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This is a list of French painters sorted alphabetically and by the century in which the painter was most active. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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.
The expression "Rococo" is used for much European art throughout the 18th century, including works by the Italians Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Canaletto and Francesco Guardi and the English Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and the furnituremaker Thomas Chippendale.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century French women painters The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. Contents
The latter half of the 18th century continued to see French preeminence in Europe, particularly through the arts and sciences, and the French language was the lingua franca of the European courts. The French academic system continued to produce artists, but some, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , explored new and ...
Following World War II, Jacques-Louis David was increasingly regarded as a symbol of French national pride and identity, as well as a vital force in the development of European and French art in the modern era. [45] The birth of Romanticism is traditionally credited to the paintings of eighteenth-century French artists such as Jacques-Louis David.
Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. [3] He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet (1800–1871) and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet (1805–1857), both of them second-generation Parisians.
P. The Palette Game; Peasant Family in an Interior; The Picador (watercolour painting) Pierrot (Watteau) Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon; Portrait of a Lady (said to be Anne Stuart, Maréchale d'Aubigny)