List of French artists

Middle Ages

• 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
• Thomas de Leu, engraver
• Toussaint Dubreuil, painter
• Léonard Gaultier, engraver
• 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

• Philippe Millereau, painter
• Daniel Dumonstier, draftsman
• Pierre Dumonstier II, draftsman
• Claude Deruet , painter
• Simon Vouet, painter
• Jacques Callot , engraver
• Georges de La Tour, painter
• Claude Vignon, painter, printmaker, illustrator
• 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
• Charles-Louis Clérisseau, draughtsman, watercolorist, painter in gouache
• 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
• Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, painter
• Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, painter
• Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre, painter
• A. Duval, artist and engraver active 1769-1801
• 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
• Michel Garnier, painter
• Rosalie Filleul, painter
• Antoine Berjon, painter and designer
• Jean-Baptiste Regnault
• Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 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
• Benjamin de Rolland, painter
• Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois, painter, draftsman
• Jean-Baptiste Goyet, painter
• 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
• Fanny Alaux, painter
• Paul Delaroche, painter
• Julie Hugo, painter
• Eugène Goyet, painter
• Eugène Delacroix, painter
• Xavier Leprince, painter
• Alfred Johannot, painter and engraver
• Hippolyte Bellangé, painter
• François-Gabriel Lépaulle, painter
• Camille Chantereine, 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
• Zoé Goyet, pastel portrait artist
• Eugène Lepoittevin, 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
• Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet, lithographer
• 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
• Gustave Boulanger, 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
• Léon Germain Pelouse, painter
• Lucien Joulin, painter
• Gaston de Laperriere, painter
• Gabriel Guay, painter
• Aimé Morot, painter and son in law of Jean-Léon Gérôme
• , encaustic painter
• Jules-Cyrille Cavé, painter

  Nineteenth century (Impressionism to Fauvism)

• Camille Pissarro, painter
• Étienne-Jules Marey, photographer
• Édouard Manet, painter
• Gustave Doré, engraver
• Louis Émile Benassit artist and raconteur
• 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
• Henri-Louis Dupray, 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
• Édouard Bisson, painter
• Henry-Edmond Cross, painter
• Henry Moret, painter
• Eugène Atget , photographer
• Mathurin Janssaud, painter
• Marie Bashkirtseff, painter and sculptor
• 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
• Angèle Delasalle, 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