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Édouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan (Spouse: Marguerite-Juliette Herpin; Daughter: Marguerite, who married the founder of modern French pediatrics, Robert Debré;...
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Alfred Sisley ( 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained...
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acques-Louis David ( 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the...
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Jacques Tardi (born 1946) is a towering figure in European...
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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...
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Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre (Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by his uncle in Lyon, France) was a Swiss-born French painter who, while a dedicated...
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Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard | Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (Father: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a renowned Rococo painter; Mother: Marie-Anne Gérard, a miniaturist...
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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...
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Paul Victor Jules Signac (Father: Jules Jean-Baptiste Signac; Mother: Héloïse Anaïs Deudon; Spouse: Berthe Roblès; Partner: Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange;...
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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...
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic...
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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 …
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard | Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (Father: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a renowned Rococo painter; Mother: Marie-Anne Gérard, a miniaturist painter) Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (1780–1850) was a highly versatile French painter, sculptor, and designer who successfully bridged the …
Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( 5 April 1732[2][3] – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien …
François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor[1] generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.[2] He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability …
