became prior of the abbaye de Moncets near Reims.-Works:* La Réforme de la Peinture, Caen, J...
(1650–1701) - Marc RestoutMarc RestoutMarc Restout was a French painter. The son of Marguerin Restout, he belonged to the famous Restout dynasty of painters. He was a prolific painter and won a major reputation in Flanders, Holland and Rome, having accompanied Poussin to Rome in 1642...
(1616–1684) - Thomas RestoutThomas RestoutThomas Restout was a French painter. The son of Marc Restout, he belonged to the Restout dynasty of painters and was mainly a portraitist.-References:...
(1671–1754) - Philippe Richard (1962)
- Édouard Rosset-Granger (1853–1934)
- Georges RouaultGeorges RouaultGeorges Henri Rouault[p] was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching.-Childhood and education:Rouault was born in Paris into a poor family...
(1871–1958) - Henri RousseauHenri RousseauHenri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier , a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector...
(1844–1910) - Théodore RousseauThéodore RousseauPierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau , French painter of the Barbizon school, was born in Paris, of a bourgeois family.-Youth:At first he received a business training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting...
(1812–1867) - Henri Royer (1869–1938)
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- René SchützenbergerRené SchützenbergerRené Schützenberger , also known as Paul René Schützenberger, was a French painter.- Biography :...
(1860–1916) - Jean Seignemartin (1848–1875)
- Georges Seurat (1859–1891)
- Ibrahim ShahdaIbrahim ShahdaIbrahim Shahda was a figurative French painter born in Egypt.- Biography :...
(1929–1991) - Paul SignacPaul SignacPaul Signac was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style.-Biography:Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on 11 November 1863...
(1863–1935) - Jacques StellaJacques Stella-Life:Stella was born in Lyon. His father was François Stella, a painter and merchant of Flemish origin, but he died too soon to train Jacques in painting. Jacques's siblings included François , Françoise and Madeleine...
(1596–1657) - Tancrède SynaveTancrède SynaveTancrède Synave was a French painter. He was born in 1870 and died in 1936. He is known for his portraits of women in the Parisian high society.-Sources and links:* Tancrède Synave's artworks in auctions.* Photos of Tancrède Synave's paintings....
(1870–1936) - Jean-Jacques Scherrer (1855–1916)
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- Nicolas François Octave Tassaert (1800–1874)
- Henri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern...
(1864–1901) - Georges William ThornleyGeorges William ThornleyGeorges William Thornley was a French painter and printmaker.A student of the French landscape painter Eugène Ciceri and Edmond Yon, Thornley became a successful artist remembered for his seascapes from Normandy and his landscapes from the French and Italian Rivieras...
(1857-1935) - Constant TroyonConstant TroyonConstant Troyon , French painter, was born in Sèvres, near Paris, where his father was connected with the famous manufactory of porcelain....
(1810–1865)
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- Paul Vayson (1842–1911)
- Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789)
- Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842)
- Jean-Marie Villard (1828–1899)
- Simon VouetSimon VouetSimon Vouet was a French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France.-Life:...
(1590–1649) - Édouard VuillardÉdouard VuillardJean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.-Early years and education:...
(1868–1940)
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- Antoine WatteauAntoine WatteauJean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement...
(1684–1721) - François Willi Wendt (1909-1970)
- Pierre-André De Wisches (1909–1997)
Sixteenth century
- Jean ClouetJean ClouetJean Clouet was a miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance. He was the father of François Clouet.-Biography:Clouet was allegedly born in Brussels....
(1480–1541) - Corneille de LyonCorneille de LyonCorneille de Lyon was a Dutch painter of portraits who was active from 1533 until his death in Lyon, France...
(1500–1575) - Jean Cousin the ElderJean Cousin the ElderJean Cousin 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:...
(1500–c. 1593) - François ClouetFrançois ClouetFrançois Clouet , son of Jean Clouet, was a French Renaissance miniaturist and painter, particularly known for his detailed portraits of the French ruling family.-Historical references:Clouet was born in Tours....
(1515–1572) - Jean Cousin the Younger (c. 1522–1595)
Seventeenth century
- Simon VouetSimon VouetSimon Vouet was a French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France.-Life:...
(1590–1649) - Louis Le Nain (1593–1648)
- Nicolas PoussinNicolas PoussinNicolas Poussin was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of the 17th century...
(1594–1665) - Jacques StellaJacques Stella-Life:Stella was born in Lyon. His father was François Stella, a painter and merchant of Flemish origin, but he died too soon to train Jacques in painting. Jacques's siblings included François , Françoise and Madeleine...
(1596–1657) - Jacques LinardJacques LinardJacques Linard was a French painter of the first half of the 17th century. He painted still-lives. He was baptised on the 6th of September, 1597. His first records of being of artist was in the 1620s. He was married in 1626 to the daughter of a Parisian Master Painter...
(1597–1645) - Sebastian StoskopffSebastian StoskopffSebastian Stoskopff was an Alsatian painter. He is considered one of the most important German still life painters of his time. His works, which were rediscovered after 1930, portray goblets, cups and especially glasses...
(1597–1657) - Le NainLe NainThe three Le Nain brothers were painters in 17th-century France: Antoine Le Nain , Louis Le Nain , and Mathieu Le Nain...
brothers (c.1599–1677) - Philippe de ChampaignePhilippe de ChampaignePhilippe de Champaigne was a Flemish-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school.-Early life:Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières...
(1602–1674) - Jean Nicolle (1610–c.1650)
- Pierre MignardPierre MignardPierre Mignard , called "Le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter...
(1612–1695) - Daniel HalléDaniel HalléDaniel Hallé was a French painter.Studying painting in his birthplace, he was apprenticed there on 4 November 1631. He produced a Multiplication of the Loaves and Martyrdom of Saint-Symphorien...
(1614–1675) - Pierre Le TellierPierre Le TellierPierre Le Tellier was a French painter. Nephew and student of Poussin, Pierre Le Tellier spent 14 years at his side in Rome....
(1614–1702) - Marc RestoutMarc RestoutMarc Restout was a French painter. The son of Marguerin Restout, he belonged to the famous Restout dynasty of painters. He was a prolific painter and won a major reputation in Flanders, Holland and Rome, having accompanied Poussin to Rome in 1642...
(1616–1684) - Eustache Lesueur (1617–1655)
- Charles Le BrunCharles Le BrunCharles Le Brun , a French painter and art theorist, became the all-powerful, peerless master of 17th-century French art.-Biography:-Early life and training:...
(1619–1690) - Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631–1681)
- Jean ChardinJean ChardinJean Chardin , born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.-Life and work:Chardin was born in...
(1643–1713) - Jean JouvenetJean JouvenetJean-Baptiste Jouvenet was a French painter, especially of religious subjects.He was born into an artistic family in Rouen...
(1644–1717) - François de TroyFrançois de TroyFrançois de Troy 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:...
(1645–1730) - Nicolas ColombelNicolas ColombelNicolas Colombel, a French painter, was born at Sotteville, near Rouen, about 1644. He went to Rome when quite young, and remainedthere until 1692, forming his style by a study of the works of Raphael and of Nicolas Poussin...
(1646–1717) - Jacques RestoutJacques Restoutthumb|250px|right|Jacques Restout was a French painter of the Restout dynasty and a Premonstratensian canon regular. Born in Caen, he was a student of Le Tellier and became prior of the abbaye de Moncets near Reims.-Works:* La Réforme de la Peinture, Caen, J...
(1650–1701) - Claude Guy Hallé (1652–1736)
- Eustache RestoutEustache RestoutEustache Restout was a French architect, engraver, painter and Premonstratensian canon regular, belonging to the artistic Restout dynasty. At his death he was sub-prior of abbaye Saint-Martin de Mondaye - he had produced the plans on which that monastery was rebuilt and painted several paintings...
(1655–1743) - Louis de BoullogneLouis de BoullogneLouis de Boullogne II , known as Boullogne fils, was a French painter.-Life:The brother of Bon Boullogne, their father Louis Boullogne feared rivalry between the two brothers if Louis the younger also became a painter and so at first opposed his wish to become a painter...
(1657–1733)
Eighteenth century
- Nicolas Bertin (1667–1736)
- Thomas RestoutThomas RestoutThomas Restout was a French painter. The son of Marc Restout, he belonged to the Restout dynasty of painters and was mainly a portraitist.-References:...
(1671–1754) - Antoine WatteauAntoine WatteauJean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement...
(1684–1721) - Jean-Baptiste OudryJean-Baptiste OudryJean-Baptiste Oudry 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.-Biography:...
(1686–1755) - Jean Siméon Chardin (1699–1779)
- Étienne Jeaurat (1699–1789)
- Joseph AvedJoseph AvedJacques-André-Joseph Aved , also called le Camelot and Avet le Batave , was a French painter of the 18th century and one of the main French Rococo portraitists. He painted the Ottoman Empire ambassador to France in 1742, Mehmed Said Efendi.-Biography:His father was a physician and he was orphaned...
(1702–1766) - François BoucherFrançois BoucherFrançois Boucher was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture...
(1703–1770) - Maurice Quentin de La TourMaurice Quentin de La TourMaurice Quentin de La Tour was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour.-Biography:...
(1704–1788) - Louis Michel van Loo (1707–1771)
- Noël HalléNoël HalléNoël Hallé was a French painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was born into a family of artists, the son of Claude-Guy Hallé....
(1711–1781) - Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1725–1802)
- Jean-Baptiste GreuzeJean-Baptiste GreuzeJean-Baptiste Greuze was a French painter.-Early life:He was born at Tournus, Saône-et-Loire. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, were encouraged by a...
(1725–1805) - Michel-Bruno Bellengé (1726–1793)
- Jean-Baptiste-Henri DeshaysJean-Baptiste-Henri DeshaysJean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays or Deshayes was a French painter of religious and mythological subjects.-Life:Deshays was born in Colleville. His first training was under his father, the minor Rouen painter Jean-Dominique Deshays, he then spent a little time under Jean-Baptiste Descamps at his Ecole...
(1729–1765) - Jean-Honoré FragonardJean-Honoré FragonardJean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings , of which only five...
(1732–1806) - Jean BardinJean BardinJean Bardin, a French historical painter, born at Montbard in 1732, was a pupil of Lagrénée, the elder; and afterwards studied at Rome. He became a popular artist in France, and was admitted into the Academy in 1779. He was made director of the art school at Orléans in 1788. His subjects are partly...
(1732–1809) - Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...
(1748–1825) - Charles Eschard (1748–1810)
- Jean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter.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 Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin...
(1754–1829) - Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842)
Nineteenth century
- Thomas Henry (1766–1836)
- Dominique Ingres (1780–1867)
- Johan Stephan Decker (1784–1844)
- Théodore GéricaultThéodore GéricaultJean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings...
(1791–1824) - Jean-Baptiste Louis GrosJean-Baptiste Louis GrosJean-Baptiste Louis Gros was a French ambassador and one of the first daguerrotypists. Baron and French chargé d'affaires in Bogotá , Athens and Ambassador to London - during which period he also travelled to China and Japan in 1857 and 1858 — he produced many famous daguerrotypes — chief among...
(1793–1870) - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875)
- Eugène DelacroixEugène DelacroixFerdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...
(1798–1863) - Alexandre-Gabriel DecampsAlexandre-Gabriel Decamps]Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was a French painter.He was born in Paris. In his youth he travelled in the East, and reproduced Oriental life and scenery with a bold fidelity to nature that puzzled conventional critics...
(1803–1860) - Théophile Langlois de Chèvreville (1803–1845)
- Narcisse Virgilio DíazNarcisse Virgilio DíazNarcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña was a French painter of the Barbizon school.Diaz was born in Bordeaux to Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his early years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live...
(1807–1876) - Théodore RousseauThéodore RousseauPierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau , French painter of the Barbizon school, was born in Paris, of a bourgeois family.-Youth:At first he received a business training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting...
(1812–1867) - Jean-François MilletJean-François MilletJean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France...
(1814–1875) - Charles-François DaubignyCharles-François DaubignyCharles-François Daubigny was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism....
(1817–1878) - Théodore ChassériauThéodore ChassériauThéodore Chassériau was a French romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.-Life and work:...
(1819–1856) - Gustave CourbetGustave CourbetJean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...
(1819–1877) - Henri-Pierre PicouHenri-Pierre PicouHenri-Pierre Picou was a French painter born in Nantes. His oeuvre began with portraits and classical historical subject matter but he later moved on to allegorical and mythological themes....
(1824–1895) - Eugène BoudinEugène BoudinEugène Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors.Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores...
(1824–1898) - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPierre Puvis de ChavannesPierre Puvis de Chavannes was a French painter, who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists.-Life:...
(1824–1898) - William Bouguereau (1825–1905)
- Gustave MoreauGustave MoreauGustave Moreau was a French Symbolist painter whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists.- Biography :Moreau was born in Paris. His father, Louis Jean Marie...
(1826–1898) - Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828–1891)
- Jules Jacques Veyrassat (1828–1893)
- Camille PissarroCamille PissarroCamille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas . His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms...
(1830–1903) - Édouard ManetÉdouard ManetÉdouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....
(1832–1883) - Edgar DegasEdgar DegasEdgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist...
(1834–1917) - Jean-Paul LaurensJean-Paul LaurensJean-Paul Laurens , was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.Born in Fourquevaux, he was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida...
(1838–1921) - Paul CézannePaul CézannePaul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...
(1839–1906) - Claude MonetClaude MonetClaude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...
(1840–1926) - Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
- Frédéric BazilleFrédéric BazilleJean Frédéric Bazille was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air....
(1841–1870) - Berthe MorisotBerthe MorisotBerthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.In 1864, she exhibited for the first...
(1841–1895) - Armand GuillauminArmand GuillauminArmand Guillaumin , was a French impressionist painter and lithographer.Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons. He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse in 1861...
(1841–1927) - Henri RousseauHenri RousseauHenri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier , a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector...
(1844–1910) - Edmond Marie Petitjean (1844–1925)
- Gustave CaillebotteGustave CaillebotteGustave Caillebotte was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group...
(1848–1894) - Paul GauguinPaul GauguinEugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer...
(1848–1903) - Charles AngrandCharles AngrandCharles Angrand 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 life and work:...
(1854–1926) - Hippolyte Petitjean (1854–1929)
- Henri Pinta (1856–1944)
- Georges Seurat (1859–1891)
- Charles-Amable LenoirCharles-Amable LenoirCharles-Amable Lenoir was a French painter. Like his mentor, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, he was an academic painter and painted realistic portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes...
(1860–1926) - Henri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern...
(1864–1901)
Twentieth century
- Aristide MaillolAristide MaillolAristide Maillol or Aristides Maillol was a French Catalan sculptor and painter.-Biography:...
(1861–1944) - Paul SignacPaul SignacPaul Signac was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style.-Biography:Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on 11 November 1863...
(1863–1935) - Pierre BonnardPierre BonnardPierre Bonnard was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of Les Nabis.-Biography:...
(1867–1947) - Édouard VuillardÉdouard VuillardJean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.-Early years and education:...
(1868–1940) - Henri Royer (1869–1938)
- Henri MatisseHenri MatisseHenri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...
(1869–1954) - Tancrède SynaveTancrède SynaveTancrède Synave was a French painter. He was born in 1870 and died in 1936. He is known for his portraits of women in the Parisian high society.-Sources and links:* Tancrède Synave's artworks in auctions.* Photos of Tancrède Synave's paintings....
(1870–1936) - Maurice DenisMaurice DenisMaurice Denis was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art.-Childhood and education:...
(1870–1943) - Georges DufrénoyGeorges DufrénoyGeorges Dufrénoy was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism.-Biography:He was born in Thiais, France. His family lived at 2 Place des Vosges in Paris in a historic 17th century building in which he lived all his life...
(1870–1943) - Georges RouaultGeorges RouaultGeorges Henri Rouault[p] was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching.-Childhood and education:Rouault was born in Paris into a poor family...
(1871–1958) - Fernand LégerFernand LégerJoseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style...
(1881–1955) - Eugène LavieilleEugène LavieilleEugène Lavieille was a French painter.-Biography:His father was a tapestry maker, and he was the younger brother of Jacques Adrien Lavieille , who will be a famous wood engraver. Eugène Lavieille began to work as a decorator painter...
(1882–1889) - Georges BraqueGeorges BraqueGeorges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.-Early Life:...
(1882–1963) - Jacques MajorelleJacques MajorelleJacques Majorelle , son of the celebrated Art Nouveau furniture designer Louis Majorelle, was a French painter. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy in 1901 and later at the Académie Julian in Paris with Schommer and Royer.In 1919 he went to Marrakech, Morocco to recover from heart...
(1886–1962) - Richard Maguet (1896–1940)
- Jean CocteauJean CocteauJean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
(1899–1963) - Jean DubuffetJean DubuffetJean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.-Life and work:Dubuffet was...
(1901–1985) - Jean Bazaine (1904–2001)
- Henri CadiouHenri CadiouHenri Cadiou was a French realist painter and lithographer known for his work in trompe-l'oeil paintings. He is credited with being a founder of the l’école de la réalité in 1949...
(1906–1989) - François Willi Wendt (1909-1970)
- Pierre-André De Wisches (1909–1997)
- Maurice BoitelMaurice BoitelMaurice Boitel Maurice Boitel Maurice Boitel (July 31, 1919 – August 11, 2007 in Audresselles (Pas-de-Calais), was a French painter.-Artistic life:Maurice Boitel belonged to the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" ("Young Picture") of the School of Paris, with painters like Bernard Buffet, Yves...
(1919–2007) - ArcabasArcabasJean-Marie Pirot known as Arcabas, a name given by his pupils, is a French contemporary sacred artist.He studied in the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris and taught in the École des Beaux-Arts of Grenoble...
(1926–?) - Georges Oudot (1928–2004)
- Alvaro GuillotAlvaro GuillotAlvaro Guillot was a French artist born in Uruguay. He was a notable exponent of the "new surrealist school".- External links :***...
(1931–) - Jacques PellegrinJacques PellegrinJacques Pellegrin was a French zoologist.Pellegrin was born in Paris, and studied natural history. In 1894 he became assistant chairman of zoology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, replacing Léon Vaillant .He got his doctorates in medicine and science...
(1944–) - Bracha L. EttingerBracha L. EttingerBracha L. Ettinger also known as Bracha Ettinger, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Hebrew: ברכה אטינגר, ברכה ליכטנברג-אטינגר, is an artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst. Bracha L. Ettinger is a Professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...
(1948–)
See also
:Category:French painters- List of French artists—including all visual and plastic arts
- List of French engravers