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.

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

eventeenth 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 )
*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,
*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

ee also

*European art history
*Art history
*History of Painting
*List of Spanish artists
*List of Bulgarian artists