French Painters

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Famous French Painters

• Jean Arp - Art Quotes
  Famous French-German sculptor, painter and poet associated with Dada and abstract art.
• Pierre Bonnard - Art Quotes
  Popular French painter, printmaker, illustrator and Post-Impressionist artist associated with the Les Nabis group.
• William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Art Quotes
  Famous French realist painter known for his depictions of beautiful feminine women.
• Georges Braque - Art Quotes
  Famous French artist who developed Cubism with Pablo Picasso.
• Bernard Buffet - Art Quotes
  French figurative painter known for his landscapes, still lifes, cityscapes and portraits.
• Paul Cezanne - Art Quotes
  Notable French Post-Impressionist painter known for his landscapes, still life, and portrait paintings.
• Gustave Courbet - Art Quotes
  Popular French painter and realist artist who depicted daily life as it is.
• Jacques-Louis David - Art Quotes
  French neoclassical painter of historical events, mythology and portraits.
• Edgar Degas - Art Quotes
  Famous French Impressionist artist known for his skill as a draftsman, his dancers and interiors.
• Eugene Delacroix - Art Quotes
  Notable French painter, printmaker and muralist associated with the Romantic art movement in France.
• Andre Derain - Art Quotes
  Popular French painter and sculptor who was part of the Les Fauves or the Wild Beasts group of artists.
• Jean Dubuffet - Art Quotes
  Famous French artist who promoted the Art Brut movement. Known for his paintings and sculpture.
• Henri Fantin-Latour - Art Quotes
  Famous French realist painter known for his flower paintings and portraits.
• Paul Gauguin - Art Quotes
  Well known French painter and printmaker of the Post-Impressionist art movement.
• Jean-Léon Gérôme - Art Quotes
  Famous French realist painter and sculptor of religious scenes, Greek mythology and Orientalism.
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Art Quotes
  French neoclassical painter and draftsman known for his portraits.
• Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - Art Quotes
  Notable female portrait painter famous for her depictions of society people, including Marie Antoinette.
• Fernand Leger - Art Quotes
  Popular 20th century modernist French painter, sculptor, printmaker and filmmaker.
• Edouard Manet - Art Quotes
  Famous French artist who enabled the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
• Henri Matisse - Art Quotes
  Famous French master painter and sculptor of the 20th century.
• Claude Monet - Art Quotes
  Very famous French painter who founded Impressionism and painted the landscapes of France.
• Berthe Morisot - Art Quotes
  Famous French female impressionist artist known for her portraits and domestic scenes.
• Camille Pissarro - Art Quotes
  Notable French artist involved in the Impressionist art movement.
• Nicolas Poussin - Art Quotes
  Notable French Baroque painter of religious scenes, mythology, and landscapes.
• Pierre Auguste Renoir - Art Quotes
  Influential French impressionist painter famous for his paintings of big feminine women.
• Georges Rouault - Art Quotes
  Famous French painter, watercolorist, draftsman, printmaker and religious artist known for his expressive clowns, prostitutes, religious figures and emotional portraits.
• Georges Seurat - Art Quotes
  Famous French pointillism artist associated with the Post-Impressionist art movement.
• Pierre Soulages - Art Quotes
  Famous French abstract artist nicknamed the Painter of Black.
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Art Quotes
  Famous French Post-Impressionist painter, draftsman and printmaker known for his Moulin Rouge artworks.
• Maurice de Vlaminck - Art Quotes
  Famous French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves or Wild Beasts.
• Edouard Vuillard - Art Quotes
  Notable French painter associated with the Les Nabis group of artists in France.

 

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