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French Artists
French Artists by their Movement and Famous Works
Term | Definition |
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Jean Fouquet | Miniature/Portrait Painter - Book of Hours |
Nicolas Poussin | Baroque Painter - The Rape of the Sabine Women; Et in Arcadia Ego; A Dance to the Music of Time; Landscape with Saint John on Patmos; Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion; The Four Seasons; Sleeping Venus with Cupid; The Crossing of the Red Sea |
Georges de La Tour | Baroque Painter - The Hurdy Gurdy Player; The Musicians' Brawl; The Dream of Saint Joseph; Adoration of the Shepherds; Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene; The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds |
Claude Lorrain | Baroque Painter - The Flight into Egypt; Landscape with St. Maria de Cervello; Landscape with the Temptation of St. Anthony; The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba; Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid |
Jean-Antoine Watteau | Rococo Painter - The Embarkation of Cythera; L'Enseign de Gersaint; L'Indifferent; Jupiter and Antiope |
Francois Boucher | Rococo Painter - Portrait of Madame de Pompadour; The Rising of the Sun; The Setting of the Sun; Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas; Venus Consoling Love; Diana Leaving the Bath |
Jean Honore Fragonard | Rococo Painter - The Swing; A Young Girl Reading; The Bolt; Blind Man's Bluff; Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe; Portrait of Denis Diderot |
Claude Joseph Vernet | Rococo Painter - Four Times of the Day |
Jacques Louis David | Neoclassical Painter - The Funeral Games of Patroclus; Belisarius Begging for Alms; The Death of Socrates; The Tennis Court Oath; The Death of Marat; Napoleon Crossing the Alps; The Coronation of Napoleon; Napoleon in His Study; Lycurgus of Sparta |
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | Neoclassical Painter - Portrait of Monsieur Bertin; The Turkish Bash; The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the Tent of Achilles; The Vow of Louis XIII; The Apotheosis of Homer; La Grande Odalisque |
Gustave Courbet | Realist Painter - The Stone Breakers; A Burial at Ornans; The Painter's Studio |
Honore Daumier | Realist Painter - The Third-Class Carriage; The Laundress; Ecce Homo |
Jean-Francois Millet | Realist Painter - The Gleaners; The Angelus; The Potato harvest |
Theodore Gericault | Romanticist Painter - The Raft of the Medusa; The Charging Chasseur; The Wounded Cuirassier; The 1821 Derby at Epsom; Insane Woman; Portrait of a Kleptomaniac; The Woman with a Gambling Mania |
Eugene Delacroix | Romanticist Painter - Liberty Leading the People; Massacre at Chios; The Death of Sardanapalus; The Barque of Dante; The Women of Algiers; The Last Words of Emperor Marcus Aurelius; The Lion Hunt; Portrait of Frederic Chopin; Portrait of George Sand |
Edouard Manet | Realist/Impressionist Painter - Luncheon on the Grass; Olympia; Music in the Tuileries; Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets; Self-Portrait with Palette; The Races at Longchamp; The Execution of Emperor Maximilian; The Absinthe Drinker |
Claude Monet | Impressionist Painter - Impression, Sunrise; Rouen Cathedral Series; London Parliament Series; Water Lilies; Haystacks; Poplars |
Alfred Sisley | Impressionist Painter - Resting by a Stream at the Edge of the Wood; Avenue of Chestnut Trees near La Celle-Saint-Cloud; St. Martin Canal; Under the Bridge at Hampton Court |
Camille Pissarro | Impressionist Painter - Hay Harvest at Eragny; Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather; Le Boulevard de Montmartre; Matinee de Printempts; A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise |
Edgar Degas | Impressionist Painter - A Cotton Office in New Orleans; The Dance Class; L'Absinthe; Place de la Concorde; La Toilette; Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (sculpture); The Bellelli Family; Woman with Chrysanthemums |
Pierre Auguste Renoir | Impressionist Painter - The Theater Box; The Swing; Luncheon of the Boating Party; Two Sisters; Portrait of Irene Cahen d'Anvers; Girls at the Piano; Bal du Moulin de la Galette |
Georges Seurat | Impressionist Painter - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte; Bathers at Asnieres |
Paul Cezanne | Post-Impressionist Painter - Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue; Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier; The Card Players; The Bathers |
Paul Gauguin | Post-Impressionist Painter - Study of a Nude; The Yellow Christ; Still Life with Portrait of Laval; Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?; Two Tahitian Women; Spirit of the Dead Watching; The Day of the God |
Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec | Post-Impressionist Painter - At the Moulin Rouge; La Blanchisseuse; Rousse |
Henri Rousseau | Post-Impressionist Painter - The Sleeping Gypsy; Tiger in a Tropical Storm; The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope; Boy on the Rocks; The Snake Charmer; The Dream |
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot | Proto-Impressionist Painter - The Bridge at Narni; Ville d'Avray; Venise, La Piazzetta; Femme Lisant |
Henri Matisse | Fauvist Painter - Woman with a Hat; The Joy of Life; Nu Bleu; La Danse; L'Atelier Rouge; Le Mur Rose; Les Toits de Collioure; The Young Sailor II |
Andre Derain | Fauvist Painter - The Drying Sails; Charing Cross Bridge, London |
Marcel Duchamp | Dadaist/Cubist/Surrealist Painter - Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2; Etant Donnes; The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even; Fountain (sculpture); Bicycle Wheel (sculpture) |
Nicholas of Verdun | Sculptor - Verdun Altar; Shrine of the Three Kings |
Jean-Antoine Houdon | Sculptor - Winter; Bust of Armand Thomas; Bust of Voltaire; Bust of George Washington; Skinned Man; Diana |
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux | Sculptor - Why Born Enslaved?; La Danse; Ugolino and His Sons |
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi | Sculptor - Statue of Liberty; Marquis de Lafayette; The Bartholdi Fountain; Statue of Christopher Columbus |
Auguste Rodin | Sculptor - The Thinker; The Kiss; The Burghers of Calais; The Gates of Hell; The Age of Bronze; The Walking Man |
Aristide Maillol | Sculptor - The River; Air; Action in Chains; Flora, Nude; Nymph; The Mountain |
Salomon de Brosse | Architect - Luxembourg Palace; Chateau de Montceaux-en-Brie |
Claude Perrault | Architect - Louvre Colonnade (East Façade); Paris Observatory; Church of St-Beoit-le-Betourne |
Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart | Architect - The Palace of Versailles |
Andre Le Notre | Architect - Palace of Versailles Gardens; Chateau de Chantilly Gardens; Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte Gardens |
Ange-Jacques Gabriel | Architect - Place de la Concorde; Ecole Militaire; Petit Trianon |
Etienne-Louis Boulle | Architect - Hotel Alexandre |
Claude-Nicholas Ledoux | Architect - Saline Royal |
Gustave Eiffel | Architect - Eiffel Tower; Garabit Viaduct |
Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps | Architect - Suez Canal |
Charles Garnier | Architect - Palais Garnier; Opera de Monte-Carlo |
Auguste Perret | Architect - Theatre des Champs-Elysess; St. Joseph's Church; Eglise Notre-Dame du Raincy |
Le Corbusier | Architect - Villa Savoye; Villa La Roche; Unite d'Habitation; Notre Dame du Haut |