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French painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker Henrí Matisse (b. 1869 – d. 1954) was born December 31st of 1869 in Le Cateau- Cambrésis and was raised in Bohain. He was…
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French artist and Impressionist painter Claude Monet (b. 1840—d. 1926) was born in Paris, France. Monet travelled to Le Havre, Normandy at a young age and, during his time there,…
Read More Paul-Élie Ranson began studying art at an early age under the guidance of his grandfather, who helped Paul’s father, a prominent politician, raise him after his mother died in childbirth.…
Read More French painter and lithographer (1827-1887) Leon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier, was born in France in 1827. Sabatier intrigued French audiences with lithographs of exotic far-away lands.
Read More Georges de La Tour was born in 1593 in Vic-sur-Seille, now part of northeastern France. Both his father and grandfather were bakers. No documents or information regarding La Tour’s early…
Read More Séraphine Louis, also called Séraphine de Senlis, was a self-taught French painter. She was inspired by her religion, through stained-glass church windows and other religious art. Her work is felt…
Read More Félix Ziem was a French artist of the Barbizon school whose genre and landscape scenes drew from his many travels and his particular love of Venice. Félix Ziem was born…
Read More Antoine de Favray was a French portrait artist best known forcapturing the likenesses of different personalities in the Ottoman empire. He was born on September 8, 1706. Little is known…
Read More Decamps was known for his Orientalist works, with a distinctly French style.
Read More Cabanel was an academic style painter of historical, classical and religious subjects. He was one of Napoleon’s favorite painters. Together with William-Adolphe Bouguereau, he refused to allow Impressionist painter Édouard…
Read More Oudry was a French Rococo painter and tapestry designer, particularly well known for his real-world portrayal of animals and hunts.
Read More Bonnat was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Read More Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray is considered the most influential photographer of French nineteenth century photography because of the innovations that he brought to this art form. Le Gray’s first treatise…
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a 19th c. French painter whose work inspired many artists especially the Modernists, and sculptors including Auguste Rodin. Although he painted in several styles, he…
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(September 23, 1865 – April 7, 1938) French By the age of ten, Suzanne Valadon began working a variety of jobs, including waitressing, selling vegetables, and circus performing until pursuing…
Read More Marguerite Gérard was a French artist, best known for her success with genre art. Born in Grasse, she moved to Paris to live with her sister, Marie-Anne Fragonard, and her…
Read More Niki de Saint Phalle was a French artist who originally began making art as a form of therapy but eventually became a member of the Nouveau Realismé movement and a…
Read More Camille Claudel was a French sculptor. She first studied at the Académie Colarossi under Alfred Boucher, before meeting and subsequently working under Auguste Rodin. As her mentor, confidante and lover,…
Read More Louise Bourgeois was a French-born artist who spent the majority of her adult life working in New York. Throughout her career, she explored various media between painting, printing, and installations…
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Born in Paris, Marie’s father encouraged her to make her own way. She studied in the atelier of the preeminent artist of the time, Jacque-Louis David. She exhibited in the…
Read More Rosa Bonheur was born into a French family of painters. The family moved to Paris in 1828, where Bonheur grew up. Always rebellious and unruly, traditional education was not suited…
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Multi-disciplinary artist Sonia Delaunay is considered to be French because she lived and worked in Paris for most of her career, but she was born in Odessa, Ukraine. Sonia Illinitchna…
Read More Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (August 29, 1780-January 14, 1867) was a French Neoclassical Romantic painter active in the early to the mid-19th century. The beginning of Ingres’s education was limited by restrictions…
Read More Régis François Gignoux (b. 1814 – d. 1882) was an eminent nineteenth-century French artist who is most noted for producing paintings that celebrated the beauty of America’s vast landscapes. Gignoux…
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French artist Edgar Degas spent the majority of his career depicting quiet moments of Parisian life. He is primarily known for his paintings of ballet dancers, skillfully illustrating their bodies…
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Berthe Morisot was a French painter who is known for her role as one of the leading women of Impressionism. She was considered one of the most influential Impressionist painters,…
Read More Pierre Bonnard, after studying the honorable legal profession that his family desired, followed his heart and turned to art full time. He was one of the founding members of Les…
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