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 Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.

Middle Ages

Gislebertus (12th century), sculptor
Pierre de Montreuil (c.1200–1266), architect
Villard de Honnecourt (13th century), other media
Jean Pucelle (active 1325–28), other media
Jean Malouel (Dutch, worked in Burgundy) (1365-1416), painter
Anastasia (fl. c.1400), manuscript illuminator
Claus Sluter (Dutch, worked in Burgundy from 1395–1406), sculptor
the Limbourg brothers (Pol and Hermann) (Dutch artists working in Burgundy around 1403–1416), other media

Renaissance

Jacques Morel (c.1395–1459), sculptor
Enguerrand Quarton (c.1410–c.1466), painter, miniatures
Henri Bellechose (Flemish born) (active 1415-1440), painter
Simon Marmion (c.1420–1489), illuminations
Jean Fouquet (1420–1481), painter, illuminations
Jean Colombe (1430–1493), illuminations
Michel Colombe (c.1430–1515), sculptor
Nicolas Froment (c.1450–c.1490), painter
Jean Perréal (c.1455–1528), painter, illuminations
Antoine Le Moiturier (active in the 1460s), sculptor
Jean Clouet (c.1485–1541) (Flemish born), painter, miniatures
Jean Duvet (c.1485–c.1570), engraver
Josse Lieferinxe (active 1493–1508) (Flemish born), painter
Nicolas Dipre (fl. 1495–1532), painter
Jehan Cousin the elder (1500–1593), painter, engraver, sculptor
Ligier Richier (1500–1567), sculptor
Pierre Quesnel (c.1502–1580), painter
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 (c.1510–1585), 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
Jean Cousin the Younger (c. 1522–1593), painter
Germain Pilon (c.1535–1590), sculptor
Barthélemy Prieur (c.1536–1616), sculptor
Étienne Dumonstier (1540–1603), painter
Ambroise Dubois (c.1542–1614) (Flemish born), painter
Pierre Dumonstier I (c.1545–c.1610), painter
Thomas de Leu (1560-1612), engraver
Toussaint Dubreuil (c.1561–1602), painter
Léonard Gaultier (c.1561-1641), engraver
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
Jean de Beaugrand (1584–1640), lineographer

Seventeenth century

Daniel Dumonstier (1574–1646), draftsman
Pierre Dumonstier II (1585–1656), draftsman
Claude Deruet (1588–1660) (in Lorraine), painter
Simon Vouet (1590–1649), painter
Jacques Callot (1592–1635) (in Lorraine), engraver
Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), painter
Claude Vignon (1593-1670), painter, printmaker, illustrator
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), painter
Antoine Le Nain (before 1600–?), painter
Louis Le Nain (after 1600–?), painter
Nicolas Lagneau (fl c. 1600–c. 1650), draftsman
Abraham Bosse (1602–1676), engraver
Claude Gelée, called Claude Lorrain (1600–1682), painter
Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674)
Pierre-Antoine Lemoine (1605–1665), still-life painter
Laurent de La Hyre (1606–1565), painter
Mathieu Le Nain (1607–c.1677), painter
Louise Moillon (1610–1696), painter
Pierre Mignard (1612–1695), painter
Gaspard Dughet (1613–1675), painter
André Le Nôtre (1613–1700), landscape architect
Eustache Le Sueur (1616–1655), painter
Sébastien Bourdon (1616–1671), painter
Charles Le Brun (1619–1690), painter, other media
Pierre Paul Puget (1620–1694), sculptor
Guillaume Courtois (1628–1679), painter and etcher
François Girardon (1628–1715), sculptor
Catherine Duchemin (1630–1698), painter
Claude Lefèbvre (1633–1675), painter and engraver
Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636–1697), engraver
Charles de la Fosse (1636–1716), painter
Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720), sculptor
Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (1641–1676), engraver
Étienne Allegrain (1644–1736), topographical painter
Jean Jouvenet (1644–1717), painter
François de Troy (1645–1730), painter
Madeleine Boullogne (1646–1710), still life painter
Marie Blancour (fl. 1650–1699), painter
Marie Courtois (c.1655–1703), miniature painter
Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746), painter
Nicolas Coustou (1658–1733), sculptor
Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743), painter
Antoine Coypel (1661–1722), sculptor
François Desportes (1661–1743), painter

Eighteenth century

Alexis Simon Belle (1674–1734)
Jean-François de Troy (1679–1752) (son of François), painter
Marie-Anne Horthemels (1682–1727), engraver
Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), painter
Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684–1745), painter
Jean-Marc Nattier (1685–1766), painter
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755), painter
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels (1686–1767), engraver
François Lemoyne (1688–1737), painter
Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743), painter
Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694–1752), painter, art commentator, and playwright
Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695–1736), painter
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699–1779), painter
Charles Joseph Natoire (1700–1777), painter
Louis-François Roubiliac (1702–1762), sculptor
Jean-Étienne 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-Baptiste Defernex (1729–1783), sculptor
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), painter
Jean-Jacques Durameau (1733–1796), painter
Hubert Robert (1733–1808), painter, engraver
Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734–1772), painter
Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802), painter
Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735–1802), French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes
Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761–1824), painter
Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1735–1784), painter
Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre (1739–c.1800), painter
Jean Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), sculptor
Jean-Michel Moreau (Moreau the younger) (1741–1814), engraver
Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818), painter
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), painter
Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin (1750–1817), portrait artist
Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751–1824), portrait and landscape artist
Michel Garnier (1753–1819), painter
Rosalie Filleul (1752–1794), painter
Antoine Berjon (1754–1843), painter and designer
Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829)
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), painter
Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757–1841), painter known for his landscapes
Pierre Prudhon (1758–1823), painter

Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism)

Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), painter
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), photographer
Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825), poet and painter from Brittany
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767–1824), painter
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767–1855), painter
Antoine Jean Gros (1771–1835), painter
Pierre Narcisse Guérin (1771–1833), painter
Adélaïde Victoire Hall (1772–1844), painter
Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet (1815–1886), lithographer
Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777–1837), painter, draftsman
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), painter
Étienne Bouhot (1780–1862), painter and art teacher
Alexandre-François Caminade (1783–1862), portraitist and religious painter
François Rude (1784–1855), sculptor
Eugénie Charen (1786–1824), painter
Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851), photographer
Charles de Steuben (1788–1856), painter active during the Napoleonic Era
Horace Vernet (1789–1863), painter
Jules Robert Auguste (c.1789–1850), painter
Elisa de Lamartine (1790–1863), painter and sculptor
Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), painter
Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), painter
Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875), sculptor
Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), painter
Raymond Bonheur (1796–1849), painter
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875), painter
Fanny Alaux (1797–1880), painter
Paul Delaroche (1797–1856), painter
Julie Hugo (1797–1865), painter
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), painter
Alfred Johannot (1800–1837), painter and engraver
Hippolyte Bellangé (1800–1866), painter
Camille Chantereine (1810–1847), painter
Achille Devéria (1800–1857), painter, engraver
Charles Philipon (1800–1861), caricaturist
Paul Huet (1803–1869), painter
François-Émile de Lansac (1803–1890), painter
Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, called) (1803–1847), engraver
Eugène Isabey (1803–1886), painter
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804–1860), painter
Édouard Viénot (born 1804), painter
Hippolyte Bayard (1807–1887), photographer
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), painter, lithographer, sculptor
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
Eugène André Oudiné (1810–1875), sculptor, engraver
Jules Dupré (1811–1889), painter
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), painter
Boissard de Boisdenier (1813–1866), painter
Charles Jacque (1813–1894), painter
Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), painter
Thomas Couture (1815–1879), painter
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815–1891), painter
Jacques-Eugene Feyen (1815–1908), painter
Charles Marville (1816–1879), painter, engraver, photographer
Antoine Chintreuil (1816–1873), painter
Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna (1817–1878), painter
François Bonvin (1817–1887), painter
Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878), painter
Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819–1891) (Dutch, worked in France), painter
Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), painter
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), painter
Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876), painter
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820–1910), photographer
Charles Méryon (1821–1868), printmaker (etching)
Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), painter
Marie Adrien Persac (1823–?), painter, cartographer, architect, civil engineer, photographer
Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), painter
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824–1887), sculptor and painter
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), painter
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (1824–1886), 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
Camille Alfred Pabst (1828–1898), painter
Achille Emperaire (1829–1898), painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne
Lucien Joulin (1842–1878), painter
Gaston de Laperriere (1848–1920), painter
Aimé Morot (1850–1915), painter and son in law of Jean-Léon Gérôme
Gabriel-Charles Deneux [fr] (b. 1856), encaustic painter

Nineteenth century (Impressionism to Fauvism)

Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), painter
Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), photographer
Édouard Manet (1832–1883), painter
Gustave Doré (1832–1883), engraver
Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painter, sculptor
Pierre Mallet (1836-1898), painter of ceramics
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), painter
Jules Chéret (1836–1932), painter, other media
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), painter
François Salle (1839–1899)
Odilon Redon (1840–1916), painter, draftsman, lithographer
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), sculptor
Claude Monet (1840–1926), painter; a founder of French impressionist painting
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), painter
Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870), painter
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), painter
Marie Bracquemond (1841–1916), painter
Fernand Pelez (1843–1913), painter
Alexander Louis Leloir (1843–1884), painter
Henri Rousseau ("Le Douanier Rousseau") (1844–1910), painter
Jean Antonin Mercié (1845–1916), sculptor
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902), painter
Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), painter
Henri Biva (1848–1929), painter
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884), painter
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), painter, sculptor
Henry Lerolle (1848–1929), painter
Eugène Carrière (1849–1906), painter
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (1851–1932), painter
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) (Dutch, worked in France), painter
Charles Angrand (1854–1926), painter
Emilie Jenny Weyl (1855–1934), sculptor
Henry-Edmond Cross (1856-1910), painter
Henry Moret (1856–1913), painter
Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927), photographer
Mathurin Janssaud (1857–1940), painter
Marie Bashkirtseff (1858-1884), painter and sculptor
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
Gaston Bussière (1862–1929), Symbolism movement painter and illustrator
Ernest de Chamaillard (1862–1931), painter
Henri Delavallée (1862–1943), painter
Paul Signac (1863–1935), painter
Camille Bouvagne (1864–1936), painter
René Georges Hermann-Paul (1864–1940), graphic artist, illustrator, painter
William Didier-Pouget (1864–1959), painter
Henri Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), painter
Paul Sérusier (1864–1927), painter
Paul Ranson (1864–1909), painter
Seraphine Louis (1864–1942), painter
Henri Jourdain (1864–1931), painter, prints or lithographs of landscapes usually by the water
Albert Aurier (1865–1892), poet, art critic and painter devoted to Symbolism
Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter
Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) (Swiss, worked in France), painter, engraver
Jacqueline Marval (1866-1932), the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet, French painter
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), painter
Angèle Delasalle (1867–1941, painter, engraver
Paule Gobillard (1867–1946), painter
Jeanne Itasse-Broquet (1867–1941), sculptor
Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867–1944), painter
Hector Guimard (1867–1942), architect and decorator
Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940), painter
Georges Lacombe (1868–1916), sculptor
Émile Bernard (1868–1941), painter
Henri Matisse (1869–1954), painter, other media
Adolf de Meyer (1869–1949), photographer
Georges d'Espagnat (1870–1950), painter, illustrator, engraver

Twentieth century (pre-World War II)

Georges Rouault (1871–1958), painter
Léon Printemps (1871–1945), painter
František Kupka (1871–1957) (Czech, worked in France), painter
Henri-Charles Manguin (1874–1943), painter
Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (1875–1928), painter
Albert Marquet (1875–1947), painter
Jacques Villon (1875–1963), painter
Constantin Brâncuși (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
Jeanne Baudot (1877–1957), painter
Jean Crotti (1878–1958) (Swiss), painter
Louis Marcoussis (Louis Markus) (1878–1941 or 1883–1941) (Polish, worked in France), painter
Francis Picabia (1879–1953), painter
Maurice Berty (1884-1946), illustrator
André Derain (1880–1954), painter
Joseph Hémard (1880–1961), illustrator
Albert Gleizes (1881–1952), painter, writer, theorist
Henri Le Fauconnier (1881–1946), painter
Jacob Macznik (1905–1945), painter^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Fernand Léger (1881–1955), painter
Georges Braque (1882–1963), painter
Auguste Chabaud (1882–1955), painter
Auguste Herbin (1882–1960), painter
Jean Metzinger (1883–1956), painter, engraver, poet, writer, theorist
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
Raymond Wintz (1884–1956), painter
Pierre Brissaud (1885–1964), painter
Roger de La Fresnaye (1885–1925), painter
Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886–1943), French Post-Impressionist painter of the Rouen School (l'École de Rouen)
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
Anna Quinquaud (1890–1984), explorer and sculptor
Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967) (Russian born), sculptor
Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) (born in Lithuania), sculptor
Max Ernst (1891–1976) (German born), painter, sculptor
Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron (1891–1949), painter
Louis Favre (1892–1956), painter, creator of lithographs
Bram van Velde (1892–1981) (Dutch, worked in France), painter
Chaïm Soutine (1894–1943) (born in Belarus), painter
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986), photographer
Jean Maurice Rothschild (1902–1998), furniture artist, interior designer, muralist
Gen Paul (1895–1975), painter, engraver
Albert Gilles (1895–1979), metal embosser, working with copper
Lucie Bouniol (1896–1988), sculptor, painter
André Masson (1896–1987), painter
René Iché (1897–1954), sculptor, painter
Jean Fautrier (1898–1964), painter
Georges Gimel (1898–1962), painter, engraver, sculptor
Henri Michaux (1899–1984) (Belgian), painter
Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary), photographer
Yves Tanguy (1900–1955) (naturalized American), painter

Twentieth century (post-World War II)

French photographers

Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927)
Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary)
Hippolyte Bayard (1807–1887)
Adeline Boutain (1862–1946), photographer, postcard publisher
Adolphe Braun (1812–1877)
Alexandra Boulat (1962–2007), photographer
Sophie Calle (1953–), other media, photographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004)
Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851)
Robert Doisneau (1912–1994)
Pierre Dubreuil (1872–1944), photographer
Philippe Echaroux (1983–)
Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910–), photographer (born in Hungary)
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986)
Ange Leccia (1952–), photographer, filmmaker
Jean-François Lepage (1960–), photographer
Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904)
Charles Marville (1816–1879)
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820–1910)
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), inventor of photography
Pierre et Gilles (Pierre: 1949, Gilles: 1953), photographers (active since 1976)
Michel Poivert (1965–), photography historian, president of Société française de photographie
Herman Puig (originally from Cuba), photographer, filmmaker
Constant Puyo (1857–1933)
Marc Riboud (1923–2016), photographer
Georges Rousse (1947–), photographer
Bettina Rheims (1952–), photographer
Willy Ronis (1910–2009), photographer
Lise Sarfati (1958–), photographer
Jean-Louis Schoellkopf (1946–), photographer
Alex Strohl (1989–)
Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud (1866–1951), photographer and military officer
Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951–)
Xavier Veilhan (1963–), photographer, other media
Jean-Marie Villard (1828–1899)
Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913–1951) (German, worked in France), photographer

References

^ "Home". macznik.org.
^ Peintres Juifs A Paris: École de Paris, Nadine Nieszawer et al, Éditions Denoël, Paris, 2000
^ Atristes Juifs de l'École de Paris 1905-1939, Nieszawer and Princ, Somogy Éditions d'Art, Paris, 2015
^ Künstler Lexikon des Zwanzigsten Jarhrhunderts, Hans Vollmer, volume six, E. A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1962
^ Undzere Farpainikte Kinstler, Hersh Fenster, Imprimerie Abècé, Paris 1951

[1] "Home". macznik.org.

[2] Peintres Juifs A Paris: École de Paris, Nadine Nieszawer et al, Éditions Denoël, Paris, 2000

[3] Atristes Juifs de l'École de Paris 1905-1939, Nieszawer and Princ, Somogy Éditions d'Art, Paris, 2015

[4] Künstler Lexikon des Zwanzigsten Jarhrhunderts, Hans Vollmer, volume six, E. A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1962

[5] Undzere Farpainikte Kinstler, Hersh Fenster, Imprimerie Abècé, Paris 1951

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