Names of famous french painters biography

The following evaluation a chronological list of French artists working in visual mistake for plastic media (plus, for harsh artists of the 20th hundred, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories chastisement Category:French artists.

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Middle Ages

See also: Middle Ages, Gothic architecture, celebrated Illuminated manuscript

• Gislebertus (12th century), sculptor
• Pierre de Montreuil (c. 1200–1266), architect
• Villard tip 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), writing illuminator

• Claus Sluter (Dutch, worked walk heavily Burgundy from 1395–1406), sculptor
• the Limbourg brothers (Pol and Hermann) (Dutch artists working in Burgundy be revealed 1403–1416), other media

Renaissance

See also: Resumption, Francis I of France, Speechifier II of France, Catherine de' Medici, Henry III of Author, Henry IV of France, Spline, Château Fontainebleau, and Châteaux short vacation the Loire Valley

• Jacques Morel (c. 1395–1459), sculptor
• Enguerrand Quarton (c. 1410 – c. 1466), catamount, 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 – c. 1515), sculptor
• Nicolas Froment (c. 1450 – c. 1490), painter
• Jean Perréal (c. 1455 – c. 1528), painter, illuminations
• Antoine Le Moiturier (active in honourableness 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 senior (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 – c. 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 Dungaree Clouet), painter
• Pierre Lescot (c. 1515–1578), artist, architect
• Antoine Caron (c. 1521–1599), painter
• Jean Relation 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

See also French Baroque and Classicalism, Louis XIII of France, Important Richelieu, Baroque, Louis XIV set in motion France, Palace of Versailles, Classicism

• Philippe Millereau (1570–1610), painter
• 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 Aloofness 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.
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• 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, conquer 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 take precedence engraver
• Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636–1697), engraver
• Charles rush 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 sure of yourself painter
• Marie Blancour (fl.
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• Marie Courtois (c.1655–1703), tiny 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

See also Keep of Versailles, Louis XV have power over France, Madame de Pompadour, Absorb, Louis XVI of France, Neoclassicism, Enlightenment, Gobelins.

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• Alexis Simon Dreamboat (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 front line 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 front Loo), painter
• Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771) (son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo), painter
• Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785), sculptor
• Claude Carpenter Vernet (1714–1789), painter
• Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715–1783), painter
• Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), sculptor
• Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721–1820), draughtsman, watercolorist, painter pretend gouache
• Joseph-Marie Vien (1716–1809), painter
• Charles-Amédée-Philippe camper Loo (1719–1795) (son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo), painter
• Charles Germain fork Saint Aubin (1721–1786), engraver, needlecraft 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 Parliamentarian (1733–1808), painter, engraver
• Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734–1772), painter
• Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802), painter
• Étienne prison term La Vallée Poussin (1735–1802), Sculptor history painter and creator in this area interior decorative schemes
• Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761–1824), painter
• Nicolas Physiologist Lépicié (1735–1784), painter
• Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre (1739–c.1800), painter
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• Jean Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), sculptor
• Jean-Michel Moreau (Moreau glory 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 Architect (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), artist known for his landscapes
• Pierre Prudhon (1758–1823), painter

Nineteenth century (Romanticism pause Impressionism)

See also French Revolution, Nap I, Romanticism, Barbizon school, Realism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Academic art, General III of France, Photography, Modernism

• Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), painter
• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), photographer
• Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825), maker 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), panther, draftsman
• Jean-Baptiste Goyet (1779–1854), painter
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), painter
• Étienne Bouhot (1780–1862), painter and art teacher
• Alexandre-François Caminade (1783–1862), portraitist and god-fearing painter
• François Rude (1784–1855), sculptor
• Eugénie Charen (1786–1824), painter
• Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851), photographer
• Charles de Steuben (1788–1856), painter tenacious during the Napoleonic Era
• Horace Vernet (1789–1863), painter
• Jules Robert Auguste (c.1789–1850), painter
• Elisa de Lamartine (1790–1863), cougar and sculptor
• Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), painter
• Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), painter
• Antoine-Louis Microbar (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 Goyet (1798–1857), painter
• Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), painter
• Xavier Leprince (1799–1826), 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
• Zoé Goyet (died 1869), pastel portrait artist
• Eugène Lepoittevin (1806–1870), 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 point 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, domestic engineer, photographer
• Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), painter
• Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824–1887), sculptor and painter
• Gustave Boulanger (1824–1888), 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 Aelfred Pabst (1828–1898), painter
• Achille Emperaire (1829–1898), painter and a friend break on Paul Cézanne
• Léon Germain Pelouse (1838–1891), painter
• Lucien Joulin (1842–1878), painter
• Gaston subordinate Laperriere (1848–1920), painter
• Gabriel Guay (1848–1923), painter
• Aimé Morot (1850–1915), painter deed son in law of Jean-Léon Gérôme
• Gabriel-Charles Deneux [fr] (b.

  1856), encaustic painter

• Jules-Cyrille Cavé (4 January 1859 – 12 May 1949), painter

Nineteenth century (Impressionism to Fauvism)

See along with Modern art, Modernism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Les Nabis, Fauvism, Symbolism, Translator painters, Art Nouveau, Primitivism

• Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), painter
• Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), photographer
• Édouard Manet (1832–1883), painter
• Gustave Doré (1832–1883), engraver
• Louis Émile Benassit (1833–1902) principal and raconteur
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917), puma, sculptor
• Pierre Mallet (1836–1898), painter recall 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 Carver (1840–1917), sculptor
• Claude Monet (1840–1926), painter; a founder of French Aper 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), catamount, sculptor
• Henry Lerolle (1848–1929), painter
• Eugène Carrière (1849–1906), painter
• Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (1851–1932), painter
• Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) (Dutch, spurious in France), painter
• Charles Angrand (1854–1926), painter
• Emilie Jenny Weyl (1855–1934), sculptor
• Édouard Bisson (1856–1939), painter
• 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 Carver (1861–1944), sculptor
• Louis Vivin (1861–1936), painter
• Antonio de la Gandara (1861–1917), painter
• Gaston Bussière (1862–1929), Symbolism movement puma 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 person in charge, 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 description water
• Albert Aurier (1865–1892), poet, convey critic and painter devoted work stoppage Symbolism
• Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter
• Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) (Swiss, worked in France), painter, engraver
• Jacqueline Marval (1866–1932), interpretation 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 Physiologist (1868–1941), painter
• Henri Matisse (1869–1954), cougar, other media
• Adolf de Meyer (1869–1949), photographer
• Georges d'Espagnat (1870–1950), painter, illustrator, engraver

Twentieth century (pre-World War II)

See also Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Modernity, Cubism, Puteaux Group, Dada, Surrealism

• Maurice Dubois (1869–1944), painter
• 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
• René Charles Edmond His, (1877–1960), landscape 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
• René Béclu (1881—1915), sculptor
• Charles Picart Le Doux (1881—1959), painter
• Albert Gleizes (1881–1952), painter, writer, theorist
• Henri Stunted Fauconnier (1881–1946), painter
• Jacob Macznik (1905–1945), painter^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
• Fernand Léger (1881–1955), painter
• Georges Painter (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
• Marie-Renée Ucciani (1883–1963), painter, sculptor
• 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 College (l'École de Rouen)
• Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1956), painter
• Jean (Hans) Arp (1886–1966), maestro, sculptor
• Marc Chagall (1887–1985) (born involved Belarus), painter
• Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), cougar, sculptor, other media
• Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889–1963), painter
• Anna Quinquaud (1890–1984), explorer president sculptor
• Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967) (Russian born), sculptor
• Sabine Desvallières (1891–1935), French embroiderer and nun
• 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), master, creator of lithographs
• Bram van Velde (1892–1981) (Dutch, worked in France), painter
• Chaïm Soutine (1894–1943) (born reaction Belarus), painter
• Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986), photographer
• Jean Maurice Rothschild (1902–1998), rooms artist, interior designer, muralist
• Gen Unpleasant (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), constellation, 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)

See also: Modern art

• René Pellos (1900–1998), cartoonist
• Madeleine Schlumberger or Marie d’Ailleurs’ (1900–1980), artist, writer
• Marcelle Bergerol (1901–1989), painter
• Michel-Marie Poulain (]1906–1991), painter
• Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) (Swiss, worked in Paris), constellation, painter
• Alfred-Georges Regner (1901–1987), painter, engraver
• Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), painter
• Charles Cobelle (1902–1994), painter
• Hans Bellmer (1902–1975) (French, inborn in Germany), sculptor, photographer, engraver
• Maurice Blanchard (1903–1969), painter
• Victor Brauner (1903–1966) (Romanian), painter
• Hans Hartung (1904–1992) (born in Germany), painter
• Jean Hélion (1904–1987), painter
• Pierre Tal-Coat (1905–1985), painter
• Elisa Frenchwoman (1906–2000), artist and writer, ordinal wife of French writer bear surrealist André Breton
• Henri Cadiou (1906–1989), painter
• Victor Vasarely (1908–1997) (born teeny weeny Hungary), painter
• Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski show off Rola, called "Balthus") (1908–2001) (Polish born), painter
• Mario Tauzin (1909–1979)
• Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq (1910–1973), illustrator
• Jacques Nathan Garamond (1910–2001), graphic designer, illustrator, painter
• Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910–2007) (born in Hungary), photographer
• Othello Radou (1910–2006), painter
• Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) (lived plus died in America), sculptor, mother media
• Ervin Marton (1912–1968), photographer come to rest artist
• Wols (1913–1951) (born in Germany), painter
• Pierre Wemaëre (1913–2010), painter
• Etienne Histrion (1913–1995), sculptor
• Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955) (French, Russian origin), painter
• Gérard Locardi (1915–1998), painter
• François Lanzi (1916–1988), painter
• Constantine Andreou (1917–2007) (Greek, Brazilian born), painter, sculptor
• Marcel Mouly (1918–2008), maestro, print maker
• Bernard Cathelin (1919–2004), painter
• Maurice Boitel (1919–2007), painter
• Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), painter
• Gabrielle Bellocq (1920–1999), painter
• César Baldaccini (called "César") (1921–1998), sculptor
• Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921–2021), painter
• Georges Mathieu (1921–2012), painter
• Francois Fiedler (1921–2001), painter
• Simon Hantaï (1922–2018) (born in Hungary), painter
• Paul Crotto (1922–2016), painter, sculptor and printmaker
• François Ozenda (1923–1976), painter
• Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) (Swiss), sculptor
• Robert Filliou (1926–1987), ruin media
• Raymond Hains (1926–2005), other media
• Paul Rebeyrolle (1926–2005), painter
• François Morellet (1926–2016), painter
• Jacques de la Villeglé (1926–2022), other media (ripped posters)
• François Dilasser (1926–2012), painter
• Georges Badin (1927–2014), painter
• Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), painter
• Yves Klein (1928–1962), painter
• Jacques Rivette (1928–2016), filmmaker
• Arman (Armand Fernandez) (1928–2005), sculptor
• Natalie d'Arbeloff (1929–), cartoonist and painter
• Gérard Gasiorowski (1930–1986), painter, other media
• Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930–2002), sculptor
• Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) (Uruguay/French, died in Santa Fe, Unusual Mexico), abstract realism
• Jules Michel (1931–), painter, sculptor
• Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019), genius, illustrator
• Bernard Rancillac (1931–2021), painter, sculptor
• Jean-Marie Straub (1933–2022) and Danièle Huillet (1936–2006), filmmakers
• Lydia Corbett (1934–), artist
• Jean Pierre Serrier (1934–1989), painter
• Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1934–2002) (son of Victor Vasarely), painter
• Jean-Michel Sanejouand (1934–2021), sculptor, painter
• Ben Vautier (called "Ben") (1935–), master, other media
• Martial Raysse (1936–), painter
• Daniel Buren (1938–), sculptor, painter
• Pierre Laffillé (1938–2011), painter
• Henri Sert (1938–1964), painter
• Gérard Fromanger (1939–2021), painter, other media
• Sandra Jayat (c.1939–), painter, poet, author
• Nancy Wilson-Pajic (1941–), media artist, reformist artist, installation artist, photographer
• Bernar Venet (1941–) (lives in America), sculptor
• Daniel Dezeuze (1942–), other media
• Anne Poirier (1942–), painter, other media
• Ksenia Milicevic (1942–), painter
• Tania Mouraud (1942–), new artist
• Jean Jacques Surian (1942–), puma and ceramist, lives in Marseilles
• Patrick Bokanowski (1943–), filmmaker
• Pierre Risch (1943–), painter, lithograph, engraver, designer, pastellist, watercolorist
• Slobodan Pajic (1943–), painter, communication artist, installation artist
• René-Louis Baron (1944–2016), conceptualist, algorithmic music composer
• Christian Boltanski (1944–2021), painter, photographer, other communication, sculptor
• Reine Mazoyer, (1944–), painter, illustrator, set designer
• Jacques Pellegrin (1944–2021), painter
• Henri Richelet (1944–2020), painter
• Thierry Agullo (1945–1980), mixed media
• Jean-Yves Lechevallier (1946–), sculptor
• Gérard Garouste (1946–), sculptor, painter, agitate media
• Jean-Marie Poumeyrol (1946–), painter
• Denis Schneider (1946–), painter
• Yves Hayat (1946–), painter
• Orlan (1947–), performance artist, body artist
• Champion Métadier (1947–), visual artist
• Bracha Glory.

  Ettinger (1948–) (born in Association Aviv), painter, photographer, new communication, artists' books

• Thibaut de Reimpré (1949–2023), abstract painter
• Claudine Drai (1951–), optical discernible artist
• Claude-Max Lochu (1951–), painter
• Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951–), painter, sculptor, photographer, writer
• Guillerm Zamor (1951–), painter, sculptor, writer
• Jean-Marc Bustamante (1952–), painter, sculptor, photographer
• Hélène Agofroy (1953–), contemporary artist
• Thierry Bisch (1953–), painter
• Bernard Frize (1954–), painter
• Michel Mimran (1954–)
• Jean Paul Leon (1955–), painter, sculptor, writer
• Joel Ducorroy (1955–), licence plate artist
• Patrick Moya (1955–), painter, sculptor, media artist (see fr:Patrick Moya)
• Patrick Mimran (1956–), compact disk artist
• Michel De Caso (1956–), maestro, sculptor
• Robert Combas (1957–), painter
• Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen) (1957–), media artist
• Pascal Lecocq (1958–) painter, set designer
• Emmanuel Flipo (1958–), painter
• Thierry Noir (1958–), artist and muralist
• Hervé Di Rosa (1959–), painter
• Zaven Paré (1961–), new-found media artist
• Corinne Medina-Saludo [fr] (1961–), panther and drawer
• Victor Orly (1962–), (lives and works in Marseilles), maestro, ceramist
• Pierre Huyghe (1962–), media, husk, video
• Bibi (1964–), installation artist
• Damien Valero (1965–), mixed media artist
• Marie Jaffredo (1966–), comics creator
• Manu Farrarons (1967–), tattoo artist, graphic designer, illustrator, other media
• Lionel Estève (1967–), (lives and works in Brussels), sculp and installation artist
• Phil.

  Macquet (1967–), painter

• Johanna Schipper (known as "Johanna"; 1967–), bande dessinée artist
• Béatrice Cussol (1970–), watercolor, drawing, mural
• Elsa Dax (1972–), painter
• Béatrice Tillier (1972–), illustrator and bande dessinée cartoonist
• Virginie Augustin (1973–), comics and animated nature artist
• Jean-François Batellier (1974–), caricaturist attend to cartoonist
• Abdelkader Benchamma (1975–), drawings, sculptor
• Morgane Tschiember (1976–), sculptor, video artist
• Y Liver (1977–) (lives and frown in Paris), video maker captivated performance artists
• Aude Massot (1983–), droll book artist
• Oriane Lassus (1987–), cartoonist and illustrator
• Seb Toussaint (1988–), maestro and muralist
• Jisbar (1989–), artist wallet painter

French photographers

See also: List treat French photographers and Category:French photographers

• Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927)
• Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born flat 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) (1910–2007), 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, titled "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 sit military officer
• Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951–)
• Xavier Veilhan (1963–), photographer, other media
• Jean-Marie Businessman (1828–1899)
• Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913–1951) (German, worked in France), photographer

See also

References