1. Nicolas-Jacques Conté (1755)

French Painter

Balloonist and army officer who also invented the modern pencil. He was known for his mechanical genius that aided the French army in Egypt greatly.

2. Rosa Bonheur (1822)

French Painter

French artist and sculptor known for her two famous works: Ploughing in the Nivernais in 1848 and The Horse Fair in 1853. In March of 2022, Google celebrated his 200th...

3. Gustave Courbet (1819)

French Painter

French painter and leader of the 19th century realist movement whose best known works included "Seaside" and "Sleep." He used his art to challenge the established social and moral structures...

4. Gustave Moreau (1826)

French Painter

Symbolist painter best known for 'Oedipus and the Sphinx' and other works featuring mythological and biblical images. He taught such future notables as Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault while a professor at...

5. Alexandre Falguière (1831)

French Painter

French sculptor and painter known for his bronze statues and other works, including Victor of the Cockfight, made in 1864.

6. Gustave Doré (1832)

French Painter

French artist who was known for his work with wood engraving. He also illustrated the works of Lord Byron.

7. Alfred Sisley (1839)

French Painter

Famous for his Impressionist landscapes, this nineteenth-century French-born painter is remembered for Church in Moret (1889); Molesey Weir – Morning (1874); Flood at Port-Marly (1876), and numerous other works.

8. Paul Cézanne (1839)

French Painter

Post-Impressionist painter whose best-known works included "The Card Players" and "The Bathers." His work formed the bridge between Impressionism and Cubism.

9. Edgar Degas (1834)

French Painter

French Impressionist painter whose famous ballet-themed works included "Dance Class" and "Fin d'Arabesque." Considered to be one of the founders of Impressionism, a term he refused to accept.

10. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841)

French Painter

Impressionist painter whose best-known works included "The Swing" and "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette." He loved vibrant, saturated colors and often painted female nudes. He was inspired by...

11. Antonin Mercié (1845)

French Painter

French sculptor and painter known for his monuments of Robert E. Lee, Marquis de Lafayette, and Francis Scott Key.

12. Berthe Morisot (1841)

French Painter

A prominent member of the nineteenth-century French Impressionist movement, Morisot is particularly remembered for her masterwork The Cradle (1872). Her other major works include Reading (1873), Lady at her Toilette...

13. Aristide Maillol (1861)

French Painter

French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker. He made the lead sculpture La Rivière, housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

14. Paul Signac (1863)

French Painter

Neo-Impressionist painter of "Antibes-Morning," "The Bonaventure Pine," "Saint Tropez," "Port St. Tropez," "The Papal Palace," and other pointillist works.

15. Francis Picabia (1879)

French Painter

French painter associated with Dada, Surrealism, and Cubism and known for works such as "Horses" from 1911 and "Tarentelle" from 1912.

16. André Derain (1880)

French Painter

French artist and sculptor who co-founded Fauvism with Henri Matisse and was awarded the Carnegie Prize in 1928.

17. Albert Gleizes (1881)

French Painter

French Abstract and Cubist painter and art theorist whose best-known works include La Chasse (The Hunt), Composition pour Jazz (Composition for Jazz), and Paysage Cubiste (Cubist Landscape).

18. Sonia Delaunay (1885)

French Painter

Russian-French artist associated with the Orphism art movement and known for her use of vibrant colors and geometric shapes. She became the first living female artist to be honored by...

19. Jean Arp (1886)

French Painter

Sculptor and painter who is associated with the Dada and Surrealist movement and whose medium included plaster and paper.

20. Robert Delaunay (1885)

French Painter

Co-founded the Orphism movement; known for his abstract and geometric paintings that incorporated his passion for color, depth, and tone. He was known for his Saint-Sévrin series, the City series,...

21. Leo Michelson (1887)

French Painter

Latvian-American artist whose works were considered part of the École de Paris. He was one of the pioneers of German Expressionism.

22. Michel Kikoine (1892)

French Painter

Belarusian-born French artist who was best known for "Paysage Cezannien" and other landscape paintings.

23. Yves Tanguy (1900)

French Painter

Surrealist painter known for works such as "Indefinite Divisibility" from 1942 and "Mama, Papa is Wounded!" from 1927.

24. Jean Dubuffet (1901)

French Painter

Painter and sculptor whose humanistic aesthetic incorporated elements of low art. Also known for his collaboration with musician Jasun Martz on "The Pillory," an avant-garde symphony.

25. Hans Bellmer (1902)

French Painter

German sculptor who made life-sized pubescent female dolls, as well as sexual photographs, paintings, and prints.

26. Pascal Foucart (1961)

French Painter

Pascal Foucart is a French artist born in the sixties and living in Paris France.

27. Alice Prin (1901)

French Painter

Alice Ernestine Prin nicknamed Queen of Montparnasse and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse was a French artist's model nightclub singer actress memoirist and painter. She flourished in and helped...

28. Hermine David (1886)

French Painter

Hermine Lionette Cartan David was a French painter and the wife of Jules Pascin also a painter.

29. Suzanne Valadon (1865)

French Painter

Suzanne Valadon was a French painter born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe Haute-Vienne France. In 1894 Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was...

30. Thierry Noir (Unknow)

French Painter

Thierry Noir is a French artist who is claimed to be the first street artist to paint the Berlin Wall. His brightly colored paintings which often feature cartoon-like profiles are...

31. Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921)

French Painter

Claude Bonin-Pissarro is a French painter and graphic designer. He is the son of Jeanne Pissarro and the grandson of painter Camille Pissarro. He is the father of French painter...

32. Julie Manet (1878)

French Painter

Julie Manet was a French painter and art collector. Born in Paris Julie Manet was the daughter and only child of artist Berthe Morisot and Eugene Manet younger brother of...

33. Arnaud Courlet de Vregille (1958)

French Painter

Arnaud Courlet de Vregille is a French painter.

34. Geneviève Asse (1923)

French Painter

Geneviève Asse is a French painter.

35. Ben Vautier (1935)

French Painter

Ben Vautier also known simply as Ben is a French artist. Vautier lives and works in Nice where he ran a record shop called Magazin between 1958 and 1973. He...

36. André Jean (1662)

French Painter

André Jean was a French artist. Jean was born in Paris and became a Dominican in 1679. He went to Rome where he received lessons from Carlo Maratti and studied...

37. Félix Lionnet (1832)

French Painter

élix Lionnet was a French Painter born at La Châtaigneraie Vendée on December 15 1832 the son of Félix Lionnet a goldsmith and his wife Marthe Clémentine Lebel. The Lebels...

38. Gérard Fromanger (Unknow)

French Painter

Gérard Fromanger is a French artist born on 6 September 1939 in Jouars-Pontchartrain Yvelines. A painter who has also used collage sculpture photography cinema and lithography he is associated with...

39. Joseph-Marie Vien (1716)

French Painter

Joseph-Marie Vien French painter was born at Montpellier. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi serving from 1789 to 1791.

40. Charles Maurin (1874)

French Painter

Charles Maurin was a French painter engraver and an anarchist who practiced a variety of styles. A notable symbolist work of his being Maternity a study of motherhood. He was...

41. Francine Van Hove (Unknow)

French Painter

Van Hove is a contemporary French painter. Born in 1942 in Saint-Mandé she studied in Paris and received a Fine Arts degree with qualifications to teach in secondary schools. After...

42. Annette Messager (1943)

French Painter

Annette Messager is a French artist who was born on 30 November 1943 in Berck. Messager is known mainly for her installation work which often incorporates photographs prints and drawings...

43. Charles Le Roux (Unknow)

French Painter

Marie-Guillaume Charles Le Roux was a landscape painter of the Barbizon school. He was born and died in Nantes and is noted for his paintings of the Loire and its...

44. Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735)

French Painter

Étienne de La Vallée Poussin was a French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes.

45. Christian Boltanski (1944)

French Painter

Christian Boltanski is a French sculptor photographer painter and film maker. He is the brother of Luc Boltanski and the partner of Annette Messager.

46. Henri Richelet (Unknow)

French Painter

Henri Richelet born 16 June 1944 in Frebécourt is a French painter.

47. Alain Lestié (1944)

French Painter

Alain Lestié is a French painter and writer born in Hossegor in 1944 who lives and works in Cannes and in Paris. Since the end of the 1960s Alain Lestié's...

48. Gérard Manset (1945)

French Painter

Gérard Manset is a French singer-songwriter painter photographer and writer. He is best known for his musical work. Since 1972 the covers of his albums state his name as simply...

49. Bernard Dumaine (1926)

French Painter

Bernard Dumaine is a French artist best known for his work in photorealism styles and for his background designs for television cartoons. He works in a variety of media including...

50. Gérard Garouste (1946)

French Painter

Gérard Garouste is a French painter illustrator and decorator. Since 1979 he has lived and worked in Marcilly-sur-Eure in the department of Eure where he founded an educational and social...