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French Artists and Artworks

french  artists in the art world

Art history is full of famous French artists, many of whom were Parisian painters, who have become absolute icons of the art world. While this list consists solely of male French painters, we are well aware of the omission of the many great female French artists from art history, the works of which should be recognized and applauded.

#1

Eugène Delacroix  (1798 – 1863)

Liberty Leading the People (1830)

#2

Camille Pissarro  (1830 – 1903)

Two Women Chatting by the Sea  (1856)

#3

Edgar Degas  (1834 – 1917)

The Ballet Class  (1874)

#4

Paul Cézanne  (1839 – 1906)

The Bathers  (1898 – 1905)

#5

Claude Monet  (1840 – 1926)

Impression, Sunrise  (1872)

#6

Pierre-Auguste Renoir  (1841 – 1919)

Dance at Le moulin de la Galette  (1876)

#7

Paul Gauguin  (1848 – 1903)

Tahitian Women on the Beach  (1891)

#8

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901)

Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (1891)

#9

Henri Matisse  (1869 – 1954)

La Danse  (1910)

#10

Georges Braque  (1882 – 1963) Bottle and Fishes  (1910)