The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
Middle Ages
See also Middle Ages, Gothic architecture, Illuminated manuscript
- 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
See also Renaissance, Francis I of France, Henry II of France, Catherine de' Medici, Henry III of France, Henry IV of France, Louvre, Fontainebleau, Châteaux of the Loire Valley
- 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
See also French Baroque and Classicism, Louis XIII of France, Cardinal Richelieu, Baroque, Louis XIV of France, Palace of Versailles, Classicism
- 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 Lorrain (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
- Gaspard Dughet (1613–1675) French 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
- Guillaume Courtois (1628–1679) French painter and etcher
- François Girardon (1628–1715) sculptor
- Claude Lefebvre (1633–1675) painter and engraver
- Charles de la Fosse (1636–1716) painter
- Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720) sculptor
- Charles de La Fosse (1640–1716) French painter
- Étienne Allegrain (1644–1736) French topographical painter
- 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
See also Palace of Versailles, Louis XV of France, Madame de Pompadour, Rococo, Louis XVI of France, Neoclassicism, Enlightenment, Gobelins. For art criticism, see Denis Diderot
- 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
- Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694–1752) French painter, art commentator, and playwright
- 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
- 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
- Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734–1772), painter
- Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735–1802) French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes
- Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761-1824), painter
- 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
- Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818) - French painter
- Jacques Louis David (1748–1825) painter
- Antoine Berjon (1754–1843) - French painter and designer
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829)
- Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755–1842) painter
Nineteenth century (Romanticism to Impressionism)
See also French Revolution, Napoleon I, Romanticism, Barbizon school, Naturalism, Symbolism (arts), Impressionism, Academic art, Napoleon III of France, Photography, Modernism
- Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757–1841) - French painter known for his landscapes
- Pierre Prudhon (1758–1823) painter
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833) photographer
- Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825), French poet and painter from Brittany
- 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
- Étienne Bouhot (1780–1862) French painter and art teacher
- Alexandre-François Caminade (1783–1862) - French portraitist and a religion painter
- François Rude (1784–1855) sculptor
- Eugenie Margeurite Honoree Charen (1786–1824) French painter
- Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851) photographer
- Charles de Steuben (1788–1856) French painter active during the Napoleonic Era
- 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 Bellangé (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 (18
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