List of French artists
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media. For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of :Category:French artists|Category:French artists. 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- Gislebertus, sculptor
- Pierre de Montreuil, architect
- Villard de Honnecourt, other media
- Jean Pucelle, other media
- Jean Malouel , painter
- Anastasia, manuscript illuminator
- Claus Sluter, sculptor
- the Limbourg brothers , other media
Renaissance
- Jacques Morel, sculptor
- Enguerrand Quarton, painter, miniatures
- Henri Bellechose , painter
- Simon Marmion, illuminations
- Jean Fouquet, painter, illuminations
- Jean Colombe, illuminations
- Michel Colombe, sculptor
- Nicolas Froment, painter
- Jean Perréal, painter, illuminations
- Antoine Le Moiturier, sculptor
- Jean Clouet , painter, miniatures
- Jean Duvet, engraver
- Josse Lieferinxe , painter
- Nicolas Dipre, painter
- Jehan Cousin the elder, painter, engraver, sculptor
- Ligier Richier, sculptor
- Pierre Quesnel, painter
- Philibert Delorme , sculptor, architectural plans
- Pierre Bontemps, sculptor
- Jean Goujon, sculptor
- Bernard Palissy, master potter
- Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, architectural plans
- Jean Juste, sculptor
- François Clouet , painter
- Pierre Lescot, sculptor, architect
- Antoine Caron, painter
- Jean Cousin the Younger, painter
- Germain Pilon, sculptor
- Barthélemy Prieur, sculptor
- Étienne Dumonstier, painter
- Ambroise Dubois , painter
- Pierre Dumonstier I, painter
- Toussaint Dubreuil, painter
- Martin Fréminet, painter
- Frans Pourbus the younger , painter
- Jacques Bellange , engraver
- Jean Decourt, painter
- François Quesnel, painter
- Jacques Patin, engraver
- Jean de Beaugrand, lineographer
Seventeenth century
- Daniel Dumonstier, draftsman
- Pierre Dumonstier II, draftsman
- Claude Deruet , painter
- Simon Vouet, painter
- Jacques Callot , engraver
- Georges de La Tour, painter
- Nicolas Poussin, painter
- Antoine Le Nain, painter
- Louis Le Nain, painter
- Nicolas Lagneau, draftsman
- Abraham Bosse, engraver
- Claude Gelée, called Claude Lorrain, painter
- Philippe de Champaigne
- Pierre-Antoine Lemoine, still-life painter
- Laurent de La Hyre, painter
- Mathieu Le Nain, painter
- Louise Moillon, painter
- Pierre Mignard, painter
- Gaspard Dughet, painter
- André Le Nôtre, landscape architect
- Eustache Le Sueur, painter
- Sébastien Bourdon, painter
- Charles Le Brun, painter, other media
- Pierre Paul Puget, sculptor
- Guillaume Courtois, painter and etcher
- François Girardon, sculptor
- Catherine Duchemin, painter
- Claude Lefèbvre, painter and engraver
- Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, engraver
- Charles de la Fosse, painter
- Antoine Coysevox, sculptor
- Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella, engraver
- Étienne Allegrain, topographical painter
- Jean Jouvenet, painter
- François de Troy, painter
- Madeleine Boullogne, still life painter
- Marie Blancour, painter
- Marie Courtois, miniature painter
- Nicolas de Largillière, painter
- Nicolas Coustou, sculptor
- Hyacinthe Rigaud, painter
- Antoine Coypel, sculptor
- François Desportes, painter
Eighteenth century
- Alexis Simon Belle
- Jean-François de Troy , painter
- Marie-Anne Horthemels, engraver
- Antoine Watteau, painter
- Jean-Baptiste van Loo, painter
- Jean-Marc Nattier, painter
- Jean-Baptiste Oudry, painter
- Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, engraver
- François Lemoyne, painter
- Nicolas Lancret, painter
- Charles-Antoine Coypel, painter, art commentator, and playwright
- Jean-Baptiste Pater, painter
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, painter
- Charles Joseph Natoire, painter
- Louis-François Roubiliac, sculptor
- Jean-Étienne Liotard, painter
- François Boucher, painter, engraver
- Maurice Quentin de La Tour, painter
- Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, painter, sculptor
- Charles-André van Loo , painter
- Louis-Michel van Loo , painter
- Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, sculptor
- Claude Joseph Vernet, painter
- Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, painter
- Etienne-Maurice Falconet, sculptor
- Joseph-Marie Vien, painter
- Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo , painter
- Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, engraver, embroidery designer
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze, painter
- François-Hubert Drouais , painter
- Jean-Baptiste Defernex, sculptor
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painter
- Jean-Jacques Durameau, painter
- Hubert Robert, painter, engraver
- Marie-Suzanne Giroust, painter
- Joseph Ducreux, painter
- Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes
- Marie-Geneviève Navarre, portrait artist and miniaturist
- Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, painter
- Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, painter
- Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre, painter
- Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor
- Jean-Michel Moreau , engraver
- Anne Vallayer-Coster, painter
- Jacques-Louis David, painter
- Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, portrait artist
- Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine, portrait and landscape artist
- Antoine Berjon, painter and designer
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault
- Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter
- Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy, painter known for his landscapes
- Pierre Prudhon, painter
Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism)
- Louis-Léopold Boilly, painter
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, photographer
- Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter from Brittany
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, painter
- Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter
- Antoine Jean Gros, painter
- Pierre Narcisse Guérin, painter
- Adélaïde Victoire Hall, painter
- Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet, lithographer
- Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois, painter, draftsman
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, painter
- Étienne Bouhot, painter and art teacher
- Alexandre-François Caminade, portraitist and religious painter
- François Rude, sculptor
- Eugénie Charen, painter
- Louis-Jacques Daguerre, photographer
- Charles de Steuben, painter active during the Napoleonic Era
- Horace Vernet, painter
- Jules Robert Auguste, painter
- Elisa de Lamartine, painter and sculptor
- Théodore Géricault, painter
- Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, painter
- Antoine-Louis Barye, sculptor
- Ary Scheffer, painter
- Raymond Bonheur, painter
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter
- Paul Delaroche, painter
- Julie Hugo, painter
- Eugène Delacroix, painter
- Alfred Johannot, painter and engraver
- Hippolyte Bellangé, painter
- Achille Devéria, painter, engraver
- Charles Philipon, caricaturist
- Paul Huet, painter
- François-Émile de Lansac, painter
- Grandville , engraver
- Eugène Isabey, painter
- Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, painter
- Édouard Viénot, painter
- Hippolyte Bayard, photographer
- Honoré Daumier, painter, lithographer, sculptor
- Louis Boulanger, painter
- Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña , painter
- Auguste Préault, sculptor
- Ignace François Bonhomme, painter
- Constant Troyon, painter
- Eugène André Oudiné, sculptor, engraver
- Jules Dupré, painter
- Théodore Rousseau, painter
- Boissard de Boisdenier, painter
- Charles Jacque, painter
- Jean-François Millet, painter
- Thomas Couture, painter
- Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, painter
- Jacques-Eugene Feyen, painter
- Charles Marville, painter, engraver, photographer
- Antoine Chintreuil, painter
- Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna, painter
- François Bonvin, painter
- Charles-François Daubigny, painter
- Johan Barthold Jongkind , painter
- Théodore Chassériau, painter
- Gustave Courbet, painter
- Eugène Fromentin, painter
- Nadar , photographer
- Charles Méryon, printmaker
- Rosa Bonheur, painter
- Marie Adrien Persac, painter, cartographer, architect, civil engineer, photographer
- Alexandre Cabanel, painter
- Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, sculptor and painter
- Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter
- Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, painter
- Théodule Ribot, painter
- Eugène Boudin, painter
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painter
- Gustave Moreau, painter
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculptor
- Elie Delaunay, painter
- Camille Alfred Pabst, painter
- Achille Emperaire, painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne
- Lucien Joulin, painter
- Gaston de Laperriere, painter
- Aimé Morot, painter and son in law of Jean-Léon Gérôme
Nineteenth century (Impressionism to Fauvism)
- Camille Pissarro, painter
- Étienne-Jules Marey, photographer
- Édouard Manet, painter
- Gustave Doré, engraver
- Edgar Degas, painter, sculptor
- Pierre Mallet, painter of ceramics
- Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
- Jules Chéret, painter, other media
- Paul Cézanne, painter
- François Salle
- Odilon Redon, painter, draftsman, lithographer
- Auguste Rodin, sculptor
- Claude Monet, painter; a founder of French impressionist painting
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter
- Frédéric Bazille, painter
- Berthe Morisot, painter
- Marie Bracquemond, painter
- Fernand Pelez, painter
- Alexander Louis Leloir, painter
- Henri Rousseau , painter
- Jean Antonin Mercié, sculptor
- Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, painter
- Gustave Caillebotte, painter
- Henri Biva, painter
- Jules Bastien-Lepage, painter
- Paul Gauguin, painter, sculptor
- Henry Lerolle, painter
- Eugène Carrière, painter
- Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, painter
- Vincent van Gogh , painter
- Charles Angrand, painter
- Emilie Jenny Weyl, sculptor
- Henry Moret, painter
- Eugène Atget , photographer
- Mathurin Janssaud, painter
- Georges-Pierre Seurat, painter
- Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
- Aristide Maillol, sculptor
- Louis Vivin, painter
- Antonio de la Gandara, painter
- Gaston Bussière, Symbolism movement painter and illustrator
- Ernest de Chamaillard, painter
- Henri Delavallée, painter
- Paul Signac, painter
- Camille Bouvagne, painter
- René Georges Hermann-Paul, graphic artist, illustrator, painter
- William Didier-Pouget, painter
- Henri Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
- Paul Sérusier, painter
- Paul Ranson, painter
- Seraphine Louis, painter
- Henri Jourdain, painter, prints or lithographs of landscapes usually by the water
- Albert Aurier, poet, art critic and painter devoted to Symbolism
- Suzanne Valadon, painter
- Félix Vallotton , painter, engraver
- Jacqueline Marval, the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet, French painter
- Pierre Bonnard, painter
- Paule Gobillard, painter
- Jeanne Itasse-Broquet, sculptor
- Ker-Xavier Roussel, painter
- Hector Guimard, architect and decorator
- Édouard Vuillard, painter
- Georges Lacombe, sculptor
- Émile Bernard, painter
- Henri Matisse, painter, other media
- Adolf de Meyer, photographer
- Georges d'Espagnat, painter, illustrator, engraver
Twentieth century (pre-World War II)
- Georges Rouault, painter
- Léon Printemps, painter
- František Kupka , painter
- Henri-Charles Manguin, painter
- Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, painter
- Albert Marquet, painter
- Jacques Villon, painter
- Constantin Brâncuși , sculptor
- Maurice de Vlaminck , painter
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sculptor
- Raoul Dufy, painter
- Jeanne Baudot, painter
- Jean Crotti , painter
- Louis Marcoussis , painter
- Francis Picabia, painter
- André Derain, painter
- Joseph Hémard, illustrator
- Albert Gleizes, painter, writer, theorist
- Henri Le Fauconnier, painter
- Jacob Macznik, painter
- Fernand Léger, painter
- Georges Braque, painter
- Auguste Chabaud, painter
- Auguste Herbin, painter
- Jean Metzinger, painter, engraver, poet, writer, theorist
- Marie Laurencin, painter
- Maurice Utrillo, painter
- Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, painter
- Jacques Maroger, painter
- Robert Delaunay, painter
- André Dunoyer de Segonzac, painter
- Raymond Wintz, painter
- Pierre Brissaud, painter
- Roger de La Fresnaye, painter
- Robert Antoine Pinchon, French Post-Impressionist painter of the Rouen School
- Amédée Ozenfant, painter
- Jean Arp, painter, sculptor
- Marc Chagall , painter
- Marcel Duchamp, painter, sculptor, other media
- Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, painter
- Anna Quinquaud, explorer and sculptor
- Ossip Zadkine , sculptor
- Jacques Lipchitz , sculptor
- Max Ernst , painter, sculptor
- Louis Favre, painter, creator of lithographs
- Bram van Velde , painter
- Chaïm Soutine , painter
- Jacques Henri Lartigue, photographer
- Jean Maurice Rothschild, furniture artist, interior designer, muralist
- Gen Paul, painter, engraver
- Albert Gilles, metal embosser, working with copper
- André Masson, painter
- René Iché, sculptor, painter
- Jean Fautrier, painter
- Georges Gimel, painter,engraver,sculptor
- Henri Michaux , painter
- Brassaï , photographer
- Yves Tanguy , painter
Twentieth century (post-World War II)
- René Pellos, cartoonist
- Marcelle Bergerol, painter
- Madeleine Schlumberger or Marie d’Ailleurs’, artist, writer
- Alberto Giacometti , sculptor, painter
- Alfred-Georges Regner, painter, engraver
- Jean Dubuffet, painter
- Charles Cobelle, painter
- Hans Bellmer , sculptor, photographer, engraver
- Victor Brauner , painter
- Hans Hartung , painter
- Jean Hélion, painter
- Pierre Tal-Coat, painter
- Elisa Breton, artist and writer, third wife of French writer and surrealist André Breton
- Henri Cadiou, painter
- Victor Vasarely , painter
- Balthus , painter
- Mario Tauzin
- Lucien Hervé , photographer
- Othello Radou, painter
- Louise Bourgeois , sculptor, other media
- Ervin Marton, photographer and artist
- Wols , painter
- Pierre Wemaëre, painter
- Etienne Martin, sculptor
- Nicolas de Staël , painter
- Gerard Locardi, painter
- Jean-Yves Couliou, painter
- François Lanzi, painter
- Constantine Andreou , painter, sculptor
- Marcel Mouly, painter, print maker
- Bernard Cathelin, painter
- Maurice Boitel, painter
- Pierre Soulages, painter
- Gabrielle Bellocq, painter
- César Baldaccini , sculptor
- Claude Bonin-Pissarro, painter
- Georges Mathieu, painter
- Francois Fiedler, painter
- Simon Hantaï , painter
- Paul Crotto, painter, sculptor and printmaker
- François Ozenda, painter
- Jean Tinguely , sculptor
- Robert Filliou, other media
- Raymond Hains, other media
- Paul Rebeyrolle, painter
- François Morellet, painter
- Jacques de la Villeglé, other media
- Georges Badin, painter
- Bernard Buffet, painter
- Yves Klein, painter
- Jacques Rivette, filmmaker
- Arman , sculptor
- Gérard Gasiorowski, painter, other media
- Niki de Saint-Phalle, sculptor
- Gérard Laplau, folk artist
- Alvaro Guillot , abstract realism
- Jules Michel, painter, sculptor
- Tomi Ungerer, artist, illustrator
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, filmmakers
- Lydia Corbett, artist
- Jean-Pierre Yvaral , painter
- Jean-Michel Sanejouand, sculptor, painter
- Ben Vautier , painter, other media
- Martial Raysse, painter
- Daniel Buren, sculptor, painter
- Pierre Laffillé, painter
- Henri Sert, painter
- Gérard Fromanger, painter, other media
- Andrey Lekarski, painter, sculptor, media artist
- Nancy Wilson-Pajic, media artist, feminist artist, installation artist, photographer
- Bernar Venet , sculptor
- Daniel Dezeuze, other media
- Anne Poirier, painter, other media
- Ksenia Milicevic, painter
- Tania Mouraud, contemporary artist
- Jean Jacques Surian, painter and ceramist, lives in Marseilles
- Patrick Bokanowski, filmmaker
- Pierre Risch, painter, lithograph, engraver, designer, pastellist, watercolorist
- Slobodan Pajic, painter, media artist, installation artist
- René-Louis Baron, conceptualist, algorithmic music composer
- Christian Boltanski, painter, photographer, other media, sculptor
- Jacques Pellegrin, painter
- Henri Richelet, painter
- Thierry Agullo, mixed media
- Jean-Yves Lechevallier, sculptor
- Gérard Garouste, sculptor, painter, other media
- Jean-Marie Poumeyrol, painter
- Denis Schneider, painter
- Orlan, performance artist, body artist
- Bracha L. Ettinger , painter, photographer, new media, artists' books
- Guillerm Zamor, painter, sculptor, writer
- Thibaut de Reimpré, abstract painter
- Claude-Max Lochu, painter
- Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, painter, sculptor, photographer, writer
- Jean-Marc Bustamante, painter, sculptor, photographer
- Hélène Agofroy, contemporary artist
- Vanilla Beer, painter, daughter of Anthony Stafford Beer
- Thierry Bisch, painter
- Bernard Frize, painter
- Michel Mimran
- Jean Paul Leon, painter, sculptor, writer
- Joel Ducorroy, licence plate artist
- Patrick Moya, painter, sculptor, media artist
- Patrick Mimran, multimedia artist
- Michel De Caso, painter, sculptor
- Robert Combas, painter
- Maurice Benayoun , media artist
- Pascal Lecocq painter, set designer
- Emmanuel Flipo, painter
- Hervé Di Rosa, painter
- Zaven Paré, new media artist
- Victor Orly,, painter, ceramist
- Pierre Huyghe, media, film, video
- Bibi, installation artist
- Damien Valero, mixed media artist
- Manu Farrarons, tattoo artist, graphic designer, illustrator, other media
- Lionel Estève,, sculpture and installation artist
- Béatrice Cussol, watercolor, drawing, mural
- Elsa Dax, painter
- Jean-François Batellier, caricaturist and cartoonist
- Abdelkader Benchamma, drawings, sculptor
- Morgane Tschiember, sculptor, video artist
- Y Liver , video maker and performance artists
- Elena Mirolioubova, lives and works in Paris
- Natalie d'Arbeloff, cartoonist and painter
- Hom Nguyen, drawer, painter
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