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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.
Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Paris) is the subject of many drawings, sketches and paintings by Vincent van Gogh in 1886 and 1887 after he moved to Montmartre in Paris from the Netherlands. While in Paris, Van Gogh transformed the subjects, color and techniques that he used in creating still life paintings.
Self Portrait, Paris 1887, Van Gogh Museum List of drawings by Vincent van Gogh is an incomplete collection of drawings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) that form an important part of his complete body of work.
Laissez venir à moi les petits enfants - Décoration d'une partie de la chapelle de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul dans l'église Saint-Séverin de Paris sketch - L'étude interrompue - Jeune mère, souvenir d'Italie - Portrait de femme, 1861 Salon, Consolatrix afflictorum (for the church at Bercy) - Portrait de M. A. V... - Portrait de Melle C. V ...
The leading French art fair, Foire internationale d'art contemporain (FIAC), is a manifestation of contemporary art that has taken place every year since 1974 in October in Paris. For several days, this exhibition becomes the international meeting place between galleries, collectors, curators, museum directors and personalities from around the ...
This sketch would later be made into an engraving by Pieter van der Heyden. Death of the Miser Size: 256 x 149 mm. Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris Although originally thought to have been a preparatory drawing for the painting Death and the Miser, it is now believed that the
The "sketchbook" or "manual" of Villard de Honnecourt (more correctly, an album or portfolio) dates to about c.1225-1235. It was discovered in the mid-19th century and is presently housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Paris, under the shelfmark MS Fr 19093.
Detail of Leonardo's "aerial screw" The page of Paris Manuscript B, folio 83v, that depicts Leonardo's aerial screw, held by the Institut de France The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci drew his design for an "aerial screw" in the late 1480s, while he was employed as a military engineer by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499.