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 Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.

Middle Ages

Gislebertus (12th century), sculptor Pierre de Montreuil (–1266), architect Villard de Honnecourt (13th century), other media Jean Pucelle (active 1325–28), other media Jean Malouel (Dutch, worked in Burgundy) (1365–1415), painter Anastasia (fl. ), manuscript illuminator Claus Sluter (Dutch, worked in Burgundy from 1395–1406), sculptor the Limbourg brothers (Pol and Hermann) (Dutch artists working in Burgundy around 1403–1416), other media

Renaissance

Jacques Morel (–1459), sculptor Enguerrand Quarton (), painter, miniatures Henri Bellechose (Flemish born) (active 1415–1440), painter Simon Marmion (–1489), illuminations Jean Fouquet (1420–1481), painter, illuminations Jean Colombe (1430–1493), illuminations Michel Colombe (), sculptor Nicolas Froment (), painter Jean Perréal (), painter, illuminations Antoine Le Moiturier (active in the 1460s), sculptor Jean Clouet (–1541) (Flemish born), painter, miniatures Jean Duvet (), engraver Josse Lieferinxe (active 1493–1508) (Flemish born), painter Nicolas Dipre (fl. 1495–1532), painter Jehan Cousin the elder (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 (), sculptor Bernard Palissy (1510–1590), master potter Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (–1585), architectural plans Jean Juste (active 1515–1530), sculptor François Clouet (–1572) (son of Jean Clouet), painter Pierre Lescot (–1578), sculptor, architect Antoine Caron (–1599), painter Jean Cousin 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 Classicism, Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, Baroque, Louis XIV, 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 La 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. 1600–c. 1650), draftsman 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, other 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 and engraver Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636–1697), engraver Charles de 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 life painter Marie Blancour (fl. 1650–1699), painter Marie Courtois (c.1655–1703), miniature 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 Palace of Versailles, Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour, Rococo, Louis XVI, Neoclassicism, Enlightenment, Gobelins. For art criticism, see Denis Diderot Alexis Simon Belle (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 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), 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 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 Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721–1820), draughtsman, watercolorist, painter in gouache 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-Baptiste Defernex (1729–1783), sculptor Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), painter Jean-Jacques Durameau (1733–1796), painter Hubert Robert (1733–1808), painter, engraver Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734–1772), painter Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802), painter Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735–1802), French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761–1824), painter Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1735–1784), painter Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre (1739–c.1800), painter A. Duval, artist and engraver active 1769-1801 Jean Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), sculptor Jean-Michel Moreau (Moreau the 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 Garnier (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), painter known for his landscapes Pierre Prudhon (1758–1823), painter

Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism) See also French Revolution, Napoleon, Romanticism, Barbizon school, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Academic art, Napoleon III, Photography, Modernism Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), painter Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), photographer Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825), 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 Adélaïde Victoire Hall (1772–1844), painter Benjamin de Rolland (1773-1855), painter Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777–1837), painter, 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 religious painter François Rude (1784–1855), sculptor Eugénie Charen (1786–1824), painter Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851), photographer Charles de Steuben (1788–1856), painter active during the Napoleonic Era Horace Vernet (1789–1863), painter Jules Robert Auguste (c.1789–1850), painter Elisa de Lamartine (1790–1863), painter and sculptor Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), painter Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), painter Antoine-Louis Barye (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 François-Gabriel Lépaulle (1804-1888), painter Camille Chantereine (1810–1847), painter Achille Devéria (1800–1857), painter, engraver Charles Philipon (1800–1861), caricaturist Hippolyte Bayard (1801–1887), photographer 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 Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), painter, lithographer, sculptor Louis Boulanger (1806–1867), 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 de Boisdenier (1813–1866), painter Charles Jacque (1813–1894), painter Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), painter Thomas Couture (1815–1879), painter Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet (1815–1886), lithographer 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, civil 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