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23 March 2026
Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (Parents: Silvio and Iria Uderzo; Brother: Marcel Uderzo, also an artist; Spouse: Ada Milani; Daughter: Sylvie Uderzo)
Albert Uderzo...
08 August 2021
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic...
23 March 2026
John Victor Romita (Spouse: Virginia Romita; Sons: John Romita Jr., also a legendary comic artist, and Victor Romita)
John Romita Sr. (1930–2023) was one...
04 August 2021
Nicolas Poussin (UK: /ˈpuːsæ̃/, US: /puːˈsæ̃/,[1][2] French: [nikɔla pusɛ̃]; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French...
13 August 2021
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard | Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (Father: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a renowned Rococo painter; Mother: Marie-Anne Gérard, a miniaturist...
29 March 2026
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau | Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (Father: Julien Rousseau, a tinsmith; Mother: Eléonore Guyard; Spouses: Clémence Boitard, Joséphine...
31 July 2021
Édouard Manet 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a...
13 August 2021
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely...
03 December 2021
He was born in Versailles and studied in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger.[1] His themes are generally historical,...
08 August 2021
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877)[3] was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century...
08 August 2021
Camille Pissarro ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now...
05 October 2021
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (Father: Théodore Bouguereau; Mother: Marie Bonnin; Spouses: Nelly Monchablon, Elizabeth Jane Gardner)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau...
25 February 2026
Marie-Rosalie Bonheur (Father: Oscar-Raymond Bonheur, a painter; Mother: Sophie Marquis; Siblings: Auguste, Isidore, and Juliette, all artists; Companions:...
10 August 2021
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (Parents: Edmé Tiburce Morisot and Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas; Sister and fellow artist: Edma Morisot; Spouse: Eugène...
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Marc Chagall[a] (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Belarusian-French artist.[2][1] An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book …
Georges Braque 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963 was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. …
Benjamin-Constant was born in Paris. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, where he was a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel. A journey to Morocco in 1872 strongly influenced his early artistic development and lead him to produce Romantic scenes …
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe ləbʁœ̃]; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842),[1] also known as Madame Le Brun, was a French portrait painter in the late 18th century. Her artistic style is generally considered part …
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (UK: /ˈkɒroʊ/ KORR-oh,[1] US: /kəˈroʊ, kɔːˈroʊ/ kə-ROH, kor-OH,[2][3][4] French: [ʒɑ̃ batist kamij kɔʁo]; July 16, 1796[5] – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition …
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French: [leʒe]; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as “tubism“) which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. …
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet.[1] A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism.[1] He …
Gustave Moreau (French: [mɔʁo]; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him “the Symbolist painter par excellence.”[1]: 110 p. He was an influential forerunner of symbolism …
He was born in Versailles and studied in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger.[1] His themes are generally historical, and he treated them on a colossal scale and in an emotional naturalistic style, with a distinct revelling in …
Georges-Pierre Seurat (Father: Antoine Chrysostome Seurat; Mother: Ernestine Faivre) Georges Seurat (1859–1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and a visionary theorist who fundamentally altered the course of modern art. He is best known as …
Paul Victor Jules Signac (Father: Jules Jean-Baptiste Signac; Mother: Héloïse Anaïs Deudon; Spouse: Berthe Roblès; Partner: Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange; Daughter: Ginette) Paul Signac (1863–1935) was a pioneering French painter who, alongside Georges Seurat, fundamentally transformed …
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (Father: Théodore Bouguereau; Mother: Marie Bonnin; Spouses: Nelly Monchablon, Elizabeth Jane Gardner) William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) was perhaps the most influential and successful practitioner of Academic Art during the late 19th century. A …
François Boucher (UK: /ˈbuːʃeɪ/ BOO-shay, US: /buːˈʃeɪ/ boo-SHAY; French: [fʁɑ̃swa buʃe]; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral …
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was “arguably the world’s most famous living artist by 1880.”[1] The …
Jean-Antoine Watteau (UK: /ˈwɒtoʊ/, US: /wɒˈtoʊ/,[2][3] French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan vato]; baptised October 10, 1684 – died July 18, 1721)[4] was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the …