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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). 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 (c.1395-1459) sculptor
- Pierre Antoine Le Moiturier (active in the 1460s) sculptor
- Simon Marmion (c.1420-1489) Illuminations
- Jean Fouquet (1425-1481) painter, Illuminations
- Nicolas Froment (c.1450 — c.1490) painter
- Jean Juste (active 1515-1530) sculptor
- Jean Clouet (c.1485-1541) (Flemish born) painter, Miniatures
- Jean Duvet (c.1485-c.1570) engraver
- Jean Cousin the younger (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
- Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (c1510-1585) Architectural plans
- Bernard Palissy (1510-1590) Master potter
- François Clouet (c.1515-1572) (son of Jean Clouet) painter
- Pierre Lescot (c.1515-1578) sculptor, Architect
- Jean Decourt (active 1570s) painter
- François Quesnel (active 1580s) painter
- Jacques Patin (active 1580s) engraver
- Antoine Caron (c.1521-1599) 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
- Claude Deruet (1588-1660) (in Lorraine) painter
17th Century
See also French Baroque and Classicism, Louis XIII of France, Cardinal Richelieu, Baroque, Louis XIV of France, Palace of Versailles, Classicism
- 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
- Mathieu Le Nain (1607-c.1677) painter
- Claude Gelée, called Claude Lorraine (1600-1682) painter
- Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674)
- Laurent de La Hyre (1606-1565) 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
18th 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
- Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) painter
- Jean-Baptiste François 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
- 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
- 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
19th Century (From 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 (1804-1886) 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
- Charles Marville (1816-1879) painter, engraver, photographer
- Antoine Chantreuil (1816-1873) 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 Maryon (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
19th Century (From 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
- 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
- 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
- Felix 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
20th 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
- Jacques Villon (1875-1963) sculptor
- 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
- Marc 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
- Marie Laurencin (1885-1956) painter
- Pierre Brissaud (1885-1964) painter
- Roger de la Fresnaye (1885-1925) painter
- Amédée Ozenfant (1886-1956)
- 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
- André Masson (1896-1987) painter
- Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) painter
- Gen Paul (1898-1975) painter, engraver
- 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
- Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) (French, Born in Germany) sculptor, photographer, engraver
20th Century (Post World War II)
See also Modern art
- Hans Hartung (1904-1992) (Born in Germany) painter
- Jean Hélion (1904-1987) painter
- Pierre Tal-Coat (1905-1985) painter
- Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) (Born in Hungary) painter
- Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, called "Balthus") (1908-2001) (Polish born) painter
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) photographer
- Gaston Chaissac (1910-1964) painter, other media
- Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910-) photographer (Born in Hungary)
- Willy Ronis (1910-) photographer
- Louise Bourgeois (1911-) (Lives in America) sculptor, other media.
- Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) photographer
- Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913-1951) (German, worked in France) photographer
- Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) (French, Russian origin) painter
- Pierre Soulages (1919- ) painter
- Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921-) painter
- César Baldaccini (called "César") (1921- ) sculptor
- Georges Mathieu (1921- ) painter
- Simon Hantaï (1922-) (Born in Hungary) painter
- Marc Riboud (1923-) photographer
- Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) (Swiss) sculptor
- François Morellet (1926- ) painter
- Robert Filliou (1926-1987) other media
- Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) painter
- Arman (Armand Fernandez) (1928-) sculptor
- Yves Klein (1928-1962) painter
- Jean-Pierre Yvaral (dates?) (son of Vasarely) painter
- Daniel Buren (1938- ) sculptor, painter
- Jacques Villeglé (1926-) other media (ripped posters)
- Anne Poirier (1942- ) painter, other media
- Patrick Poirier (1942- ) painter, other media
- Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930-) sculptor
- Ben Vautier (called “Ben”) (dates?) painter, other media
- Christian Boltanski (1944- ) painter, photographer, other media, sculptor
- Gérard Garouste (1946-) sculptor, painter, other media
- Georges Rousse (1947-) photographer
- Bettina Rheims (1952-) photographer
- Sophie Calle (1953-) other media, photographer
- Bernard Frize (1954-) painter
- Robert Combas (1957-) painter
- Pierre et Gilles (active since 1976) photographer
- Thierry Bisch (1953-) painter
French photographers
See also List of photographers, Category:French photgraphers
- 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 et Gilles (active since 1976)
