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.

• Gislebertus (12th century), sculptor
• Pierre de Montreuil (c. 1200–1266), architect
• Villard de Honnecourt (13th century), other media
• Jean Pucelle (active 1325–28), other media
• Jean Malouel (Dutch, worked in Burgundy) (1365–1416), painter
• Anastasia (fl. c. 1400), manuscript illuminator
• Claus Sluter (Dutch, worked in Burgundy from 1395–1406), sculptor
• the Limbourg brothers (Pol and Hermann) (Dutch artists working in Burgundy around 1403–1416), other media

• Jacques Morel (c. 1395–1459), sculptor
• Enguerrand Quarton (c. 1410 – c. 1466), painter, miniatures
• Henri Bellechose (Flemish born) (active 1415–1440), painter
• Simon Marmion (c. 1420–1489), illuminations
• Jean Fouquet (1420–1481), painter, illuminations
• Jean Colombe (1430–1493), illuminations
• Michel Colombe (c. 1430 – c. 1515), sculptor
• Nicolas Froment (c. 1450 – c. 1490), painter
• Jean Perréal (c. 1455 – c. 1528), painter, illuminations
• Antoine Le Moiturier (active in the 1460s), sculptor
• Jean Clouet (c. 1485–1541) (Flemish born), painter, miniatures
• Jean Duvet (c. 1485 – c. 1570), engraver
• Josse Lieferinxe (active 1493–1508) (Flemish born), painter
• Nicolas Dipre (fl. 1495–1532), painter
• Jehan Cousin the elder (1500–1593), painter, engraver, sculptor
• Ligier Richier (1500–1567), sculptor
• Pierre Quesnel (c.1502–1580), painter
• Philibert Delorme (or de L'Orme) (1505/1510–1570), sculptor, architectural plans
• Pierre Bontemps (1505/1510–after 1562), sculptor
• Jean Goujon (c. 1510 – c. 1565), sculptor
• Bernard Palissy (1510–1590), master potter
• Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1510–1585), 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
• Jean Cousin the Younger (c. 1522–1593), painter
• Germain Pilon (c.1535–1590), sculptor
• Barthélemy Prieur (c.1536–1616), sculptor
• Étienne Dumonstier (1540–1603), painter
• Ambroise Dubois (c.1542–1614) (Flemish born), painter
• Pierre Dumonstier I (c.1545–c.1610), painter
• Thomas de Leu (1560–1612), engraver
• Toussaint Dubreuil (c.1561–1602), painter
• Léonard Gaultier (c.1561-1641), engraver
• 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
• Jean de Beaugrand (1584–1640), lineographer

See also French Baroque and Classicism, Louis XIII of France, Cardinal Richelieu, Baroque, Louis XIV of France, Palace of Versailles, Classicism

• Philippe Millereau (1570–1610), painter
• Daniel Dumonstier (1574–1646), draftsman
• Pierre Dumonstier II (1585–1656), draftsman
• Claude Deruet (1588–1660) (in Lorraine), painter
• Simon Vouet (1590–1649), painter
• Jacques Callot (1592–1635) (in Lorraine), engraver
• Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), painter
• Claude Vignon (1593–1670), painter, printmaker, illustrator
• Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), painter
• Antoine Le Nain (before 1600–?), painter
• Louis Le Nain (after 1600–?), painter
• Nicolas Lagneau (fl c. 1600–c. 1650), draftsman
• Abraham Bosse (1602–1676), engraver
• Claude Gelée, called Claude Lorrain (1600–1682), painter
• Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674)
• Pierre-Antoine Lemoine (1605–1665), still-life painter
• Laurent de La Hyre (1606–1565), painter
• Mathieu Le Nain (1607–c.1677), painter
• Louise Moillon (1610–1696), painter
• Pierre Mignard (1612–1695), painter
• Gaspard Dughet (1613–1675), 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), painter and etcher
• François Girardon (1628–1715), sculptor
• Catherine Duchemin (1630–1698), painter
• Claude Lefèbvre (1633–1675), painter and engraver
• Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636–1697), engraver
• Charles de la Fosse (1636–1716), painter
• Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720), sculptor
• Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (1641–1676), engraver
• Étienne Allegrain (1644–1736), topographical painter
• Jean Jouvenet (1644–1717), painter
• François de Troy (1645–1730), painter
• Madeleine Boullogne (1646–1710), still life painter
• Marie Blancour (fl. 1650–1699), painter
• Marie Courtois (c.1655–1703), miniature painter
• Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746), painter
• Nicolas Coustou (1658–1733), sculptor
• Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743), painter
• Antoine Coypel (1661–1722), sculptor
• François Desportes (1661–1743), painter

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
• Marie-Anne Horthemels (1682–1727), engraver
• 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), 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-Étienne 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
• Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721–1820), draughtsman, watercolorist, painter in gouache
• 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-Baptiste Defernex (1729–1783), sculptor
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), painter
• Jean-Jacques Durameau (1733–1796), painter
• Hubert Robert (1733–1808), painter, engraver
• Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734–1772), painter
• Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802), 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–c.1800), painter
• A. Duval, artist and engraver active 1769-1801
• Jean Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), sculptor
• Jean-Michel Moreau (Moreau the younger) (1741–1814), engraver
• Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818), painter
• Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), painter
• Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin (1750–1817), portrait artist
• Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751–1824), portrait and landscape artist
• Michel Garnier (1753–1819), painter
• Rosalie Filleul (1752–1794), painter
• Antoine Berjon (1754–1843), painter and designer
• Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829)
• Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), painter
• Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757–1841), painter known for his landscapes
• Pierre Prudhon (1758–1823), painter

See also French Revolution, Napoleon I, Romanticism, Barbizon school, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Academic art, Napoleon III of France, Photography, Modernism

• Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), painter
• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), photographer
• Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825), 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
• Adélaïde Victoire Hall (1772–1844), painter
• Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet (1815–1886), lithographer
• Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777–1837), painter, draftsman
• Jean-Baptiste Goyet (1779–1854), painter
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), painter
• Étienne Bouhot (1780–1862), painter and art teacher
• Alexandre-François Caminade (1783–1862), portraitist and religious painter
• François Rude (1784–1855), sculptor
• Eugénie Charen (1786–1824), painter
• Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851), photographer
• Charles de Steuben (1788–1856), painter active during the Napoleonic Era
• Horace Vernet (1789–1863), painter
• Jules Robert Auguste (c.1789–1850), painter
• Elisa de Lamartine (1790–1863), painter and sculptor
• Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), painter
• Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), painter
• Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875), sculptor
• Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), painter
• Raymond Bonheur (1796–1849), painter
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875), painter
• Fanny Alaux (1797–1880), painter
• Paul Delaroche (1797–1856), painter
• Julie Hugo (1797–1865), painter
• Eugène Goyet (1798–1857), painter
• Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), painter
• Xavier Leprince (1799–1826), painter
• Alfred Johannot (1800–1837), painter and engraver
• Hippolyte Bellangé (1800–1866), painter
• Camille Chantereine (1810–1847), painter
• Achille Devéria (1800–1857), painter, engraver
• Charles Philipon (1800–1861), caricaturist
• Paul Huet (1803–1869), painter
• François-Émile de Lansac (1803–1890), painter
• Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, called) (1803–1847), engraver
• Eugène Isabey (1803–1886), painter
• Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804–1860), painter
• Édouard Viénot (born 1804), painter
• Zoé Goyet (died 1869), pastel portrait artist
• Eugène Lepoittevin (1806–1870), painter
• Hippolyte Bayard (1807–1887), photographer
• Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), painter, lithographer, sculptor
• 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
• Eugène André Oudiné (1810–1875), sculptor, engraver
• Jules Dupré (1811–1889), painter
• Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), painter
• Boissard de Boisdenier (1813–1866), painter
• Charles Jacque (1813–1894), painter
• Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), painter
• Thomas Couture (1815–1879), painter
• Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815–1891), painter
• Jacques-Eugene Feyen (1815–1908), painter
• Charles Marville (1816–1879), painter, engraver, photographer
• Antoine Chintreuil (1816–1873), painter
• Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna (1817–1878), painter
• François Bonvin (1817–1887), painter
• Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878), painter
• Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819–1891) (Dutch, worked in France), painter
• Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), painter
• Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), painter
• Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876), painter
• Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820–1910), photographer
• Charles Méryon (1821–1868), printmaker (etching)
• Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), painter
• Marie Adrien Persac (1823–?), painter, cartographer, architect, civil engineer, photographer
• Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), painter
• Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824–1887), sculptor and painter
• Gustave Boulanger (1824–1888), painter
• Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), painter
• Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (1824–1886), painter
• Théodule Ribot (1824–1891), painter
• Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), painter
• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898), painter
• William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), painter
• Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), painter
• Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875), sculptor
• Elie Delaunay (1828–1891), painter
• Camille Alfred Pabst (1828–1898), painter
• Achille Emperaire (1829–1898), painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne
• Léon Germain Pelouse (1838–1891), painter
• Lucien Joulin (1842–1878), painter
• Gaston de Laperriere (1848–1920), painter
• Gabriel Guay (1848–1923), painter
• Aimé Morot (1850–1915), painter and son in law of Jean-Léon Gérôme
• Gabriel-Charles Deneux [fr] (b. 1856), encaustic painter
• Jules-Cyrille Cavé (4 January 1859 – 12 May 1949), painter

See also Modern art, Modernism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Les Nabis, Fauvism, Symbolism, Symbolist painters, Art Nouveau, Primitivism

• Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), painter
• Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), photographer
• Édouard Manet (1832–1883), painter
• Gustave Doré (1832–1883), engraver
• Louis Émile Benassit (1833–1902) artist and raconteur
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painter, sculptor
• Pierre Mallet (1836–1898), painter of ceramics
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), painter
• Jules Chéret (1836–1932), painter, other media
• Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), painter
• François Salle (1839–1899)
• Odilon Redon (1840–1916), painter, draftsman, lithographer
• Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), sculptor
• Claude Monet (1840–1926), painter; a founder of French Impressionist painting
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), painter
• Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870), painter
• Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), painter
• Marie Bracquemond (1841–1916), painter
• Fernand Pelez (1843–1913), painter
• Alexander Louis Leloir (1843–1884), painter
• Henri Rousseau ("Le Douanier Rousseau") (1844–1910), painter
• Jean Antonin Mercié (1845–1916), sculptor
• Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902), painter
• Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), painter
• Henri Biva (1848–1929), painter
• Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884), painter
• Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), painter, sculptor
• Henry Lerolle (1848–1929), painter
• Eugène Carrière (1849–1906), painter
• Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (1851–1932), painter
• Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) (Dutch, worked in France), painter
• Charles Angrand (1854–1926), painter
• Emilie Jenny Weyl (1855–1934), sculptor
• Édouard Bisson (1856–1939), painter
• Henry-Edmond Cross (1856–1910), painter
• Henry Moret (1856–1913), painter
• Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927), photographer
• Mathurin Janssaud (1857–1940), painter
• Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), painter and sculptor
• Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859–1891), painter
• Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929), sculptor
• Aristide Maillol (1861–1944), sculptor
• Louis Vivin (1861–1936), painter
• Antonio de la Gandara (1861–1917), painter
• Gaston Bussière (1862–1929), Symbolism movement painter and illustrator
• Ernest de Chamaillard (1862–1931), painter
• Henri Delavallée (1862–1943), painter
• Paul Signac (1863–1935), painter
• Camille Bouvagne (1864–1936), painter
• René Georges Hermann-Paul (1864–1940), graphic artist, illustrator, painter
• William Didier-Pouget (1864–1959), painter
• Henri Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), painter
• Paul Sérusier (1864–1927), painter
• Paul Ranson (1864–1909), painter
• Seraphine Louis (1864–1942), painter
• Henri Jourdain (1864–1931), painter, prints or lithographs of landscapes usually by the water
• Albert Aurier (1865–1892), poet, art critic and painter devoted to Symbolism
• Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter
• Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) (Swiss, worked in France), painter, engraver
• Jacqueline Marval (1866–1932), the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet, French painter
• Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), painter
• Angèle Delasalle (1867–1941, painter, engraver
• Paule Gobillard (1867–1946), painter
• Jeanne Itasse-Broquet (1867–1941), sculptor
• Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867–1944), painter
• Hector Guimard (1867–1942), architect and decorator
• Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940), painter
• Georges Lacombe (1868–1916), sculptor
• Émile Bernard (1868–1941), painter
• Henri Matisse (1869–1954), painter, other media
• Adolf de Meyer (1869–1949), photographer
• Georges d'Espagnat (1870–1950), painter, illustrator, engraver

See also Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Modernism, Cubism, Puteaux Group, Dada, Surrealism

• Maurice Dubois (1869–1944), painter
• Georges Rouault (1871–1958), painter
• Léon Printemps (1871–1945), painter
• František Kupka (1871–1957) (Czech, worked in France), painter
• Henri-Charles Manguin (1874–1943), painter
• Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (1875–1928), painter
• Albert Marquet (1875–1947), painter
• Jacques Villon (1875–1963), painter
• Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957) (French, born in Romania), sculptor
• Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958) (Flemish, worked in France), painter
• Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876–1918), sculptor
• Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), painter
• Jeanne Baudot (1877–1957), painter
• René Charles Edmond His, (1877–1960), landscape painter
• Jean Crotti (1878–1958) (Swiss), painter
• Louis Marcoussis (Louis Markus) (1878–1941 or 1883–1941) (Polish, worked in France), painter
• Francis Picabia (1879–1953), painter
• Maurice Berty (1884–1946), illustrator
• André Derain (1880–1954), painter
• Joseph Hémard (1880–1961), illustrator
• Charles Picart Le Doux (1881—1959), painter
• Albert Gleizes (1881–1952), painter, writer, theorist
• Henri Le Fauconnier (1881–1946), painter
• Jacob Macznik (1905–1945), painter^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
• Fernand Léger (1881–1955), painter
• Georges Braque (1882–1963), painter
• Auguste Chabaud (1882–1955), painter
• Auguste Herbin (1882–1960), painter
• Jean Metzinger (1883–1956), painter, engraver, poet, writer, theorist
• Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter
• Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955), painter
• Marie-Renée Ucciani (1883–1963), painter, sculptor
• Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884–1974), painter
• Jacques Maroger (1884–1962), painter
• Robert Delaunay (1885–1941), painter
• André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), painter
• Raymond Wintz (1884–1956), painter
• Pierre Brissaud (1885–1964), painter
• Roger de La Fresnaye (1885–1925), painter
• Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886–1943), French Post-Impressionist painter of the Rouen School (l'École de Rouen)
• Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1956), painter
• Jean (Hans) Arp (1886–1966), painter, sculptor
• Marc Chagall (1887–1985) (born in Belarus), painter
• Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), painter, sculptor, other media
• Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889–1963), painter
• Anna Quinquaud (1890–1984), explorer and sculptor
• Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967) (Russian born), sculptor
• Sabine Desvallières (1891–1935), French embroiderer and nun
• Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) (born in Lithuania), sculptor
• Max Ernst (1891–1976) (German born), painter, sculptor
• Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron (1891–1949), painter
• Louis Favre (1892–1956), painter, creator of lithographs
• Bram van Velde (1892–1981) (Dutch, worked in France), painter
• Chaïm Soutine (1894–1943) (born in Belarus), painter
• Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986), photographer
• Jean Maurice Rothschild (1902–1998), furniture artist, interior designer, muralist
• Gen Paul (1895–1975), painter, engraver
• Albert Gilles (1895–1979), metal embosser, working with copper
• Lucie Bouniol (1896–1988), sculptor, painter
• André Masson (1896–1987), painter
• René Iché (1897–1954), sculptor, painter
• Jean Fautrier (1898–1964), painter
• Georges Gimel (1898–1962), painter, engraver, sculptor
• Henri Michaux (1899–1984) (Belgian), painter
• Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary), photographer
• Yves Tanguy (1900–1955) (naturalized American), painter

• René Pellos (1900–1998), cartoonist
• Madeleine Schlumberger or Marie d’Ailleurs’ (1900–1980), artist, writer
• Marcelle Bergerol (1901–1989), painter
• Michel-Marie Poulain (]1906–1991), painter
• Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) (Swiss, worked in Paris), sculptor, painter
• Alfred-Georges Regner (1901–1987), painter, engraver
• Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), painter
• Charles Cobelle (1902–1994), painter
• Hans Bellmer (1902–1975) (French, born in Germany), sculptor, photographer, engraver
• Maurice Blanchard (1903–1969), painter
• Victor Brauner (1903–1966) (Romanian), painter
• Hans Hartung (1904–1992) (born in Germany), painter
• Jean Hélion (1904–1987), painter
• Pierre Tal-Coat (1905–1985), painter
• Elisa Breton (1906–2000), artist and writer, third wife of French writer and surrealist André Breton
• Henri Cadiou (1906–1989), painter
• Victor Vasarely (1908–1997) (born in Hungary), painter
• Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, called "Balthus") (1908–2001) (Polish born), painter
• Mario Tauzin (1909–1979)
• Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq (1910–1973), illustrator
• Jacques Nathan Garamond (1910–2001), graphic designer, illustrator, painter
• Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910–2007) (born in Hungary), photographer
• Othello Radou (1910–2006), painter
• Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) (lived and died in America), sculptor, other media
• Ervin Marton (1912–1968), photographer and artist
• Wols (1913–1951) (born in Germany), painter
• Pierre Wemaëre (1913–2010), painter
• Etienne Martin (1913–1995), sculptor
• Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955) (French, Russian origin), painter
• Gerard Locardi (1915–1998), painter
• François Lanzi (1916–1988), painter
• Constantine Andreou (1917–2007) (Greek, Brazilian born), painter, sculptor
• Marcel Mouly (1918–2008), painter, print maker
• Bernard Cathelin (1919–2004), painter
• Maurice Boitel (1919–2007), painter
• Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), painter
• Gabrielle Bellocq (1920–1999), painter
• César Baldaccini (called "César") (1921–1998), sculptor
• Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921–2021), painter
• Georges Mathieu (1921–2012), painter
• Francois Fiedler (1921–2001), painter
• Simon Hantaï (1922–2018) (born in Hungary), painter
• Paul Crotto (1922–2016), painter, sculptor and printmaker
• François Ozenda (1923–1976), painter
• Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) (Swiss), sculptor
• Robert Filliou (1926–1987), other media
• Raymond Hains (1926–2005), other media
• Paul Rebeyrolle (1926–2005), painter
• François Morellet (1926–2016), painter
• Jacques de la Villeglé (1926–2022), other media (ripped posters)
• François Dilasser (1926–2012), painter
• Georges Badin (1927–2014), painter
• Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), painter
• Yves Klein (1928–1962), painter
• Jacques Rivette (1928–2016), filmmaker
• Arman (Armand Fernandez) (1928–2005), sculptor
• Gérard Gasiorowski (1930–1986), painter, other media
• Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930–2002), sculptor
• Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) (Uruguay/French, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico), abstract realism
• Jules Michel (1931–), painter, sculptor
• Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019), artist, illustrator
• Bernard Rancillac (1931–2021), painter, sculptor
• Jean-Marie Straub (1933–2022) and Danièle Huillet (1936–2006), filmmakers
• Lydia Corbett (1934–), artist
• Jean Pierre Serrier (1934–1989), painter
• Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1934–2002) (son of Victor Vasarely), painter
• Jean-Michel Sanejouand (1934–2021), sculptor, painter
• Ben Vautier (called "Ben") (1935–), painter, other media
• Martial Raysse (1936–), painter
• Daniel Buren (1938–), sculptor, painter
• Pierre Laffillé (1938–2011), painter
• Henri Sert (1938–1964), painter
• Gérard Fromanger (1939–2021), painter, other media
• Sandra Jayat (c.1939–), painter, poet, author
• Nancy Wilson-Pajic (1941–), media artist, feminist artist, installation artist, photographer
• Bernar Venet (1941–) (lives in America), sculptor
• Daniel Dezeuze (1942–), other media
• Anne Poirier (1942–), painter, other media
• Ksenia Milicevic (1942–), painter
• Tania Mouraud (1942–), contemporary artist
• Jean Jacques Surian (1942–), painter and ceramist, lives in Marseilles
• Patrick Bokanowski (1943–), filmmaker
• Pierre Risch (1943–), painter, lithograph, engraver, designer, pastellist, watercolorist
• Slobodan Pajic (1943–), painter, media artist, installation artist
• René-Louis Baron (1944–2016), conceptualist, algorithmic music composer
• Christian Boltanski (1944–2021), painter, photographer, other media, sculptor
• Jacques Pellegrin (1944–2021), painter
• Henri Richelet (1944–2020), painter
• Thierry Agullo (1945–1980), mixed media
• Jean-Yves Lechevallier (1946–), sculptor
• Gérard Garouste (1946–), sculptor, painter, other media
• Jean-Marie Poumeyrol (1946–), painter
• Denis Schneider (1946–), painter
• Yves Hayat (1946–), painter
• Orlan (1947–), performance artist, body artist
• Champion Métadier (1947–), visual artist
• Bracha L. Ettinger (1948–) (born in Tel Aviv), painter, photographer, new media, artists' books
• Thibaut de Reimpré (1949–2023), abstract painter
• Claudine Drai (1951–), visual artist
• Claude-Max Lochu (1951–), painter
• Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951–), painter, sculptor, photographer, writer
• Guillerm Zamor (1951–), painter, sculptor, writer
• Jean-Marc Bustamante (1952–), painter, sculptor, photographer
• Hélène Agofroy (1953–), contemporary artist
• Thierry Bisch (1953–), painter
• Bernard Frize (1954–), painter
• Michel Mimran (1954–)
• Jean Paul Leon (1955–), painter, sculptor, writer
• Joel Ducorroy (1955–), licence plate artist
• Patrick Moya (1955–), painter, sculptor, media artist (see fr:Patrick Moya)
• Patrick Mimran (1956–), multimedia artist
• Michel De Caso (1956–), painter, sculptor
• Robert Combas (1957–), painter
• Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen) (1957–), media artist
• Pascal Lecocq (1958–) painter, set designer
• Emmanuel Flipo (1958–), painter
• Thierry Noir (1958–), artist and muralist
• Hervé Di Rosa (1959–), painter
• Zaven Paré (1961–), new media artist
• Corinne Medina-Saludo (1961–), painter and drawer
• Victor Orly (1962–), (lives and works in Marseilles), painter, ceramist
• Pierre Huyghe (1962–), media, film, video
• Bibi (1964–), installation artist
• Damien Valero (1965–), mixed media artist
• Marie Jaffredo (1966–), comics creator
• Manu Farrarons (1967–), tattoo artist, graphic designer, illustrator, other media
• Lionel Estève (1967–), (lives and works in Brussels), sculpture and installation artist
• Phil. Macquet (1967–), painter
• Johanna Schipper (known as "Johanna"; 1967–), bande dessinée artist
• Béatrice Cussol (1970–), watercolor, drawing, mural
• Elsa Dax (1972–), painter
• Béatrice Tillier (1972–), illustrator and bande dessinée cartoonist
• Virginie Augustin (1973–), comics and animated features artist
• Jean-François Batellier (1974–), caricaturist and cartoonist
• Abdelkader Benchamma (1975–), drawings, sculptor
• Morgane Tschiember (1976–), sculptor, video artist
• Y Liver (1977–) (lives and works in Paris), video maker and performance artists
• Aude Massot (1983–), comic book artist
• Oriane Lassus (1987–), cartoonist and illustrator
• Seb Toussaint (1988–), artist and muralist
• Jisbar (1989–), artist and painter

• Natalie d'Arbeloff, cartoonist and painter
• Bazévian Delacapucinière, painter
• Youssef Tabti, concept artist

• Eugène Atget (Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget) (1857–1927)
• Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) (born in Hungary)
• Hippolyte Bayard (1807–1887)
• Adeline Boutain (1862–1946), photographer, postcard publisher
• Adolphe Braun (1812–1877)
• Alexandra Boulat (1962–2007), photographer
• Sophie Calle (1953–), other media, photographer
• Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004)
• Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787–1851)
• Robert Doisneau (1912–1994)
• Pierre Dubreuil (1872–1944), photographer
• Philippe Echaroux (1983–)
• Lucien Hervé (László Elkán) (1910–2007), photographer (born in Hungary)
• Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986)
• Ange Leccia (1952–), photographer, filmmaker
• Jean-François Lepage (1960–), photographer
• Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904)
• Charles Marville (1816–1879)
• Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon, called "Nadar") (1820–1910)
• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), inventor of photography
• Pierre et Gilles (Pierre: 1949, Gilles: 1953), photographers (active since 1976)
• Michel Poivert (1965–), photography historian, president of Société française de photographie
• Herman Puig (originally from Cuba), photographer, filmmaker
• Constant Puyo (1857–1933)
• Marc Riboud (1923–2016), photographer
• Georges Rousse (1947–), photographer
• Bettina Rheims (1952–), photographer
• Willy Ronis (1910–2009), photographer
• Lise Sarfati (1958–), photographer
• Jean-Louis Schoellkopf (1946–), photographer
• Alex Strohl (1989–)
• Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud (1866–1951), photographer and military officer
• Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951–)
• Xavier Veilhan (1963–), photographer, other media
• Jean-Marie Villard (1828–1899)
• Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913–1951) (German, worked in France), photographer

• Art history
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