List of French painters

{{more citations needed|biographical list|date=June 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} This is a '''list of French painters''' sorted alphabetically and by the century in which the painter was most active.

==Alphabetically==

=== A–C=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Pierre Abadie (1896{{ndash}}1972) * Edmond Aman-Jean (1858–1936) * Albert André (1869–1954) * Mathuren Arthur Andrieu (1822–1896) * Gaston Anglade (1854–1919) * Charles Angrand (1854–1926) * Alexandre Antigna (1817–1878) * Joseph Apoux (1846–1910) * Arcabas (1926–2018) * Renée Aspe (1922–1969) * Louise Astoud-Trolley (1817–1883) * Etienne Aubry (1746–1781) * Louis-François Aubry (1770–1850) * Joseph Aved (1702–1766) * Jean Bardin (1732–1809) * Rex Barrat (1914–1974) * Georges Barrière (1881–1944) * Cécile Bart (born 1958) * Jacques Barcat (1877–1955) * Adrien Bas (1884–1925) * Jean-François Batut (1828–1907) * Jean René Bazaine (1904–2001) * Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) * Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu (fl. c. 1770–1815) * Amar Ben Belgacem (1979–2010) * Andrée Belle (1840–1901) * Louis Émile Benassit (1833–1902) * Pierre Berchet (1659–1720) * Marcelle Bergerol (1901–1989) * Antoine Berjon (1754–1843) * André Beronneau (1886–1973) * Louis Béroud (1852–1930) * Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (1823–1887) * Raymond Besse (1899–1969) * Louis Bissinger (1899–1978) * Sophie Blum-Lazarus (1867–1944) * Pierre Bobot (1902–1974) * Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845) * Jean-François Boisard (1762–1820) * Maurice Boitel (1919–2007) * Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) * Leon Bonnat (1833–1922) * Jean de Botton (1898–1978) * François Boucher (1703–1770) * Henri Bouchet-Doumenq (1834–1884) * Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) * William Bouguereau (1825–1905) * Gustave Boulanger (1824–1888) * Charles Boulanger de Boisfremont (1773–1838) * Valentin de Boulogne (1591–1632) * Abel-Dominique Boyé (1864–1934) * Louis Braquaval (1854–1919) * Georges Braque (1882–1963) * Ernest Breton (1812–1875) * Gustave Brion (1824–1877) * Pierre Brissaud (1885–1964) * Pierre-Nicolas Brisset (1810–1890) * François Brochet (1925–2001) * Bernard Buffet (1928–1999) * Étienne Buffet (1866–1948) * Camille-Léopold Cabaillot-Lassalle (1839–1902) * Louis-Nicolas Cabat (1812–1893) * Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) * Philippe Calandre (born 1964) * Robert Campin (1378–1445) * Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824–1887) * Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (1848–1913) * Eugène Carrière (1849–1906) * Clément Castelli (1870–1959) * Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) * Narcisse Chaillou (1835–1916) * Marguerite Émilie Chalgrin (1760–1794) * Charles-Michel-Ange Challe (1718–1778) * Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631–1681) * Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674) * Jérôme-François Chantereau (1710?—?) * Jean Chardin (1643–1713) * Jean Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) * José Charlet (1916–1993) * Fanny Charrin (1781–1854) * Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856) * Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898) * Wang Yan Cheng (born 1960) * Jules Chéret (1839–1932) * Aimée Julie Cheron (1821–c. 1890) * Serge Chubine or Choubine, pseudonym of Sergei Aleksandrovich Zalshupin (1898 or 1900-1931) * Antoine Chintreuil (1816–1873) * Félix Auguste Clément (1826–1888) * Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721–1820) * François Clouet (1515–1572) * Jean Clouet (1480–1541) * Léon Cogniet (1794–1880) * Alphonse Colas (1818–1887) * Émile Colinus (1884–1966) * Nicolas Colombel (1646–1717) * Charles-Fernand de Condamy (1855–1913) * Lydia Corbett (born 1927) * Roger de la Corbière (1893–1974) * Frédéric Samuel Cordey (1854–1911) * Karen Joubert Cordier (born 1954) * Gilles Cormery (1950–1999) * Fernand Cormon (1845–1924) * Éric Corne (1957-) * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) * Pierre Auguste Cot (1837–1883) * Charles Cottet (1863–1925) * Amédée Courbet (1827–1885) * Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) * Jean Cousin the Elder (1500–c. 1593) * Jean Cousin the Younger (c. 1522–1595) * Thomas Couture (1815–1879) * Joseph Crepin (1875–1948) * Louis-Philippe Crépin (1772–1851) * Eugene Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1808–1885) * Théodore Basset de Jolimont (1787–1854) {{div col end}}

=== D–G === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Albert Dagnaux (1861–1933) * Augustine Dallemagne (1821–1875) * Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878) * Fernand Dauchot (1898–1982) * Adrien Dauzats (1804–1868) * Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) * Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803–1860) * Adolphe Déchenaud (1868–1926) * Johan Stephan Decker (1784–1844) * Edgar Degas (1834–1917) * Alfred Dehodencq (1822–1882) * Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) * Édouard Delaporte (1909–1983) * Paul Delaroche (1797–1856) * Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828–1891) * Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) * François-Alfred Delobbe (1835–1920) * Marguerite Delorme (1876–1946) * Maite Delteil (born 1933) * Maurice Denis (1870–1943) * André Derain (1880–1954) * Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays (1729–1765) * Henry d'Estienne (1872–1949) * Édouard Detaille (1848–1912) * Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) * Étienne Dinet (1861–1929) * Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) * Suzanne Duchamp (1889–1963) * Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802) * Georges Dufrénoy (1870–1943) * Marie Duhem (1871–1918) * Henri-Julien Dumont (1859–1921) * Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1725–1802) * François-Léonard Dupont-Watteau (1756–1824) * Jules Dupré (1811–1899) * Jean Dupuy (1925–2021) * Marcel Dyf (1899–1985)<ref name="rehs">{{Cite web |title=Marcel Dyf |url=http://rehs.com/Marcel_Dyf_Bio.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=rehs.com |language=en-US}}</ref> * Pierre Ernou (1685–1739) * Charles Eschard (1748–1810) * Bracha L. Ettinger (born 1948) * Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904) * Auguste Feyen-Perrin (1826–1888) * Clara Filleul (1822–1878) * Hélène Feillet (1812–1889) * Jean Fernand (born 1948) * Charles Filiger (1863–1928) * Rosalie Filleul (1752–1794) * Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809–1864) * Camille Flers (1802–1868) * René Fontayne (1891–1952) * Jean Fouquet (1425–1481) * Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) * Yitzhak Frenkel (1899–1981) * Pierre Édouard Frère (1819–1886) * Charles-Théodore Frère (1814–1886) * Émile Friant (1863–1932) * Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876) * Pierre Gandon (1899–1990) * Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) * François Gérard (1770–1837) * Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) * Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) * Félix-Henri Giacomotti (1828–1909) * René Gillotin (1814–1861) * Georges Gimel (1898–1962) * Charles Léon Godeby (1866–1952) * Alain Godon (born 1964) * Eugène Goyet (1798–1857) * Zoé Goyet (died 1869) * Jean-Baptiste Goyet (1779–1854) * Jean-Pierre Granger (1779–1840) * Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) * Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835) * Gabriel Guay (1848–1923) * Anne Guéret (1760–1805) * François Guiguet (1860–1937) * Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927) * Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) {{div col end}}

=== H–M === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Ahmed Hajeri (born 1948) * Fulchran-Jean Harriet (1778–1805) * T'ang Haywen (1927–1991) * Jeanne-Mathilde Herbelin (1818–1904) * I.J. Berthe Hess (1925–1996) * René Charles Edmond His (1877–1960) * Anne Marguerite Hyde de Neuville (1771–1849) * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) * Étienne Jeaurat (1699–1789) * Jeanne Jégou-Cadart * Henri de Jordan (1944–1996) * Jean Jouvenet (1644–1717) * Victor Koulbak (born 1946) * Georges Lacombe (1868–1916) * Charles Lacoste (1870-1959) * Pierre Laffillé (1938–2011) * Louis Lafitte (1770–1828) * Antonio de La Gándara (1861–1917) * Pierre Lamalattie (born 1956) * Elisa de Lamartine (1790–1863) * Espérance Langlois (1805–1864) * Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777–1837) * Jean-Charles Langlois (1789–1870) * Polyclès Langlois (1813–1872) * Langlois de Sézanne (1757–1845) * François Lanzi (1916–1988) * Edmond-Édouard Lapeyre (1880–1960) * Gaston La Touche (1854–1913) * Alfred Latour (1888–1964) * Georges de La Tour (1593–1652) * Joseph Latour (1806–1863) * Jean-Paul Laurens (1838–1921) * Jules Laurens (1825–1901) * Andrée Lavieille (1887–1960) * Eugène Lavieille (1820–1889) * Marie Adrien Lavieille (1852–1911) * Charles Lebayle (1856–1898) * Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) * Claude Lefebvre (1633–1675) * Fernand Léger (1881–1955) * Amélie Legrand of Saint-Aubin (1797–1878) * Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux (died 1794) * Le Nain brothers (c. 1599–1677) * Louis Le Nain (1593–1648) * Charles-Amable Lenoir (1860–1926) * Jean Paul Leon (born 1955) * Eugène Lepoittevin (1806–1870) * Xavier Leprince (1799–1826) * Alfred Lesbros (1873–1940) * Eustache Lesueur (1617–1655) * Pierre Le Tellier (1614–1702) * Louis Levacher (1934–1983) * Jacques Linard (1597–1645) * Fleury Linossier (born 1902) * Louis-Anselme Longa (1809–1869) * Inès Longevial (born 1990) * Claudine Loquen (born 1965) * Louis Michel van Loo (1707–1771) * Évariste Vital Luminais (1821–1896) * Richard Maguet (1896–1940) * Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) * André Maire (1898–1984) * Jacques Majorelle (1886–1962) * Henri Malançon (1876–1960) * Henri Malançon (1876–1960) * Eugène de Malbos (1811–1858) * Vincent Manago (1880–1936) * Édouard Manet (1832–1883) * Adrien Manglard (1695–1760) * Pierre Marcel-Béronneau (1869–1937) * Prosper Marilhat (1811–1847) * Paul Marny (1829–1914) * Henri Marret (1878–1964) * Olivier Masmonteil (born 1973) * Henri Matisse (1869–1954) * Théo Mercier (born 1984) * Pierre-Charles Le Mettay (1726–1759) * Pierre Émile Metzmacher (1842–1916) * Pierre Mignard (1612–1695) * Ksenia Milicevic (born 1942) * Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) * Maurice Moisset (1860–1946) * Benoît-Hermogaste Molin (1810–1894) * Alphonse Monchablon (1835–1907) * Jan Monchablon (1854–1904) * Claude Monet (1840–1926) * Jules Monge (1855–1934) * François-André Vincent (1746–1816) * Nicolas-André Monsiau (1754–1837) * Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) * Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) * Zareh Moskofian (1898–1987) * Henri-Paul Motte (1846–1922) {{div col end}}

=== N–R=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * {{Interlanguage link|Nasty (graffiti)|fr|Nasty (graffeur)}} (born 1975) * Louis Nattero (1870–1915) * Louis Nattero (1870–1915) * Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852–1941) * Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1836–1885) * Virgilije Nevjestić (1935–2009) * Joseph de La Nézière (1873–1944) * Jean Nicolle (1610–c. 1650) * Boris O'Klein (1893–1985) * Jean-Baptiste Olive (1848–1936) * Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755) * Milena Palakarkina (born 1959) * Gen Paul (1895–1975) * Fernand Pelez (1843–1913) * Jacques Pellegrin (1944–2021) * Albert Joseph Pénot (1862–1930) * Edmond Marie Petitjean (1844–1925) * Hippolyte Petitjean (1854–1929) * Alexis Peyrotte (1699–1769) * Francis Picabia (1879–1953) * Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) * François-Édouard Picot (1786–1868) * Henri-Pierre Picou (1824–1895) * Patrick Pietropoli (born 1953)<ref>Jean-Pierre Delarge, Dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains, Editions GRUND, 2001 and updates, {{ISBN|2-7000-3055-9}}</ref> * Henri Pinta (1856–1944) * Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) * Claude Plessier (born 1946) * Nicolas de Poilly the Younger (1675–1747) * Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) * Auguste Prévot-Valéri (1857–1930) * André Prévot-Valéri (1890–1959) * Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898) * Jean Puy (1876–1960) * Denis Prieur (born 1957) * Léon Printemps (1871–1945) * Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788) * Yehiel Rabinowitz (born 1939) * Alexandre Rachmiel (1835–1918) * Odilon Redon (1840–1916) * Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829) * Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) * Charles-Caïus Renoux (1795–1846) * Eustache Restout (1655–1743) * Jacques Restout (1650–1701) * Marc Restout (1616–1684) * Thomas Restout (1671–1754) * Philippe Richard (born 1962) * Raymond Rochette (1906–1993) * Jeff Roland (born 1969) * Bernard Rosenblum (1927–2007) * Édouard Rosset-Granger (1853–1934) * Georges Rouault (1871–1958) * Jean Rouppert (1887–1979) * Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) * Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) * Monique de Roux (born 1946) * Ferdinand Roybet (1840–1920) * Henri Royer (1869–1938) {{div col end}}

===S–Z=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Fernande Sadler (1869–1949) * Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) * Lucienne de Saint-Mart (1866–1953) * Nicola Rosini Di Santi (born 1959) * Maurice Savin (1894–1973) * Jean-Jacques Scherrer (1855–1916) * Franz Schrader (1844–1924) * Théophile Schuler (1821–1878) * René Schützenberger (1860–1916) * Hippolyte Sebron (1801–1879) * Jean Seignemartin (1848–1875) * Jean Pierre Serrier (1934–1989) * Henri Sert (1938–1964) * Georges Seurat (1859–1891) * Ibrahim Shahda (1929–1991) * Paul Sibra (1889–1951) * Sotiris René Sidiropoulos (born 1977) * Paul Signac (1863–1935) * Pierre Soulages (1919–2022) * Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955) * Jacques Stella (1596–1657) * Michel Suret-Canale (born 1957) * Alfred Swieykowski (1869–1953) * Tancrède Synave (1870–1936) * Octave Tassaert (1800–1874) * Louis Tauzin (1842–1915) * Georges William Thornley (1857–1935) * James Tissot (1836–1902) * François Topino-Lebrun (1764–1801) * Victor Tortez (1843–1890) * Édouard Toudouze (1848–1907) * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) * Anthelme Trimolet (1798–1866) * Constant Troyon (1810–1865) * Marie-Renée Ucciani (1883–1963) * Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955) * Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) * Pierre Adolphe Valette (1876–1942) * Aimé Venel (born 1950) * Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (1875–1928) * Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789) * Horace Vernet (1789–1863) * Bernard Vidal (born 1944) * Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842) * Victor Vignon (1847–1909) * Jean Vigoureux (1907–1986) * Jean-Marie Villard (1828–1899) * Marie-Denise Villers (1774–1821) * Jacques Villon (1875–1963) * Henri Vincent-Anglade (1876–1956) * André-Léon Vivrel (1886–1976) * Lucien Vogt (1891–1968) * Simon Vouet (1590–1649) * Arnaud Courlet de Vregille (born 1958) * Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) * Joseph Wamps (1689–1744) * Louise Ward (1849–1930) * Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) * François Willi Wendt (1909–1970) * Georges Yatridès (1931–2019) * Sergei Aleksandrovich Zalshupin (1898 or 1900-1931) * Félix Ziem (1821–1911) * Achille Zo (1826–1901) {{div col end}}

== By century ==

=== 15th century === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Robert Campin (1378–1445) * Jean Fouquet (1425–1481) {{div col end}}

=== 16th century === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Jean Clouet (1480–1541) * Corneille de Lyon (1500–1575) * Jean Cousin the Elder (1500–c. 1593) * François Clouet (1515–1572) * Jean Cousin the Younger (c. 1522–1595) {{div col end}}

=== 17th century === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Simon Vouet (1590–1649) * Louis Le Nain (1593–1648) * Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) * Jacques Stella (1596–1657) * Jacques Linard (1597–1645) * Sebastian Stoskopff (1597–1657) * Le Nain brothers (c. 1599–1677) * Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674) * Jean Nicolle (1610–c. 1650) * Pierre Mignard (1612–1695) * Daniel Hallé (1614–1675) * Pierre Le Tellier (1614–1702) * Marc Restout (1616–1684) * Eustache Lesueur (1617–1655) * Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) * Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631–1681) * Jean Chardin (1643–1713) * Jean Jouvenet (1644–1717) * François de Troy (1645–1730) * Nicolas Colombel (1646–1717) * Jacques Restout (1650–1701) * Claude Guy Hallé (1652–1736) * Eustache Restout (1655–1743) * Louis de Boullogne (1657–1733) * Pierre Berchet (1659–1720)

=== 18th century === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Nicolas Bertin (1667–1736) * Thomas Restout (1671–1754) * Nicolas de Poilly the Younger (1675–1747) * Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) * Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755) * Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743) * Jean Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) * Étienne Jeaurat (1699–1789) * Joseph Aved (1702–1766) * François Boucher (1703–1770) * Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788) * Louis Michel van Loo (1707–1771) * Jérôme-François Chantereau (1710?–?) * Noël Hallé (1711–1781) * Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721–1820) * Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1725–1802) * Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) * Michel-Bruno Bellengé (1726–1793) * Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays (1729–1765) * Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) * Jean Bardin (1732–1809) * Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802) * Marie-Geneviève Navarre (1737–1795) * Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) * Charles Eschard (1748–1810) * Rosalie Filleul (1752–1794) * Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829) * Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842) * François-Léonard Dupont-Watteau (1756–1824) * Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845) * Sophie Prieur (active late 18th century) {{div col end}}

=== 19th century === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Zoé Goyet (died 1869) * Jean-Baptiste Goyet (1779–1854) * Jean-François Boisard (1762–1820) * Thomas Henry (1766–1836) * Marie-Denise Villers (1774–1821) * Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) * Johan Stephan Decker (1784–1844) * Stéphanie de Virieu (1785–1873) * Charles-Caïus Renoux (1795–1846) * Xavier Leprince (1799–1826)) * Clara Filleul (1822–1878) * Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) * Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (1793–1870) * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) * Amélie Legrand of Saint-Aubin (1797–1878) * Eugène Goyet (1798–1857) * Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) * Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803–1860) * Eugène Lepoittevin (1806–1870) * Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) * Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809–1864) * Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) * Ernest Breton (1812–1875) * Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) * Antoine Chintreuil (1816–1873) * Louise Astoud-Trolley (1817–1883) * Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878) * Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856) * Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) * Eugène Lavieille (1820–1889) * Alfred Dehodencq (1822–1882) * Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) * Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (1823–1887) * Gustave Boulanger (1824–1888) * Henri-Pierre Picou (1824–1895) * Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) * Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898) * William Bouguereau (1825–1905) * Achille Zo (1826–1901) * Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) * Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828–1891) * Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) * Édouard Manet (1832–1883) * Leon Bonnat (1833–1922) * Louis Émile Benassit (1833–1902) * Edgar Degas (1834–1917) * Jean-Paul Laurens (1838–1921) * Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) * Claude Monet (1840–1926) * Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) * Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) * Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) * Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927) * Victor Tortez (1843–1890) * Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) * Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) * Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) * Gabriel Guay (1848–1923) * Louise Ward (1849–1930) * Gaston Anglade (1854–1919) * Charles Angrand (1854–1926) * Frédéric Samuel Cordey (1854–1911) * Hippolyte Petitjean (1854–1929) * Jules Monge (1855–1934) * Henri Pinta (1856–1944) * Auguste Prévot-Valéri (1857–1830) * Georges Seurat (1859–1891) * Charles-Amable Lenoir (1860–1926) * James Tissot (1836–1902) {{div col end}}

=== 20th century === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Pierre Abadie (1896{{ndash}}1972) * Jean-François Batut (1828–1907) * Paul Marny (1829–1914) * Alexandre Rachmiel (1835–1918) * Narcisse Chaillou (1835–1916) * Andrée Belle (1840–1901) * Louis Tauzin (1842–1915) * Franz Schrader (1844–1924) * Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852–1941) * Charles-Fernand de Condamy (1855–1913) * Jules Monge (1855–1934) * Henri-Julien Dumont (1859–1921) * Maurice Moisset (1860–1946) * Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) * Albert Joseph Pénot (1862–1930) * Paul Signac (1863–1935) * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) * Charles Léon Godeby (1866–1952) * Sophie Blum-Lazarus (1867–1944) * André Devambez (1867–1944) * Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) * Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) * Alfred Swieykowski (1869–1953) * Henri Matisse (1869–1954) * Henri Royer (1869–1938) * Clément Castelli (1870–1959) * Georges Dufrénoy (1870–1943) * Maurice Denis (1870–1943) * Tancrède Synave (1870–1936) * Georges Rouault (1871–1958) * Léon Printemps (1871–1945) * Henry d'Estienne (1872–1949) * Alfred Lesbros (1873–1940) * Joseph de La Nézière (1873–1944) * Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (1875–1928) * Joseph Crepin (1875–1948) * Henri Malançon (1876–1960) * Henri Vincent-Anglade (1876–1956) * Marguerite Delorme (1876–1946) * Jean Puy (1876–1960) * René Charles Edmond His (1877–1960) * Henri Marret (1878–1964) * Edmond-Édouard Lapeyre (1880–1960) * Vincent Manago (1880–1936) * Fernand Léger (1881–1955) * Georges Barrière (1881–1944) * Pierre Bodard (1881–1937) * Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) * Georges Braque (1882–1963) * Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955) * Émile Colinus (1884–1966) * André Beronneau (1886–1973) * André-Léon Vivrel (1886–1976) * Jacques Majorelle (1886–1962) * Jean Rouppert (1887–1979) * Alfred Latour (1888–1964) * Paul Sibra (1889–1951) * André Prévot-Valéri (1890–1959) * Lucien Vogt (1891–1968) * René Fontayne (1891–1952) * Boris O'Klein (1893–1985) * Roger de la Corbière (1893–1974) * Maurice Savin (1894–1973) * Jean de Botton (1898–1978) * André Maire (1898–1984) * Fernand Dauchot (1898–1982) * Zareh Moskofian (1898–1987) * Sergei Aleksandrovich Zalshupin aka Serge Chubine or Choubine (1898 or 1900-1931) * Jean Cocteau (1899–1963) * Louis Bissinger (1899–1978) * Raymond Besse (1899–1969) * Yitzhak Frenkel (1899–1981) * Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) * Marcelle Bergerol (1901–1989) * Pierre Bobot (1902–1974) * Jean Bazaine (1904–2001) * Henri Cadiou (1906–1989) * Raymond Rochette (1906–1993) * Camille Bryen (1907–1977) * Jean Vigoureux (1907–1986) * Édouard Delaporte (1909–1983) * François Willi Wendt (1909–1970) * Rex Barrat (1914–1974) * Gérard Locardi (1915–1998) * José Charlet (1916–1993) * Andrée Le Coultre (1917–1986) * Maurice Boitel (1919–2007) * Renée Aspe (1922–1969) * François Brochet (1925–2001) * I.J. Berthe Hess (1925–1996) * Arcabas (1926–2018) * Bernard Rosenblum (1927–2007) * T'ang Haywen (1927–1991) * Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) * Georges Yatridès (1931–2019) * Jean Pierre Serrier (1934–1989) * Virgilije Nevjestić (1935–2009) * Henri Sert (1938–1964) * Yehiel Rabinowitz (born 1939) * Ksenia Milicevic (born 1942) * Bernard Vidal (1944–2019) * Henri de Jordan (1944–1996) * Jacques Pellegrin (painter) (born 1944) * Claude Plessier (born 1946) * Monique de Roux (born 1946) * Victor Koulbak (born 1946) * Ahmed Hajeri (born 1948) * Bracha L. Ettinger (born 1948) * Aimé Venel (born 1950) * Karen Joubert Cordier (born 1954) * Jean Paul Leon (born 1955)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Leon|first1=Jean Paul|title=Heritage|date=2007|publisher=MinEdition|isbn=978-2354130008}}</ref> * Pierre Lamalattie (born 1956) * Denis Prieur (born 1957) * Michel Suret-Canale (born 1957) * Arnaud Courlet de Vregille (born 1958) * Nicola Rosini Di Santi (born 1959) * Wang Yan Cheng (born 1960) * Jean Fernand (born 1948) * Philippe Richard (born 1962) * Philippe Calandre (born 1964) * Jeff Roland (born 1969) * Olivier Masmonteil (born 1973) * Sotiris René Sidiropoulos (born 1977) * Amar Ben Belgacem (1979–2010) * Théo Mercier (born 1984) * Seb Toussaint (born 1988)

== See also == {{commons category}} {{Portal|Biography|France|Lists|Visual arts}} * :Category:French painters * List of French artists – including all visual and plastic arts * List of French engravers

==References== {{Reflist}}

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