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