# 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 (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

* 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 – c. 1515), sculptor
* Nicolas Froment (c. 1450 – c. 1490), painter
* Jean Perréal (c. 1455 – c. 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
* 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 (c. 1510 – c. 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
* 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 of France, Cardinal Richelieu, Baroque, Louis XIV of France, 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 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
* 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 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
* Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet (1815–1886), lithographer
* 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
* Camille Chantereine (1810–1847), painter
* Achille Devéria (1800–1857), painter, engraver
* Charles Philipon (1800–1861), caricaturist
* 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
* 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
* 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
* Camille Alfred Pabst (1828–1898), painter
* Achille Emperaire (1829–1898), painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne
* Léon Germain Pelouse (1838–1891), painter
* Lucien Joulin (1842–1878), painter
* Gaston de Laperriere (1848–1920), painter
* Gabriel Guay (1848–1923), painter
* Aimé Morot (1850–1915), painter and son in law of Jean-Léon Gérôme
* Gabriel-Charles Deneux [fr] (b. 1856), encaustic painter
* Jules-Cyrille Cavé (4 January 1859 – 12 May 1949), painter

## 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
* Louis Émile Benassit (1833–1902) artist and raconteur
* 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
* Emilie Jenny Weyl (1855–1934), sculptor
* Édouard Bisson (1856–1939), painter
* Henry-Edmond Cross (1856–1910), painter
* Henry Moret (1856–1913), painter
* Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927), photographer
* Mathurin Janssaud (1857–1940), painter
* Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), painter and sculptor
* 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
* Camille Bouvagne (1864–1936), 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
* Angèle Delasalle (1867–1941, painter, engraver
* Paule Gobillard (1867–1946), painter
* Jeanne Itasse-Broquet (1867–1941), sculptor
* 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
* Maurice Dubois (1869–1944), painter
* 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
* Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (1875–1928), 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
* Jeanne Baudot (1877–1957), painter
* René Charles Edmond His, (1877–1960), landscape 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
* Jean-Georges Cornélius (1880-1963), painter
* Maurice Berty (1884–1946), illustrator
* André Derain (1880–1954), painter
* Joseph Hémard (1880–1961), illustrator
* René Béclu (1881—1915), sculptor
* Charles Picart Le Doux (1881—1959), painter
* Albert Gleizes (1881–1952), painter, writer, theorist
* Henri Le Fauconnier (1881–1946), painter
* Jacob Macznik (1905–1945), 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
* Marie-Renée Ucciani (1883–1963), painter, sculptor
* 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
* Anna Quinquaud (1890–1984), explorer and sculptor
* Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967) (Russian born), sculptor
* Sabine Desvallières (1891–1935), French embroiderer and nun
* Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) (born in Lithuania), sculptor
* Max Ernst (1891–1976) (German born), painter, sculptor
* Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron (1891–1949), painter
* 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
* Lucie Bouniol (1896–1988), sculptor, painter
* 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
* Yves Tanguy (1900–1955) (naturalized American), painter

## Twentieth century (post-World War II)

* René Pellos (1900–1998), cartoonist
* Madeleine Schlumberger or Marie d’Ailleurs’ (1900–1980), artist, writer
* Marcelle Bergerol (1901–1989), painter
* Michel-Marie Poulain1906–1991), painter
* 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
* Maurice Blanchard (1903–1969), painter
* 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
* Mario Tauzin (1909–1979)
* Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq (1910–1973), illustrator
* Jacques Nathan Garamond (1910–2001), graphic designer, illustrator, 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), painter
* Etienne Martin (1913–1995), sculptor
* Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955) (French, Russian origin), painter
* Gérard Locardi (1915–1998), 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 (1919–2022), painter
* Gabrielle Bellocq (1920–1999), painter
* César Baldaccini (called "César") (1921–1998), sculptor
* Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921–2021), painter
* Georges Mathieu (1921–2012), painter
* Francois Fiedler (1921–2001), painter
* Simon Hantaï (1922–2018) (born in Hungary), painter
* Paul Crotto (1922–2016), painter, sculptor and printmaker
* 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 (1926–2016), painter
* Jacques de la Villeglé (1926–2022), other media (ripped posters)
* François Dilasser (1926–2012), painter
* Georges Badin (1927–2014), painter
* Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), painter
* Yves Klein (1928–1962), painter
* Jacques Rivette (1928–2016), filmmaker
* Arman (Armand Fernandez) (1928–2005), sculptor
* Natalie d'Arbeloff (1929–), cartoonist and painter
* Gérard Gasiorowski (1930–1986), painter, other media
* Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930–2002), sculptor
* Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) (Uruguay/French, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico), abstract realism
* Jules Michel (1931–), painter, sculptor
* Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019), artist, illustrator
* Bernard Rancillac (1931–2021), painter, sculptor
* Jean-Marie Straub (1933–2022) and Danièle Huillet (1936–2006), filmmakers
* Lydia Corbett (1934–), artist
* Jean Pierre Serrier (1934–1989), painter
* Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1934–2002) (son of Victor Vasarely), painter
* Jean-Michel Sanejouand (1934–2021), sculptor, painter
* Silviane Léger (1935–2012), French sculptor
* Ben Vautier (called "Ben") (1935–), painter, other media
* Martial Raysse (1936–), painter
* Daniel Buren (1938–), sculptor, painter
* Pierre Laffillé (1938–2011), painter
* Henri Sert (1938–1964), painter
* Gérard Fromanger (1939–2021), painter, other media
* Sandra Jayat (c.1939–), painter, poet, author
* Nancy Wilson-Pajic (1941–), media artist, feminist artist, installation artist, photographer
* Bernar Venet (1941–) (lives in America), sculptor
* Daniel Dezeuze (1942–), other media
* Anne Poirier (1942–), painter, other media
* Ksenia Milicevic (1942–), painter
* Tania Mouraud (1942–), contemporary artist
* Jean Jacques Surian (1942–), painter and ceramist, lives in Marseilles
* Patrick Bokanowski (1943–), filmmaker
* Pierre Risch (1943–), painter, lithograph, engraver, designer, pastellist, watercolorist
* Slobodan Pajic (1943–), painter, media artist, installation artist
* René-Louis Baron (1944–2016), conceptualist, algorithmic music composer
* Christian Boltanski (1944–2021), painter, photographer, other media, sculptor
* Reine Mazoyer, (1944–), painter, illustrator, set designer
* Jacques Pellegrin (1944–2021), painter
* Henri Richelet (1944–2020), painter
* Thierry Agullo (1945–1980), mixed media
* Jean-Yves Lechevallier (1946–), sculptor
* Gérard Garouste (1946–), sculptor, painter, other media
* Jean-Marie Poumeyrol (1946–), painter
* Denis Schneider (1946–), painter
* Yves Hayat (1946–), painter
* Orlan (1947–), performance artist, body artist
* Champion Métadier (1947–), visual artist
* Bracha L. Ettinger (1948–) (born in Tel Aviv), painter, photographer, new media, artists' books
* Thibaut de Reimpré (1949–2023), abstract painter
* Claudine Drai (1951–), visual artist
* Claude-Max Lochu (1951–), painter
* Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951–), painter, sculptor, photographer, writer
* Guillerm Zamor (1951–), painter, sculptor, writer
* Jean-Marc Bustamante (1952–), painter, sculptor, photographer
* Hélène Agofroy (1953–), contemporary artist
* 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
* Pascal Lecocq (1958–) painter, set designer
* Emmanuel Flipo (1958–), painter
* Thierry Noir (1958–), artist and muralist
* Hervé Di Rosa (1959–), painter
* Zaven Paré (1961–), new media artist
* Corinne Medina-Saludo [fr] (1961–), painter and drawer
* 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
* Marie Jaffredo (1966–), comics creator
* Manu Farrarons (1967–), tattoo artist, graphic designer, illustrator, other media
* Lionel Estève (1967–), (lives and works in Brussels), sculpture and installation artist
* Phil. Macquet (1967–), painter
* Johanna Schipper (known as "Johanna"; 1967–), bande dessinée artist
* Béatrice Cussol (1970–), watercolor, drawing, mural
* Elsa Dax (1972–), painter
* Béatrice Tillier (1972–), illustrator and bande dessinée cartoonist
* Virginie Augustin (1973–), comics and animated features artist
* Jean-François Batellier (1974–), caricaturist and cartoonist
* Abdelkader Benchamma (1975–), drawings, sculptor
* Morgane Tschiember (1976–), sculptor, video artist
* Y Liver (1977–) (lives and works in Paris), video maker and performance artists
* Aude Massot (1983–), comic book artist
* Oriane Lassus (1987–), cartoonist and illustrator
* Seb Toussaint (1988–), artist and muralist
* Jisbar (1989–), artist and painter
* Youssef Tabti, concept artist

## 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) (1910–2007), 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 (1923–2016), photographer
* Georges Rousse (1947–), photographer
* Bettina Rheims (1952–), photographer
* Willy Ronis (1910–2009), photographer
* Lise Sarfati (1958–), photographer
* Jean-Louis Schoellkopf (1946–), photographer
* Alex Strohl (1989–)
* 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