Middle Ages

• Villard de Honnecourt (1200s) other media
• Jean Pucelle (active 1325-28) other media
• Claus Sluter (Dutch, worked in Burgundy from 1395-1406) sculptor
• the Limbourg brothers (Pol and Hermann) (Flemish artists working in Burgundy around 1403-1416) other media

Renaissance

• Jacques Morel (artist) (c.1395-1459) sculptor
• Simon Marmion (c.1420-1489) Illuminations
• Jean Fouquet (1420-1481) painter, Illuminations
• Nicolas Froment (c.1450 — c.1490) painter
• Pierre Antoine Le Moiturier (active in the 1460s) sculptor
• Jean Clouet (c.1485-1541) (Flemish born) painter, Miniatures
• Jean Duvet (c.1485-c.1570) engraver
• Jehan Cousin the elder (1500-1593) painter, engraver, sculptor
• Ligier Richier (1500-1567) sculptor
• Philibert Delorme (or de L'Orme) (1505/1510-1570) sculptor, Architectural plans
• Pierre Bontemps (1505/1510-after 1562) sculptor
• Jean Goujon (c.1510-1565?) sculptor
• Bernard Palissy (1510-1590) Master potter
• Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (c1510-1585) 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
• Jehan Cousin the younger (c. 1522-1593) painter
• Germain Pilon (c.1535-1590) sculptor
• Ambroise Dubois (c.1542-1614) (Flemish born) painter
• Barthélemy Prieur (c.1536-1616) sculptor
• Toussaint Dubreuil (c.1561-1602) painter
• 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
• Claude Deruet (1588-1660) (in Lorraine) painter

Seventeenth century

• Jean de Beaugrand (1584-1640) lineographer
• Simon Vouet (1590-1649) painter
• Jacques Callot (1592-1635) (in Lorraine) engraver
• Georges de La Tour (1593-1652) painter
• Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) painter
• Antoine Le Nain (before 1600-?) painter
• Louis Le Nain (after 1600-?) painter
• Abraham Bosse (1602-1676) engraver
• Claude Gelée, called Claude Lorraine (1600-1682) painter
• Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674)
• Laurent de La Hyre (1606-1565) painter
• Mathieu Le Nain (1607-c.1677) painter
• Pierre Mignard (1612-1695) 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
• François Girardon (1628-1715) sculptor
• Claude Lefebvre (1633-1675) painter and engraver
• Charles de la Fosse (1636-1716) painter
• Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720) sculptor
• Jean Jouvenet (1644-1717) painter
• François de Troy (1645-1730) painter
• Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746) painter
• Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743) painter
• Antoine Coypel (1661-1722) sculptor
• François Desportes (1661-1743) painter

Eighteenth century

• Alexis Simon Belle (1674-1734)
• Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752) (son of François) painter
• 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
• 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 Etienne 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

8henry mattiisee (1999-19999) painter

• Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783) painter
• Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716-1791) sculptor
• 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-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) painter
• Jean-Jacques Durameau (1733-1796) painter
• Hubert Robert (1733-1808) painter, engraver
• Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1735-1784) painter
• Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre (1739-c1800) painter
• Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) sculptor
• Jean Michel Moreau (Moreau the younger) (1741-1814) engraver
• Jacques Louis David (1748-1825) painter
• Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) painter

Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism)

• Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829)
• Pierre Prudhon (1758-1823) painter
• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) photographer
• 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
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) painter
• François Rude (1784-1855) sculptor
• Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787-1851) photographer
• Horace Vernet (1789-1863) painter
• Jules Robert Auguste (c.1789-1850) painter
• Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) painter
• Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845) painter
• Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875) sculptor
• Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) painter
• Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) painter
• Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) painter
• Hippolyte Bellange (1800-1866) painter
• Achille Devéria (1800-1857) painter, engraver
• Paul Huet (1803-1869) painter
• Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, called) (1803-1847) engraver
• Eugène Isabey (1803-1886) painter
• Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804-1860) painter
• Edouard Vienot (born 1804) painter
• Hippolyte Bayard (1807-1887) photographer
• Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) painter, engraver
• 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
• 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) engraver
• Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) painter
• Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) painter
• Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) 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
• François Salle (1839-1899)
• Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902) painter

Nineteenth century (Impressionism to Fauvism)

• Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) painter
• Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) photographer
• Edouard Manet (1832-1883) painter
• Gustave Doré (1832-1883) engraver
• Edgar Degas (1834-1917) painter, sculptor
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) painter
• Jules Chéret (1836-1932) painter, other media
• Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) painter
• Odilon Redon (1840-1916) painter, engraver and pastels
• Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) sculptor
• Claude Monet (1840-1926) painter
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) painter
• Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) painter
• Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) painter
• Marie Bracquemond (1841-1916) painter
• Henri Rousseau (“Le Douanier Rousseau”) (1844-1910) painter
• Jean Antonin Mercié (1845-1916) sculptor
• Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) painter
• Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) painter
• Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) painter, sculptor
• Henry Lerolle (1848-1929) painter
• Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) (Dutch, worked in France) painter
• Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857-1927) photographer
• Mathurin Janssaud (1857-1940) painter
• 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
• Paul Signac (1863-1935) painter
• Henri Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) painter
• Paul Sérusier (1864-1927) painter
• Paul Ranson (1864-1909) painter
• Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) painter
• Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) (Swiss, worked in France) engraver
• Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) painter
• Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867-1944) painter
• Hector Guimard (1867-1942) Architect and Decorator
• Edouard Jean Vuillard (1868-1940) painter
• Georges Lacombe (1868-1916) sculptor
• Emile Bernard (1868-1941) painter
• Henri Matisse (1869-1954) painter, other media
• Adolf de Meyer (1869-1949) photographer

Twentieth century (Pre World War II)

• Georges Rouault (1871-1958) painter
• Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) (Czech, worked in France) painter
• Henri-Charles Manguin (1874-1943) painter
• Albert Marquet (1875-1947) painter
• Jacques Villon (1875-1963) painter
• Constantin Brancusi (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
• 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
• André Derain (1880-1954) painter
• Joseph Hémard (1880-1961) illustrator
• Albert Gleizes (1881-1952) painter
• Henri Le Fauconnier (1881-1946) painter
• Fernand Léger (1881-1955) painter
• Georges Braque (1882-1963) painter
• Auguste Herbin (1882-1960) painter
• Jean Metzinger (1883-1956) painter, engraver
• Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) painter
• Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955) painter
• Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884-1974) painter
• Jacques Maroger (1884-1962) painter
• Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) painter
• André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884-1974) painter
• Pierre Brissaud (1885-1964) painter
• Roger de la Fresnaye (1885-1925) painter
• 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
• Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967) (Russian born) sculptor
• Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) (Born in Poland) sculptor
• Max Ernst (1891-1976) painter, sculptor
• Bram van Velde (1892-1981) (Dutch, worked in France) painter
• Chaïm Soutine (1894-1943) (Born in Lithuania) painter
• Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) photographer
• Gen Paul (1895-1975) painter, engraver
• Albert Gilles (1895-1979) metal embosser, working with copper
• 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

Twentieth century (Post World War II)

• Alexandre Elmaleh de Buenos (1927 - 2006) (French, Naturalized American) Impressionist Painter
• Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) (Naturalized American) painter
• Alfred Georges Regner (1901-1987) Painter-Engraver
• Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) painter
• Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) (Swiss, worked in Paris) sculptor, painter
• Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) (French, Born in Germany) sculptor, photographer, engraver
• Hans Hartung (1904-1992) (Born in Germany) painter
• Jean Hélion (1904-1987) painter
• Pierre Tal-Coat (1905-1985) painter
• Henri Cadiou (1906-1989) painter
• Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, called "Balthus") (1908-2001) (Polish born) painter
• Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) (Born in Hungary) painter
• Gaston Chaissac (1910-1964) painter, other media
• Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910-2007) photographer (Born in Hungary)
• Louise Bourgeois (1911-) (Lives in America) sculptor, other media
• Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) (French, Russian origin) painter
• Jean-Yves Couliou (1916-1995) painter
• Constantine Andreou (1917 - 2007) (Greek, Brazilian born) painter, sculptor
• Pierre Soulages (1919- ) painter
• Maurice Boitel (1919- ) painter
• César Baldaccini (called "César") (1921-1998) sculptor
• Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921-) painter
• Georges Mathieu (1921- ) painter
• Simon Hantaï (1922-) (Born in Hungary) painter
• Jacques Toutain-Dorbec (1923- ) (French, lives and work in Spain) painter
• François Ozenda (1923–1976) painter
• Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) (Swiss) sculptor
• François Morellet (1926- ) painter
• Jacques de la Villeglé (1926-) other media (ripped posters)
• Raymond Hains (1926-2005) other media
• Robert Filliou (1926-1987) other media
• Georges Badin (1927-) painter
• Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) painter
• Yves Klein (1928-1962) painter
• Arman (Armand Fernandez) (1928-2005) sculptor
• François Jacques Boeri (1929-) painter
• Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930-2002) sculptor
• Jules Michel (1931- ) (French lives in France) painter, sculptor
• Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1934-2002) (son of Victor Vasarely) painter
• Martial Raysse (1936-) painter
• Daniel Buren (1938- ) sculptor, painter
• Pierre Laffillé (1938- ), painter
• Gérard Fromanger (1939-) painter, other media
• Jean Jacques Surian (1942-) (painter and ceramist, lives in Marseille)
• Ben Vautier (called “Ben”) (dates?) painter, other media
• Anne Poirier (1942- ) painter, other media
• Patrick Poirier (1942- ) painter, other media
• Christian Boltanski (1944- ) painter, photographer, other media, sculptor
• Bracha L. Ettinger (1948- ) (Born in Tel Aviv) painter, photographer, new media, artist's books
• Gérard Garouste (1946-) sculptor, painter, other media
• Orlan (1947-) performance artist, body artist
• Dominique Sanson (1949 - ) (French, lives and works in Ibiza, Spain) painter
• Claude-Max Lochu (1951- ) painter
• Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951- ) painter, sculptor, photographer, writer
• Jean-Marc Bustamante (1952-) painter, sculptor, photographer
• Vanilla Beer (1953) painter, daughter of *Anthony Stafford Beer
• Thierry Bisch (1953-) painter
• Bernard Frize (1954-) painter
• Patrick Moya (1955-) painter, sculptor, media artist (see Patrick Moya)
• Alexis Ruyer (Ruyal) (1955-) painter
• Raphael Labro (1956- ) painter, photographer, other media
• Michel De Caso (1956-) painter, sculptor
• Robert Combas (1957-) painter
• Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen) (1957- ) media artist
• Hervé Di Rosa (1959-) painter
• Serge Arto (1959-) painter,sculptor, photographer,media artist
• Elle Nicolai (active since 1997) (lives in America), painter, photographer
• Zaven Paré (1961-) New media artist
• Pierre Huyghe (1962-) media, film, video
• Allison Carmichael (1963) painter
• Jose Da Silveira (created Formism) (1965-) (Lives in America) sculptor, painter, other media, writer, novelist, poet, playwright
• Amelie Chabannes (1974-) painter, sculptor
• Gilles Balmet (1979-) Video artist, painter, photographer and other media
• Michel de Sereville (1922-2006)- painter, illustrator

French photographers

• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) — Inventor of Photography
• Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787-1851)
• Hippolyte Bayard (1807-1887)
• Charles Marville (1816-1879)
• Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820-1910)
• Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)
• Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857-1927)
• Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
• Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899-1984) (born in Hungary)
• Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
• Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910-) photographer (Born in Hungary)
• Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)
• Willy Ronis (1910-)
• Marc Riboud (1923-)
• Georges Rousse (1947-)
• Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951-)
• Vincent Gruyer (1964-)
• Pierre et Gilles (Pierre: 1949, Gilles: 1953) photographers(active since 1976)
• Georges Rousse (1947-) photographer
• Sophie Calle (1953-) other media, photographer
• Bettina Rheims (1952-) photographer
• Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913-1951) (German, worked in France) photographer
• Xavier Veilhan (1963-) photographer, other media
• Dani Jackson (1984-) photographer

See also

• European art history
• Art history
• History of Painting
• List of Spanish artists
• List of Bulgarian artists