LIST OF FRENCH ARTISTS


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). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of . See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French Cinema and French Culture.

Contents
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Seventeenth century
Eighteenth century
Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism)
Nineteenth century (Impressionism to Fauvism)
Twentieth century (Pre World War II)
Twentieth century (Post World War II)
French photographers
See also

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

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 (c.1395-1459) sculptor

Simon Marmion (c.1420-1489) Illuminations

Jean Fouquet (1425-1481) 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 (1490-1561) 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.1559-1616) 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

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 Lorraine (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

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

François Girardon (1628-1715) sculptor

Charles de la Fosse (1636-1716) painter

Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720) sculptor

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

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

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

François Lemoyne (1688-1737) painter

Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) painter

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

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

Jacques Louis David (1748-1825) painter

Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) painter

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

Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829)

Pierre Prudhon (1758-1823) painter

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) photographer

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

François Rude (1784-1855) sculptor

Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787-1851) photographer

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 Bellange (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

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

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

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902) painter

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

Edouard 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

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

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

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

Maurice Denis (1870-1943) painter

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 (1878-1941) (Polish, worked in France)

Francis Picabia (1879-1953) painter

André Derain (1880-1954) painter

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

Louis Marcoussis (Louis Markus) (1883-1941) (Born in Poland) painter

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

Henri Michaux (1899-1984) (Belgian) painter

Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899-1984) (born in Hungary) photographer

Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) (Naturalized American) painter

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) painter

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) (Swiss, worked in Paris) sculptor, painter

Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) (French, Born in Germany) sculptor, photographer, engraver

Alfred Georges Regner (1901-1987) Painter-Engraver

Twentieth century (Post World War II)


See also Modern art

Arman (Armand Fernandez) (1928-2005) sculptor

Constantine Andreou (1917 - ) (Greek, Brazilian born) painter, sculptor

Serge Arto (1959-) painter,sculptor, photographer,media artist

Georges Badin (1927-) painter

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

César Baldaccini (called "César") (1921-1998) sculptor

Gilles Balmet (1979-) Video artist, painter, photographer and other media

Yaruch Bann (1931) sculptor, painter

Vanilla Beer (1953) painter, daughter of
Anthony Stafford Beer

Ben Vautier (called “Ben”) (dates?) painter, other media

Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen) (1957- ) media artist

Thierry Bisch (1953-) painter

François Jacques Boeri (1929-) 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

Henri Cadiou (1906-1989) painter

Allison Carmichael (1963) painter

Michel De Caso (1956-) painter, sculptor

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

Hervé Di Rosa (1959-) painter

Robert Filliou (1926-1987) other media

Bernard Frize (1954-) painter

Gérard Fromanger (1939-) painter, other media

Gérard Garouste (1946-) sculptor, painter, other media

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)

Yves Klein (1928-1962) painter

Georges Mathieu (1921- ) painter

François Morellet (1926- ) painter

Patrick Moya (1955-) painter, sculptor, media artist (see )

Elle Nicolai (active since 1997) (lives in America), painter, photographer

François Ozenda (1923–1976) painter

Zaven Paré (1961-) New media artist

Anne Poirier (1942- ) painter, other media

Patrick Poirier (1942- ) painter, other media

Martial Raysse (1936-) painter

Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930-2002) sculptor

Dominique Sanson (1949 - ) (French, lives and works in Ibiza, Spain) painter

Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) (French, Russian origin) painter

Jean Jacques Surian (1942-) (painter and ceramist, lives in Marseille)

Pierre Soulages (1919- ) painter

Pierre Tal-Coat (1905-1985) 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

Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) (Born in Hungary) painter

Jacques de la Villeglé (1926-) other media (ripped posters)

Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1934-2002) (son of Victor Vasarely) painter

Jules Michel (1931- ) (French lives in France) painter, sculptor

French photographers


See also List of 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)

Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)

Willy Ronis (1910-)

Marc Riboud (1923-)

Georges Rousse (1947-)

Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951-)

Vincent Gruyer (1964-)

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

Georges Rousse (1947-) photographer

Sophie Calle (1953-) other media, photographer

Bettina Rheims (1952-) photographer

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

Xavier Veilhan (1963-) photographer, other media

See also



European art history

Art history

History of Painting.

List of Spanish artists

List of Bulgarian artists

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