French Painters
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
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
Jacques Morel (artist) (c.1395–1459) sculptor
Simon Marmion (c.1420–1489) Illuminations
Jean Fouquet (1420–1481) painter, Illuminations
Nicolas Froment (c.1450–c.1490) painter
Pierre Antoine Le Moiturier (active in the 1460s) sculptor
Jean Clouet (c.1485–1541) (Flemish born) painter, Miniatures
Jean Duvet (c.1485–c.1570) engraver
Jehan Cousin the elder (1500–1593) painter, engraver, sculptor
Ligier Richier (1500–1567) sculptor
Philibert Delorme (or de L'Orme) (1505/1510–1570) sculptor, Architectural plans
Pierre Bontemps (1505/1510–after 1562) sculptor
Jean Goujon (c.1510–1565?) sculptor
Bernard Palissy (1510–1590) Master potter
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (c1510–1585) Architectural plans
Jean Juste (active 1515–1530) sculptor
François Clouet (c.1515–1572) (son of Jean Clouet) painter
Pierre Lescot (c.1515–1578) sculptor, Architect
Antoine Caron (c.1521–1599) painter
Jehan Cousin the younger (c. 1522–1593) painter
Germain Pilon (c.1535–1590) sculptor
Ambroise Dubois (c.1542–1614) (Flemish born) painter
Barthélemy Prieur (c.1536–1616) sculptor
Toussaint Dubreuil (c.1561–1602) painter
Martin Fréminet (1567–1619) painter
Frans Pourbus the younger (1569–1622) (Flemish born) painter
Jacques Bellange (1575–1616) (in Lorraine) engraver
Jean Decourt (active 1570s) painter
François Quesnel (active 1580s) painter
Jacques Patin (active 1580s) engraver
Claude Deruet (1588–1660) (in Lorraine) painter
Seventeenth century
Jean de Beaugrand (1584–1640) lineographer
Simon Vouet (1590–1649) painter
Jacques Callot (1592–1635) (in Lorraine) engraver
Georges de La Tour (1593–1652) painter
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) painter
Antoine Le Nain (before 1600–?) painter
Louis Le Nain (after 1600–?) painter
Abraham Bosse (1602–1676) engraver
Claude Gelée, called Claude Lorrain (1600–1682) painter
Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674)
Pierre-Antoine Lemoine (1605–1665) still-life painter
Laurent de La Hyre (1606–1565) painter
Mathieu Le Nain (1607–c.1677) painter
Pierre Mignard (1612–1695) painter
Gaspard Dughet (1613–1675) French painter
André Le Nôtre (1613–1700) Landscape architect
Eustache Le Sueur (1616–1655) painter
Sébastien Bourdon (1616–1671) painter
Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) painter, other media
Pierre Paul Puget (1620–1694) sculptor
Guillaume Courtois (1628–1679) French painter and etcher
François Girardon (1628–1715) sculptor
Claude Lefebvre (1633–1675) painter and engraver
Charles de la Fosse (1636–1716) painter
Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720) sculptor
Charles de La Fosse (1640–1716) French painter
Étienne Allegrain (1644–1736) French topographical painter
Jean Jouvenet (1644–1717) painter
François de Troy (1645–1730) painter
Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746) painter
Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743) painter
Antoine Coypel (1661–1722) sculptor
François Desportes (1661–1743) painter
Eighteenth century
Alexis Simon Belle (1674–1734)
Jean-François de Troy (1679–1752) (son of François) painter
Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) painter
Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684–1745) painter
Jean-Marc Nattier (1685–1766) painter
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755) painter
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels (1686–1767) engraver
François Lemoyne (1688–1737) painter
Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743) painter
Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694–1752) French painter, art commentator, and playwright
Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695–1736) painter
Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) painter
Charles Joseph Natoire (1700–1777) painter
Louis-François Roubiliac (1702–1762) sculptor
Jean Etienne Liotard (1702–1789) painter
François Boucher (1703–1770) painter, engraver
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788) painter
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1704–1778) painter, sculptor
Charles-André van Loo (Carle Van Loo) (1705–1765) (brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo) painter
Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771) (son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo) painter
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785) sculptor
Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789) painter
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715–1783) painter
Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716–1791) sculptor
Joseph-Marie Vien (1716–1809) painter
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795) (son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo) painter
Charles Germain de Saint Aubin (1721–1786) engraver, embroidery designer
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) painter
François-Hubert Drouais (Drouais le fils) (1727–1775) painter
Jean-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
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–c1800) 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
Antoine Berjon (1754–1843) painter and designer
Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829)
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755–1842) painter
Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism)
Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757–1841) - French painter known for his landscapes
Pierre Prudhon (1758–1823) painter
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833) photographer
Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825), French poet and painter from Brittany
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767–1824) painter
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767–1855) painter
Antoine Jean Gros (1771–1835) painter
Pierre Narcisse Guérin (1771–1833) painter
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) painter
Étienne Bouhot (1780–1862) French painter and art teacher
Alexandre-François Caminade (1783–1862) - French portraitist and a religion painter
François Rude (1784–1855) sculptor
Eugenie Margeurite Honoree Charen (1786–1824) French painter
Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851) photographer
Charles de Steuben (1788–1856) French painter active during the Napoleonic Era
Horace Vernet (1789–1863) painter
Jules Robert Auguste (c.1789–1850) painter
Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) painter
Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845) painter
Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875) sculptor
Ary Scheffer (1795–1858) painter
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875) painter
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) painter
Hippolyte Bellangé (1800–1866) painter
Achille Devéria (1800–1857) painter, engraver
Paul Huet (1803–1869) painter
Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, called) (1803–1847) engraver
Eugène Isabey (1803–1886) painter
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804–1860) painter
Edouard Vienot (born 1804) painter
Hippolyte Bayard (1807–1887) photographer
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879) painter, engraver
Louis Boulanger (1808–1867) painter
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (1808–1878) (Born in Spain) painter
Auguste Préault (1809–1879) sculptor
Ignace François Bonhomme (1809–1881) painter
Constant Troyon (1810–1865) painter
Jules Dupré (1811–1889) painter
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) painter
Boissard de Boisdenier (1813–1866) painter
Charles Jacque (1813–1894) painter
Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) painter
Thomas Couture (1815–1879) painter
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815–1891) painter
Jacques-Eugene Feyen (1815–1908) painter
Charles Marville (1816–1879) painter, engraver, photographer
Antoine Chintreuil (1816–1873) painter
Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna (1817–1878) painter
François Bonvin (1817–1887) painter
Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878) painter
Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819–1891) (Dutch, worked in France) painter
Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856) painter
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) painter
Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876) painter
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820–1910) photographer
Charles Méryon (1821–1868) engraver
Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) painter
Marie Adrien Persac (1823) painter,cartographer,architect,civil engineer,photographer
Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889) painter
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824–1887), French sculptor and painter
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) painter
Théodule Ribot (1824–1891) painter
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) painter
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes(1824–1898) painter
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) painter
Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) painter
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875) sculptor
Elie Delaunay (1828–1891) painter
Achille Emperaire (1829–1898) French painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne
François Salle (1839–1899)
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902) painter
Nineteenth century
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) painter
Etienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904) photographer
Édouard Manet (1832–1883) painter
Gustave Doré (1832–1883) engraver
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) painter, sculptor
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904) painter
Jules Chéret (1836–1932) painter, other media
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) painter
Odilon Redon (1840–1916) painter, engraver and pastels
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) sculptor
Claude Monet (1840–1926) painter (was 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) French painter
Henri Rousseau ("Le Douanier Rousseau") (1844–1910) painter
Jean Antonin Mercié (1845–1916) sculptor
Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) painter
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884) painter
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) painter, sculptor
Henry Lerolle (1848–1929) painter
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) (Dutch, worked in France) painter
Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927) photographer
Mathurin Janssaud (1857–1940) painter
Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859–1891) painter
Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929) sculptor
Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) sculptor
Louis Vivin (1861–1936) painter
Antonio de la Gandara (1861–1917) painter
Paul Signac (1863–1935) painter
Henri Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) painter
Paul Sérusier (1864–1927) painter
Paul Ranson (1864–1909) painter
Seraphine Louis (1864-1942) painter
Albert Aurier (1865–1892), poet, art critic and painter devoted to Symbolism
Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) painter
Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) (Swiss, worked in France) engraver
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) painter
Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867–1944) painter
Hector Guimard (1867–1942) Architect and Decorator
Edouard Jean Vuillard (1868–1940) painter
Georges Lacombe (1868–1916) sculptor
Emile Bernard (1868–1941) painter
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) painter, other media
Adolf de Meyer (1869–1949) photographer
Twentieth century
Henri Jourdain (1864–1931) French, painter, prints or lithographs of landscapes usually by the water
Georges Rouault (1871–1958) painter
Frantisek Kupka (1871–1957) (Czech, worked in France) painter
Henri-Charles Manguin (1874–1943) painter
Albert Marquet (1875–1947) painter
Jacques Villon (1875–1963) painter
Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) (French, born in Romania) sculptor
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958) (Flemish, worked in France) painter
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876–1918) sculptor
Raoul Dufy (1877–1953) painter
Jean Crotti (1878–1958) (Swiss) painter
Louis Marcoussis (Louis Markus)(1878–1941) or (1883–1941) (Polish, worked in France) painter
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) painter
André Derain (1880–1954) painter
Joseph Hémard (1880–1961) illustrator
Albert Gleizes (1881–1952) painter
Henri Le Fauconnier (1881–1946) painter
Fernand Léger (1881–1955) painter
Georges Braque (1882–1963) painter
Auguste Herbin (1882–1960) painter
Jean Metzinger (1883–1956) painter, engraver
Marie Laurencin (1883–1956) painter
Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955) painter
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884–1974) painter
Jacques Maroger (1884–1962) painter
Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) painter
André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974) painter
Pierre Brissaud (1885–1964) painter
Roger de la Fresnaye (1885–1925) painter
Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1956) painter
Jean (Hans) Arp (1886–1966) painter, sculptor
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) (Born in Belarus) painter
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) painter, sculptor, other media
Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889–1963) painter
Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967) (Russian born) sculptor
Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) (Born in Poland) sculptor
Max Ernst (1891–1976) (German born) 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
Prosper Rotgé (1895–1969) painter, engraver
Gen Paul (1895–1975) painter, engraver
Albert Gilles (1895–1979) metal embosser, working with copper
André Masson (1896–1987) painter
René Iché (1897–1954) sculptor, painter
Jean Fautrier (1898–1964) painter
Georges Gimel (1898–1962) painter,engraver,sculptor
Henri Michaux (1899–1984) (Belgian) painter
Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary) photographer
Twentieth century
Constantine Andreou (1917–2007) (Greek, Brazilian born) painter, sculptor
Arman (Armand Fernandez) (1928–2005) sculptor
Serge Arto (1959–) painter,sculptor, photographer,media artist
Georges Badin (1927–) painter
César Baldaccini (called "César") (1921–1998) sculptor
Gilles Balmet (1979–) Video artist, painter, photographer and other media
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, called "Balthus") (1908–2001) (Polish born) painter
Vanilla Beer (1953) painter, daughter of Anthony Stafford Beer
Hans Bellmer (1902–1975) (French, Born in Germany) sculptor, photographer, engraver
Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen) (1957–) media artist
Thierry Bisch (1953–) painter
Maurice Boitel (1919–) painter
Christian Boltanski (1944–) painter, photographer, other media, sculptor
Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921–) painter
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) (Lives in America) sculptor, other media
Victor Brauner (1903-1966) (Romanian) painter
Bernard Buffet (1928–1999) painter
Daniel Buren (1938–) sculptor, painter
Jean-Marc Bustamante (1952–) painter, sculptor, photographer
Henri Cadiou (1906–1989) painter
Allison Carmichael (1963) painter
Amelie Chabannes (1974–) painter, sculptor
Gaston Chaissac (1910–1964) painter, other media
Robert Combas (1957–) painter
Jean-Yves Couliou (1916–1995) painter
Jose Da Silveira (created Formism) (1965–) (Lives in America) sculptor, painter, other media, writer, novelist, poet, playwright
Michel De Caso (1956–) painter, sculptor
Jacques de la Villeglé (1926–) other media (ripped posters)
Thibaut de Reimpré (1949-) abstract painter
Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930–2002) sculptor
Michel de Sereville (1922–2006)- painter, illustrator
Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955) (French, Russian origin) painter
Daniel Dezeuze (1942–)other media
Hervé Di Rosa (1959–) painter
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) painter
Alexandre Elmaleh de Buenos (1927–2006) (French, Naturalized American) Impressionist Painter
Bracha L. Ettinger (1948–) (Born in Tel Aviv) painter, photographer, new media, artist's books
Ivan Fayard (1969–) painter
Robert Filliou (1926–1987) other media
Bernard Frize (1954–) painter
Gérard Fromanger (1939–) painter, other media
Gérard Garouste (1946–) sculptor, painter, other media
Gérard Gasiorowski (1930-1986) painter, other media
Alfred Georges Regner (1901–1987) Painter-Engraver
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) (Swiss, worked in Paris) sculptor, painter
Alvaro Guillot (1931-) (French lives in USA) Painter of Surrealist and abstract Realism
Raymond Hains (1926–2005) other media
Simon Hantaï (1922–) (Born in Hungary) painter
Hans Hartung (1904–1992) (Born in Germany) painter
Jean Hélion (1904–1987) painter
Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910–2007) photographer (Born in Hungary)
Pierre Huyghe (1962–) media, film, video
François Jacques Boeri (1929–) painter
Jean Jacques Surian (1942–) (painter and ceramist, lives in Marseille)
Yves Klein (1928–1962) painter
Raphael Labro (1956–) painter, photographer, other media
Pierre Laffillé (1938–) painter
Andrey Lekarski (1940–) painter,sculptor, media artist (Bulgarian born)
Claude-Max Lochu (1951–) painter
Etienne Martin (1913-1995) sculptor
Georges Mathieu (1921–) painter
Ksenia Milicevic (1942-) painter
Jules Michel (1931–) (French lives in France) painter, sculptor
François Morellet (1926–) painter
Patrick Moya (1955–) painter, sculptor, media artist (see fr:Patrick Moya )
Elle Nicolai (active since 1997) (lives in America), painter, photographer
Orlan (1947–) performance artist, body artist
François Ozenda (1923–1976) painter
Zaven Paré (1961–) New media artist
Jacques Pellegrin (painter) (1944–) painter
Anne Poirier (1942–) painter, other media
Patrick Poirier (1942–) painter, other media
Martial Raysse (1936–) painter
Paul Rebeyrolle (1926-2005) painter
Claude Rutault (1941–) conceptualist, painter
Alexis Ruyer (Ruyal) (1955–) painter
Dominique Sanson (1949–) (French, lives and works in Ibiza, Spain) painter
Jean-Michel Sanejouand (1934–) sculptor, painter
Denis Schneider (1946–)-painter
Pierre Soulages (1919–) painter
Pierre Tal-Coat (1905–1985) painter
Yves Tanguy (1900–1955) (Naturalized American) painter
Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) (Swiss) sculptor
Jacques Toutain-Dorbec (1923–) (French, lives and work in Spain) painter
Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951–) painter, sculptor, photographer, writer
Andre Vandenbussche (1951–) painter, sculptor
Victor Vasarely (1908–1997) (Born in Hungary) painter
Ben Vautier (called "Ben") (dates?) painter, other media
Bernar Venet (1941–) (Lives in America) sculptor
Pierre Wemaëre (1913–) painter
Raymond Wintz (1884–1956) painter
Wols (1913-1951) (Born in Germany) painter
Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1934–2002) (son of Victor Vasarely ) painter
Patrick Mimran (1956–) multimedia artist
Y Liver (1977-)(Lives and works in Paris) video-maker and performance artists
Corinne Tounsi (1956 - ) (Lives and works in Vence) painter, visual artist
French photographers
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833) — Inventor of Photography
Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851)
Hippolyte Bayard (1807–1887)
Charles Marville (1816–1879)
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820–1910)
Etienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904)
Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927)
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986)
Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004)
Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910–) photographer (Born in Hungary)
Willy Ronis (1910–2009) photographer
Robert Doisneau (1912–1994)
Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913–1951) (German, worked in France) photographer
Marc Riboud (1923–)
Pierre Boulat (1924–1998) photographer
Georges Rousse (1947–) photographer
Pierre et Gilles (Pierre: 1949, Gilles: 1953) photographers(active since 1976)
Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951–)
Bettina Rheims (1952–) photographer
Ange Leccia (1952–) photographer, filmmaker
Sophie Calle (1953–) other media, photographer
Alexandra Boulat (1962–2007) photographer
Xavier Veilhan (1963–) photographer, other media
Richard Clayderman (1953–)
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