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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.
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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 (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
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
- 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
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
- 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-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) painter
- Jean-Jacques Durameau (1733-1796) painter
- Hubert Robert (1733-1808) painter, engraver
- Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735-1802) French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes
- 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) - French painter
- Jacques Louis David (1748-1825) painter
- Antoine Berjon (1754-1843) - French painter and designer
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829)
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 (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
- Marie Bracquemond (1841-1916) 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
- 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 (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 (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) 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
- Georges Gimel (1898-1962) painter,engraver,sculptor
- Henri Michaux (1899-1984) (Belgian) painter
- Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899-1984) (born in Hungary) photographer
Twentieth century (Post World War II)
See also Modern art
- Alexandre Elmaleh de Buenos (1927 - 2006) (French, Naturalized American) Impressionist Painter
- Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) (Naturalized American) painter
- Alfred Georges Regner (1901-1987) Painter-Engraver
- 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
- Hans Hartung (1904-1992) (Born in Germany) painter
- Jean Hélion (1904-1987) painter
- Pierre Tal-Coat (1905-1985) painter
- Henri Cadiou (1906-1989) painter
- Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, called "Balthus") (1908-2001) (Polish born) painter
- Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) (Born in Hungary) painter
- Gaston Chaissac (1910-1964) painter, other media
- Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910-2007) photographer (Born in Hungary)
- Louise Bourgeois (1911-) (Lives in America) sculptor, other media
- Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) (French, Russian origin) painter
- Jean-Yves Couliou (1916-1995) painter
- Constantine Andreou (1917 - 2007) (Greek, Brazilian born) painter, sculptor
- Pierre Soulages (1919- ) painter
- Maurice Boitel (1919- ) painter
- César Baldaccini (called "César") (1921-1998) sculptor
- Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921-) painter
- Georges Mathieu (1921- ) painter
- Simon Hantaï (1922-) (Born in Hungary) painter
- Jacques Toutain-Dorbec (1923- ) (French, lives and work in Spain) painter
- François Ozenda (1923–1976) painter
- Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) (Swiss) sculptor
- François Morellet (1926- ) painter
- Jacques de la Villeglé (1926-) other media (ripped posters)
- Raymond Hains (1926-2005) other media
- Robert Filliou (1926-1987) other media
- Georges Badin (1927-) painter
- Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) painter
- Yves Klein (1928-1962) painter
- Arman (Armand Fernandez) (1928-2005) sculptor
- François Jacques Boeri (1929-) painter
- Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930-2002) sculptor
- Jules Michel (1931- ) (French lives in France) painter, sculptor
- Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1934-2002) (son of Victor Vasarely) painter
- Martial Raysse (1936-) painter
- Daniel Buren (1938- ) sculptor, painter
- Pierre Laffillé (1938- ), painter
- Gérard Fromanger (1939-) painter, other media
- Jean Jacques Surian (1942-) (painter and ceramist, lives in Marseille)
- Ben Vautier (called “Ben”) (dates?) painter, other media
- Anne Poirier (1942- ) painter, other media
- Patrick Poirier (1942- ) painter, other media
- Christian Boltanski (1944- ) painter, photographer, other media, sculptor
- Bracha L. Ettinger (1948- ) (Born in Tel Aviv) painter, photographer, new media, artist's books
- Gérard Garouste (1946-) sculptor, painter, other media
- Orlan (1947-) performance artist, body artist
- Dominique Sanson (1949 - ) (French, lives and works in Ibiza, Spain) painter
- Claude-Max Lochu (1951- ) painter
- Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951- ) painter, sculptor, photographer, writer
- Jean-Marc Bustamante (1952-) painter, sculptor, photographer
- Vanilla Beer (1953) painter, daughter of *Anthony Stafford Beer
- Thierry Bisch (1953-) painter
- Bernard Frize (1954-) painter
- Patrick Moya (1955-) painter, sculptor, media artist (see fr:Patrick Moya)
- Alexis Ruyer (Ruyal) (1955-) painter
- Raphael Labro (1956- ) painter, photographer, other media
- Michel De Caso (1956-) painter, sculptor
- Robert Combas (1957-) painter
- Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen) (1957- ) media artist
- Hervé Di Rosa (1959-) painter
- Serge Arto (1959-) painter,sculptor, photographer,media artist
- Elle Nicolai (active since 1997) (lives in America), painter, photographer
- Zaven Paré (1961-) New media artist
- Pierre Huyghe (1962-) media, film, video
- Allison Carmichael (1963) painter
- Jose Da Silveira (created Formism) (1965-) (Lives in America) sculptor, painter, other media, writer, novelist, poet, playwright
- Amelie Chabannes (1974-) painter, sculptor
- Gilles Balmet (1979-) Video artist, painter, photographer and other media
- Michel de Sereville (1922-2006)- painter, illustrator
French photographers
See also List of photographers, Category: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)
- 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
- Dani Jackson (1984-) photographer
See also
- European art history
- Art history
- History of Painting
- List of Spanish artists
- List of Bulgarian artists
