| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Jean Arp |
Sculptor |
16-Sep-1887 |
7-Jun-1966 |
Avant-garde sculptor, Dadaist |
| Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi |
Sculptor |
2-Aug-1834 |
4-Oct-1904 |
Statue of Liberty |
| Rosa Bonheur |
Painter |
16-Mar-1822 |
25-May-1899 |
Horse Fair |
| Pierre Bonnard |
Artist |
3-Oct-1867 |
23-Jan-1947 |
Les Nabis painter and lithographer |
| Adolphe-William Bouguereau |
Painter |
30-Nov-1835 |
19-Aug-1905 |
The Abduction of Psyche |
| Georges Braque |
Painter |
13-May-1882 |
31-Aug-1963 |
Co-Founded Cubism |
| Paul Cézanne |
Painter |
19-Jan-1839 |
22-Oct-1906 |
Post-Impressionist French painter |
| Marc Chagall |
Artist |
7-Jul-1887 |
28-Mar-1985 |
I and the Village |
| Camille Claudel |
Sculptor |
8-Dec-1864 |
19-Oct-1943 |
French sculptor, mistress of Rodin |
| Jean Cocteau |
Poet |
5-Jul-1889 |
11-Oct-1963 |
La Belle et la Bête |
| Camille Corot |
Painter |
16-Jul-1796 |
22-Feb-1875 |
French landscape painter |
| Gustave Courbet |
Painter |
10-Jun-1819 |
31-Dec-1877 |
French Realist painter |
| Pierre-Jean David d'Angers |
Sculptor |
12-Mar-1789 |
4-Jan-1856 |
Sculpted pediment of the Panthéon |
| Charles-François Daubigny |
Painter |
15-Feb-1817 |
19-Feb-1878 |
French painter of landscapes, ducks |
| Honoré Daumier |
Artist |
20-Feb-1808 |
11-Feb-1879 |
Caricaturist and satirist |
| Jacques-Louis David |
Painter |
30-Aug-1748 |
29-Dec-1825 |
French Neoclassical painter |
| Alexandre Decamps |
Painter |
3-Mar-1803 |
22-Aug-1860 |
French romanticist, painted monkeys |
| Edgar Degas |
Painter |
19-Jul-1834 |
27-Sep-1917 |
Impressionist painter |
| Eugène Delacroix |
Painter |
26-Apr-1798 |
13-Aug-1863 |
19th century French painter |
| Paul Delaroche |
Painter |
17-Jul-1797 |
4-Nov-1856 |
French academic painter; The Young Martyr |
| Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon |
Artist |
4-Jan-1747 |
27-Apr-1825 |
Napoleonic archaeologist |
| André Derain |
Painter |
10-Jun-1880 |
8-Sep-1954 |
Fauvist |
| Gustave Doré |
Engraver |
6-Jan-1832 |
23-Jan-1883 |
Book illustrator on steelplate |
| Marcel Duchamp |
Artist |
28-Jul-1887 |
2-Oct-1968 |
Lead proponent of Dadaism |
| Raoul Dufy |
Painter |
3-Jun-1877 |
23-Mar-1953 |
French Fauvist painter |
| Jules Dupré |
Painter |
5-Apr-1811 |
6-Oct-1889 |
Barbizon school |
| Erté |
Artist |
23-Nov-1892 |
21-Apr-1990 |
Art deco fashion designer and artist |
| Henri Fantin-Latour |
Painter |
14-Jan-1836 |
25-Aug-1904 |
French painter and printmaker |
| Leonor Fini |
Painter |
30-Aug-1907 |
18-Jan-1996 |
Surrealist painter, sex kitten |
| Jean-Honoré Fragonard |
Painter |
5-Apr-1732 |
22-Aug-1806 |
The Swing |
| Paul Gauguin |
Painter |
7-Jun-1848 |
8-May-1903 |
French post-impressionist painter |
| Théodore Géricault |
Painter |
26-Sep-1791 |
26-Jan-1824 |
French Romanticist painter |
| Jean-Leon Gerome |
Painter |
11-May-1824 |
10-Jan-1904 |
French Orientalist painter and sculptor |
| François Girardon |
Sculptor |
17-Mar-1628 |
1-Sep-1715 |
French sculptor under Louis XIV and XV |
| Charles Gleyre |
Painter |
2-May-1808 |
5-May-1874 |
Apocalyptic Vision of St. John |
| Michel Gondry |
Film Director |
8-May-1963 |
|
Innovative music video director |
| Jean-Baptiste Greuze |
Painter |
21-Aug-1725 |
21-Mar-1805 |
French genre painter |
| Jean-Antoine Houdon |
Sculptor |
20-Mar-1741 |
15-Jul-1828 |
French Rococo sculptor |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres |
Painter |
29-Aug-1780 |
14-Jan-1867 |
Odalisque |
| Nicolas Jenson |
Engraver |
1420 |
Sep-1480 |
Created the Roman miniscule |
| Aristide Maillol |
Sculptor |
8-Apr-1861 |
27-Sep-1944 |
Sculptor of the female nude |
| Edouard Manet |
Painter |
23-Jan-1832 |
30-Apr-1883 |
French Realist/Impressionist painter |
| Henri Matisse |
Painter |
31-Dec-1869 |
3-Nov-1954 |
Free, expressive French painter |
| Claude Monet |
Painter |
14-Nov-1840 |
5-Dec-1926 |
The Water Lilies |
| Berthe Morisot |
Painter |
14-Jan-1841 |
2-Mar-1895 |
French Impressionist painter |
| Jean Moulin |
Government |
20-Jun-1899 |
8-Jul-1943 |
Martyr of the French Resistance |
| Francis Picabia |
Painter |
22-Jan-1879 |
30-Nov-1953 |
Cubist, Dadaist |
| Camille Pissarro |
Painter |
10-Jul-1830 |
13-Nov-1903 |
French Impressionist painter |
| Nicolas Poussin |
Painter |
1594 |
19-Nov-1665 |
17th c. French classicist painter |
| Odilon Redon |
Artist |
22-Apr-1840 |
6-Jul-1916 |
Symbolist charcoal artist |
| Serge Reggiani |
Musician |
2-May-1922 |
22-Jul-2004 |
French singer, actor, painter |
| Auguste Renoir |
Painter |
25-Feb-1841 |
3-Dec-1919 |
Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette |
| Auguste Rodin |
Sculptor |
12-Nov-1840 |
17-Nov-1917 |
Sculptor in bronze |
| Georges Rouault |
Painter |
27-May-1871 |
13-Feb-1958 |
Expressionist painter of clowns, Christs |
| Henri Rousseau |
Painter |
21-May-1844 |
2-Sep-1910 |
French painter of the exotic |
| Théodore Rousseau |
Painter |
15-Apr-1812 |
22-Dec-1867 |
French landscape painter |
| Jacques Sarrazin |
Painter |
1588 |
3-Dec-1660 |
Painted western dome of the Louvre |
| Georges Seurat |
Painter |
2-Dec-1859 |
29-Mar-1891 |
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte |
| Chaim Soutine |
Painter |
1894 |
8-Aug-1944 |
Expressionist painter, Carcass of Beef |
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
Painter |
24-Nov-1864 |
9-Sep-1901 |
Dwarfish painter of France's Moulin Rouge |
| Madame Tussaud |
Sculptor |
1-Dec-1761 |
16-Apr-1850 |
Wax sculptor |
| Antoine Watteau |
Painter |
10-Oct-1684 |
18-Jul-1721 |
Rococo painter of fêtes galantes |
| Gao Xingjian |
Author |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Chinese expatriate, novelist |
