List of French artists - wikipedia List of French artists French art history Overview Categories Historical periods Prehistoric Medieval Gothic Renaissance 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century French artists Artists ( chronological ) Artists -- Painters Sculptors -- Architects Photographers Thematic Art movements ( chronological ) Art movements ( category ) Salons and academies French art museums Most visited Impressionism -- Cubism Dada -- Surrealism See also Art portal France portal Western art history 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. Contents 1 Middle Ages 2 Renaissance 3 Seventeenth century 4 Eighteenth century 5 Nineteenth century ( Romanticism to Impressionism ) 6 Nineteenth century ( Impressionism to Fauvism ) 7 Twentieth century ( pre-World War II ) 8 Twentieth century ( post-World War II ) 9 French photographers 10 See also 11 References Middle Ages See also Middle Ages, Gothic architecture, Illuminated manuscript Gislebertus ( 12th century ), sculptor Pierre de Montreuil ( c. 1200 -- 1266 ), architect Villard de Honnecourt ( 13th century ), other media Jean Pucelle ( active 1325 -- 28 ), other media Jean Malouel ( Dutch, worked in Burgundy ) ( 1365 - 1416 ), painter Anastasia ( fl. c. 1400 ), 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 See also Renaissance, Francis I of France, Henry II of France, Catherine de ' Medici, Henry III of France, Henry IV of France, Louvre, Fontainebleau, Châteaux of the Loire Valley Jacques Morel ( c. 1395 -- 1459 ), sculptor Enguerrand Quarton ( c. 1410 -- c. 1466 ), painter, miniatures Henri Bellechose ( Flemish born ) ( active 1415 - 1440 ), painter Simon Marmion ( c. 1420 -- 1489 ), illuminations Jean Fouquet ( 1420 -- 1481 ), painter, illuminations Jean Colombe ( 1430 -- 1493 ), illuminations Michel Colombe ( c. 1430 -- 1515 ), sculptor Nicolas Froment ( c. 1450 -- c. 1490 ), painter Jean Perréal ( c. 1455 -- 1528 ), painter, illuminations Antoine Le Moiturier ( active in the 1460s ), sculptor Jean Clouet ( c. 1485 -- 1541 ) ( Flemish born ), painter, miniatures Jean Duvet ( c. 1485 -- c. 1570 ), 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 Philibert Delorme ( or de L'Orme ) ( 1505 / 1510 -- 1570 ), sculptor, architectural plans Pierre Bontemps ( 1505 / 1510 -- after 1562 ), sculptor Jean Goujon ( c. 1510 -- 1565 ? ), sculptor Bernard Palissy ( 1510 -- 1590 ), master potter Jacques Androuet du Cerceau ( c. 1510 -- 1585 ), architectural plans Jean Juste ( active 1515 -- 1530 ), sculptor François Clouet ( c. 1515 -- 1572 ) ( son of Jean Clouet ), painter Pierre Lescot ( c. 1515 -- 1578 ), sculptor, architect Antoine Caron ( c. 1521 -- 1599 ), painter Jean Cousin the Younger ( c. 1522 -- 1593 ), painter Germain Pilon ( c. 1535 -- 1590 ), sculptor Ambroise Dubois ( c. 1542 -- 1614 ) ( Flemish born ), painter Barthélemy Prieur ( c. 1536 -- 1616 ), sculptor Toussaint Dubreuil ( c. 1561 -- 1602 ), painter 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 Pierre Quesnel ( c. 1502 -- 1580 ), painter Jacques Patin ( active 1580s ), engraver Jean de Beaugrand ( 1584 -- 1640 ), lineographer Claude Deruet ( 1588 -- 1660 ) ( in Lorraine ), painter Seventeenth century See also French Baroque and Classicism, Louis XIII of France, Cardinal Richelieu, Baroque, Louis XIV of France, Palace of Versailles, Classicism Simon Vouet ( 1590 -- 1649 ), painter Jacques Callot ( 1592 -- 1635 ) ( in Lorraine ), engraver Georges de La Tour ( 1593 -- 1652 ), painter 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 of France, Madame de Pompadour, Rococo, Louis XVI of France, 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 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 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 Antoine Berjon ( 1754 -- 1843 ), painter and designer Jean - Baptiste Regnault ( 1754 -- 1829 ) Elisabeth Vigee - Lebrun ( 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 I, Romanticism, Barbizon school, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Academic art, Napoleon III of France, 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 Eustache - Hyacinthe Langlois ( 1777 -- 1837 ), painter, draftsman 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 Théodore Géricault ( 1791 -- 1824 ), painter Nicolas Toussaint Charlet ( 1792 -- 1845 ), painter Antoine - Louis Barye ( 1795 -- 1875 ), sculptor Ary Scheffer ( 1795 -- 1858 ), painter Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot ( 1796 -- 1875 ), painter Paul Delaroche ( 1797 -- 1856 ), painter Eugène Delacroix ( 1798 -- 1863 ), painter Alfred Johannot ( 1800 -- 1837 ), painter and engraver Hippolyte Bellangé ( 1800 -- 1866 ), painter Achille Devéria ( 1800 -- 1857 ), painter, engraver 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 Hippolyte Bayard ( 1807 -- 1887 ), photographer Honoré Daumier ( 1808 -- 1879 ), painter, lithographer, sculptor Louis Boulanger ( 1808 -- 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 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 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 Achille Emperaire ( 1829 -- 1898 ), painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne Gaston de Laperriere ( 1848 - 1920 ), painter Aimé Morot ( 1850 - 1915 ), painter and son in law of Jean - Léon Gérôme Camille Bouvagne ( 1864 -- 1936 ), painter Jeanne Baudot ( 1877 -- 1957 ), painter and the only assistant and pupil of Auguste Renoir Nineteenth century ( Impressionism to Fauvism ) See also Modern art, Modernism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Les Nabis, Fauvism, Symbolism, Symbolist painters, Art Nouveau, Primitivism Camille Pissarro ( 1830 -- 1903 ), painter Étienne - Jules Marey ( 1830 -- 1904 ), photographer Édouard Manet ( 1832 -- 1883 ), painter Gustave Doré ( 1832 -- 1883 ), engraver Edgar Degas ( 1834 -- 1917 ), painter, sculptor Pierre Mallet ( 1836 - 1898 ), painter of ceramics Henri Fantin - Latour ( 1836 -- 1904 ), painter Jules Chéret ( 1836 -- 1932 ), painter, other media Paul Cézanne ( 1839 -- 1906 ), painter François Salle ( 1839 -- 1899 ) Odilon Redon ( 1840 -- 1916 ), painter, draftsman, lithographer Auguste Rodin ( 1840 -- 1917 ), sculptor Claude Monet ( 1840 -- 1926 ), painter ; a founder of French impressionist painting Pierre - Auguste Renoir ( 1841 -- 1919 ), painter Frédéric Bazille ( 1841 -- 1870 ), painter Berthe Morisot ( 1841 -- 1895 ), painter Marie Bracquemond ( 1841 -- 1916 ), painter Fernand Pelez ( 1843 -- 1913 ), painter Alexander Louis Leloir ( 1843 -- 1884 ), painter Henri Rousseau ( `` Le Douanier Rousseau '' ) ( 1844 -- 1910 ), painter Jean Antonin Mercié ( 1845 -- 1916 ), sculptor Jean - Joseph Benjamin - Constant ( 1845 -- 1902 ), painter Gustave Caillebotte ( 1848 -- 1894 ), painter Henri Biva ( 1848 -- 1929 ), painter Jules Bastien - Lepage ( 1848 -- 1884 ), painter Paul Gauguin ( 1848 -- 1903 ), painter, sculptor Henry Lerolle ( 1848 -- 1929 ), painter Eugène Carrière ( 1849 -- 1906 ), painter Pierre Carrier - Belleuse ( 1851 -- 1932 ), painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853 -- 1890 ) ( Dutch, worked in France ), painter Charles Angrand ( 1854 -- 1926 ), painter Henry Moret ( 1856 -- 1913 ), painter Eugène Atget ( Jean - Eugène Auguste Atget ) ( 1857 -- 1927 ), photographer Mathurin Janssaud ( 1857 -- 1940 ), painter Georges - Pierre Seurat ( 1859 -- 1891 ), painter Antoine Bourdelle ( 1861 -- 1929 ), sculptor Aristide Maillol ( 1861 -- 1944 ), sculptor Louis Vivin ( 1861 -- 1936 ), painter Antonio de la Gandara ( 1861 -- 1917 ), painter Gaston Bussière ( 1862 -- 1929 ), Symbolism movement painter and illustrator Ernest de Chamaillard ( 1862 -- 1931 ), painter Henri Delavallée ( 1862 -- 1943 ), painter Paul Signac ( 1863 -- 1935 ), painter René Georges Hermann - Paul ( 1864 -- 1940 ), graphic artist, illustrator, painter William Didier - Pouget ( 1864 -- 1959 ), painter Henri Marie de Toulouse - Lautrec ( 1864 -- 1901 ), painter Paul Sérusier ( 1864 -- 1927 ), painter Paul Ranson ( 1864 -- 1909 ), painter Seraphine Louis ( 1864 -- 1942 ), painter Henri Jourdain ( 1864 -- 1931 ), painter, prints or lithographs of landscapes usually by the water Albert Aurier ( 1865 -- 1892 ), poet, art critic and painter devoted to Symbolism Suzanne Valadon ( 1865 -- 1938 ), painter Félix Vallotton ( 1865 -- 1925 ) ( Swiss, worked in France ), painter, engraver Jacqueline Marval ( 1866 - 1932 ), the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet, French painter Pierre Bonnard ( 1867 -- 1947 ), painter Ker - Xavier Roussel ( 1867 -- 1944 ), painter Hector Guimard ( 1867 -- 1942 ), architect and decorator Édouard Vuillard ( 1868 -- 1940 ), painter Georges Lacombe ( 1868 -- 1916 ), sculptor Émile Bernard ( 1868 -- 1941 ), painter Henri Matisse ( 1869 -- 1954 ), painter, other media Adolf de Meyer ( 1869 -- 1949 ), photographer Georges d'Espagnat ( 1870 -- 1950 ), painter, illustrator, engraver Twentieth century ( pre-World War II ) See also Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Modernism, Cubism, Puteaux Group, Dada, Surrealism Georges Rouault ( 1871 -- 1958 ), painter Léon Printemps ( 1871 -- 1945 ), painter František Kupka ( 1871 -- 1957 ) ( Czech, worked in France ), painter Henri - Charles Manguin ( 1874 -- 1943 ), painter Albert Marquet ( 1875 -- 1947 ), painter Jacques Villon ( 1875 -- 1963 ), painter Constantin Brâncuși ( 1876 -- 1957 ) ( French, born in Romania ), sculptor Maurice de Vlaminck ( 1876 -- 1958 ) ( Flemish, worked in France ), painter Raymond Duchamp - Villon ( 1876 -- 1918 ), sculptor Raoul Dufy ( 1877 -- 1953 ), painter Jean Crotti ( 1878 -- 1958 ) ( Swiss ), painter Louis Marcoussis ( Louis Markus ) ( 1878 -- 1941 or 1883 -- 1941 ) ( Polish, worked in France ), painter Francis Picabia ( 1879 -- 1953 ), painter André Derain ( 1880 -- 1954 ), painter Joseph Hémard ( 1880 -- 1961 ), illustrator Albert Gleizes ( 1881 -- 1952 ), painter, writer, theorist Henri Le Fauconnier ( 1881 -- 1946 ), painter Fernand Léger ( 1881 -- 1955 ), painter Georges Braque ( 1882 -- 1963 ), painter Auguste Chabaud ( 1882 -- 1955 ), painter Auguste Herbin ( 1882 -- 1960 ), painter Jean Metzinger ( 1883 -- 1956 ), painter, engraver, poet, writer, theorist Marie Laurencin ( 1883 -- 1956 ), painter Maurice Utrillo ( 1883 -- 1955 ), painter Georges Ribemont - Dessaignes ( 1884 -- 1974 ), painter Jacques Maroger ( 1884 -- 1962 ), painter Robert Delaunay ( 1885 -- 1941 ), painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac ( 1884 -- 1974 ), painter Raymond Wintz ( 1884 -- 1956 ), painter Pierre Brissaud ( 1885 -- 1964 ), painter Roger de La Fresnaye ( 1885 -- 1925 ), painter Robert Antoine Pinchon ( 1886 -- 1943 ), French Post-Impressionist painter of the Rouen School ( l'École de Rouen ) Amédée Ozenfant ( 1886 -- 1956 ), painter Jean ( Hans ) Arp ( 1886 -- 1966 ), painter, sculptor Marc Chagall ( 1887 -- 1985 ) ( born in Belarus ), painter Marcel Duchamp ( 1887 -- 1968 ), painter, sculptor, other media Suzanne Duchamp - Crotti ( 1889 -- 1963 ), painter Ossip Zadkine ( 1890 -- 1967 ) ( Russian born ), sculptor Jacques Lipchitz ( 1891 -- 1973 ) ( born in Lithuania ), sculptor Max Ernst ( 1891 -- 1976 ) ( German born ), painter, sculptor Louis Favre ( 1892 - 1956 ), painter, creator of lithographs Bram van Velde ( 1892 -- 1981 ) ( Dutch, worked in France ), painter Chaïm Soutine ( 1894 -- 1943 ) ( born in Belarus ), painter Jacques Henri Lartigue ( 1894 -- 1986 ), photographer Jean Maurice Rothschild ( 1902 -- 1998 ), furniture artist, interior designer, muralist Gen Paul ( 1895 -- 1975 ), painter, engraver Albert Gilles ( 1895 -- 1979 ), metal embosser, working with copper André Masson ( 1896 -- 1987 ), painter René Iché ( 1897 -- 1954 ), sculptor, painter Jean Fautrier ( 1898 -- 1964 ), painter Georges Gimel ( 1898 -- 1962 ), painter, engraver, sculptor Henri Michaux ( 1899 -- 1984 ) ( Belgian ), painter Brassaï ( Gyula Halasz ) ( 1899 -- 1984 ) ( born in Hungary ), photographer Twentieth century ( post-World War II ) See also Modern art René Pellos ( 1900 -- 1998 ), cartoonist Yves Tanguy ( 1900 -- 1955 ) ( naturalized American ), painter Marcelle Bergerol ( 1900 -- 1989 ), painter Madeleine Schlumberger or Marie d'Ailleurs ' ( 1900 -- 1980 ), artist, writer Alberto Giacometti ( 1901 -- 1966 ) ( Swiss, worked in Paris ), sculptor, painter Alfred - Georges Regner ( 1901 -- 1987 ), painter, engraver Jean Dubuffet ( 1901 -- 1985 ), painter Charles Cobelle ( 1902 - 1994 ), painter Hans Bellmer ( 1902 -- 1975 ) ( French, born in Germany ), sculptor, photographer, engraver Victor Brauner ( 1903 -- 1966 ) ( Romanian ), painter Hans Hartung ( 1904 -- 1992 ) ( born in Germany ), painter Jean Hélion ( 1904 -- 1987 ), painter Pierre Tal - Coat ( 1905 -- 1985 ), painter Elisa Breton ( 1906 -- 2000 ), artist and writer, third wife of French writer and surrealist André Breton Henri Cadiou ( 1906 -- 1989 ), painter Victor Vasarely ( 1908 -- 1997 ) ( born in Hungary ), painter Balthus ( Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, called `` Balthus '' ) ( 1908 -- 2001 ) ( Polish born ), painter Lucien Hervé ( László Elkán ) ( 1910 -- 2007 ) ( born in Hungary ), photographer Othello Radou ( 1910 -- 2006 ), painter Louise Bourgeois ( 1911 -- 2010 ) ( lived and died in America ), sculptor, other media Ervin Marton ( 1912 -- 1968 ), photographer and artist Wols ( 1913 -- 1951 ) ( born in Germany ), painter Pierre Wemaëre ( 1913 -- 2010 ), artist Etienne Martin ( 1913 -- 1995 ), sculptor Nicolas de Staël ( 1914 -- 1955 ) ( French, Russian origin ), painter Gerard Locardi ( 1915 -- 1998 ), painter Jean - Yves Couliou ( 1916 -- 1995 ), painter François Lanzi ( 1916 -- 1988 ), painter Constantine Andreou ( 1917 -- 2007 ) ( Greek, Brazilian born ), painter, sculptor Marcel Mouly ( 1918 -- 2008 ), painter, print maker Bernard Cathelin ( 1919 -- 2004 ), painter Maurice Boitel ( 1919 -- 2007 ), painter Pierre Soulages ( 1919 -- ), painter Gabrielle Bellocq ( 1920 -- 1999 ), painter César Baldaccini ( called `` César '' ) ( 1921 -- 1998 ), sculptor Claude Bonin - Pissarro ( 1921 -- ), painter Georges Mathieu ( 1921 -- ), painter Francois Fiedler ( 1921 -- 2001 ), painter Simon Hantaï ( 1922 -- ) ( born in Hungary ), painter Michel de Sereville ( 1922 -- 2006 ), painter, illustrator François Ozenda ( 1923 -- 1976 ), painter Jean Tinguely ( 1925 -- 1991 ) ( Swiss ), sculptor Robert Filliou ( 1926 -- 1987 ), other media Raymond Hains ( 1926 -- 2005 ), other media Paul Rebeyrolle ( 1926 -- 2005 ), painter François Morellet ( 1926 -- ), painter Jacques de la Villeglé ( 1926 -- ), other media ( ripped posters ) Georges Badin ( 1927 -- ), painter Bernard Buffet ( 1928 -- 1999 ), painter Yves Klein ( 1928 -- 1962 ), painter Jacques Rivette ( 1928 -- ), filmmaker Arman ( Armand Fernandez ) ( 1928 -- 2005 ), sculptor Gérard Gasiorowski ( 1930 -- 1986 ), painter, other media Niki de Saint - Phalle ( 1930 -- 2002 ), sculptor Gérard Laplau ( d. 2009 ), folk artist Alvaro Guillot ( 1931 -- 2010 ) ( Uruguay / French, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico ), abstract realism Jules Michel ( 1931 -- ), painter, sculptor Jean - Marie Straub ( 1933 -- ) and Danièle Huillet ( 1936 -- 2006 ), filmmakers Lydia Corbett ( 1934 -- ), artist Jean - Pierre Yvaral ( 1934 -- 2002 ) ( son of Victor Vasarely ), painter Jean - Michel Sanejouand ( 1934 -- ), sculptor, painter Ben Vautier ( called `` Ben '' ) ( 1935 - ), painter, other media Martial Raysse ( 1936 -- ), painter Daniel Buren ( 1938 -- ), sculptor, painter Pierre Laffillé ( 1938 -- ), painter Henri Sert ( 1938 -- 1964 ), painter Gérard Fromanger ( 1939 -- ), painter, other media Andrey Lekarski ( 1940 -- ), painter, sculptor, media artist ( Bulgarian born ) Bernar Venet ( 1941 -- ) ( lives in America ), sculptor Daniel Dezeuze ( 1942 -- ), other media Anne Poirier ( 1942 -- ), painter, other media Ksenia Milicevic ( 1942 - ), painter Jean Jacques Surian ( 1942 -- ), painter and ceramist, lives in Marseilles Patrick Bokanowski ( 1943 -- ), filmmaker Pierre Risch ( 1943 -- ), painter, lithograph, engraver, designer, pastellist, watercolorist René - Louis Baron ( 1944 -- ), conceptualist, algorithmic music composer Christian Boltanski ( 1944 -- ), painter, photographer, other media, sculptor Jacques Pellegrin ( 1944 -- ), painter Henri Richelet ( 1944 -- ), painter Jean - Yves Lechevallier ( 1946 - ), sculptor Gérard Garouste ( 1946 -- ), sculptor, painter, other media Denis Schneider ( 1946 -- ), painter Orlan ( 1947 -- ), performance artist, body artist Bracha L. Ettinger ( 1948 -- ) ( born in Tel Aviv ), painter, photographer, new media, artists ' books Guillerm Zamor ( 1951 -- ), painter, sculptor, writer Dominique Sanson ( 1949 -- ) ( French, lives and works in Ibiza, Spain ), painter Thibaut de Reimpré ( 1949 -- ), abstract painter Claude - Max Lochu ( 1951 -- ), painter Pierre Toutain - Dorbec ( 1951 -- ), painter, sculptor, photographer, writer Jean - Marc Bustamante ( 1952 -- ), painter, sculptor, photographer Vanilla Beer ( 1953 -- ), painter, daughter of Anthony Stafford Beer Thierry Bisch ( 1953 -- ), painter Bernard Frize ( 1954 -- ), painter Michel Mimran ( 1954 -- ) Jean Paul Leon ( 1955 -- ), painter, sculptor, writer Joel Ducorroy ( 1955 -- ), licence plate artist Patrick Moya ( 1955 -- ), painter, sculptor, media artist ( see fr : Patrick Moya ) Patrick Mimran ( 1956 -- ), multimedia artist Michel De Caso ( 1956 -- ), painter, sculptor Robert Combas ( 1957 -- ), painter Maurice Benayoun ( aka MoBen ) ( 1957 -- ), media artist Emmanuel Flipo ( 1958 - ), painter Hervé Di Rosa ( 1959 -- ), painter Zaven Paré ( 1961 -- ), new media artist Victor Orly ( 1962 -- ) ( lives and works in Marseilles ), painter, ceramist Pierre Huyghe ( 1962 -- ), media, film, video Bibi ( 1964 -- ), installation artist Damien Valero ( 1965 -- ), mixed media artist Manu Farrarons ( 1967 -- ), tattoo artist, graphic designer, illustrator, other media Béatrice Cussol ( 1970 -- ), watercolor, drawing, mural Elsa Dax ( 1972 -- ), painter Jean - François Batellier ( 1974 -- ), caricaturist and cartoonist Amelie Chabannes ( 1974 -- ), painter, sculptor Abdelkader Benchamma ( 1975 -- ), drawings, sculptor Y Liver ( 1977 -- ) ( lives and works in Paris ), video maker and performance artists Elena Mirolioubova ( 1980 - ), lives and works in Paris Natalie d'Arbeloff, cartoonist and painter Hom Nguyen, drawer, painter French photographers See also : List of photographers and Category : French photographers Eugène Atget ( Jean - Eugène Auguste Atget ) ( 1857 -- 1927 ) Brassaï ( Gyula Halasz ) ( 1899 -- 1984 ) ( born in Hungary ) Hippolyte Bayard ( 1807 -- 1887 ) Adeline Boutain ( 1862 -- 1946 ), photographer, postcard publisher Adolphe Braun ( 1812 -- 1877 ) Alexandra Boulat ( 1962 -- 2007 ), photographer Sophie Calle ( 1953 -- ), other media, photographer Henri Cartier - Bresson ( 1908 -- 2004 ) Louis - Jacques Daguerre ( 1787 -- 1851 ) Robert Doisneau ( 1912 -- 1994 ) Pierre Dubreuil ( 1872 -- 1944 ), photographer Philippe Echaroux ( 1983 ) Lucien Hervé ( László Elkán ) ( 1910 -- ), photographer ( born in Hungary ) Jacques Henri Lartigue ( 1894 -- 1986 ) Ange Leccia ( 1952 -- ), photographer, filmmaker Jean - François Lepage ( 1960 -- ), photographer Étienne - Jules Marey ( 1830 -- 1904 ) Charles Marville ( 1816 -- 1879 ) Nadar ( Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called `` Nadar '' ) ( 1820 -- 1910 ) Joseph Nicéphore Niépce ( 1765 -- 1833 ), inventor of photography Pierre et Gilles ( Pierre : 1949, Gilles : 1953 ), photographers ( active since 1976 ) Michel Poivert ( 1965 -- ), photography historian, president of Société française de photographie Herman Puig ( originally from Cuba ), photographer, filmmaker Constant Puyo ( 1857 -- 1933 ) Marc Riboud ( 1923 -- ), photographer Georges Rousse ( 1947 -- ), photographer Bettina Rheims ( 1952 -- ), photographer Willy Ronis ( 1910 -- 2009 ), photographer Lise Sarfati ( 1958 -- ), photographer Jean - Louis Schoellkopf ( 1946 - ), photographer Jean - Baptiste Tournassoud ( 1866 - 1951 ), photographer and military officer Pierre Toutain - Dorbec ( 1951 -- ) Xavier Veilhan ( 1963 -- ), photographer, other media Jean - Marie Villard ( 1828 - 1899 ) Wols ( Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze ) ( 1913 -- 1951 ) ( German, worked in France ), photographer See also Art history European art history History of painting List of French painters References Jump up ^ `` Pierre_Wemaere ''. 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Question: who was the 19th c. artist who was both painter and graphic designer
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