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1. Paul Gauguin Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French post-Impressionist painter. Up to the age of 35, he was a business man, but after that he became a painter. He lived and...
2. Gustave Courbet Gustave Courbet (1819-77) was a French painter and the leader of the Realist school of French painting. Rejecting both classical and romantic styles of painting,...
3. Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a Russian painter. From 1910 he lived mainly in France. His paintings show rich color and wonderful imagination, many of them...
4. Henri Rousseau Henri Rousseau (1844 - 1910) was French painter of Primitive style. HIs paintings, seemingly naive or childish, were in fact quite sophisticated, direct ima...
5. Henri Matisse Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a French artist and sculptor. He was the leader of the Fauve movement and was associated with Cubism. He employed simple, bri...
6. Who Is Pierre Bonnard: French Painter and Printmaker Are you a fan of the painter Pierre Bonnard? He is one of my favorite painters. I have only seen a couple of his works in a gallery. After viewing this lens...
7. Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French Impressionist painter and sculptor. Initially producing historical paintings, he abandoned oils for pastel. He created...
8. Georges-Pierre Seurat Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859-91) was a French painter and the founder of Neo-Impressionism. His most famous work was Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande...
9. Camille Corot Camille Corot (1796-1875) was a French landscape painter and printer. He produced a prodigious output of paintings during his lifetime. His landscape paintings...
10. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman and illustrator of the post-impressionist period. He created many paintings...
11. Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain (1600-82) was a French painter of the Baroque period. He was famous for his landscape paintings, which he created in a poetic style. Before Claude...
12. François Boucher Francois Boucher (1703-70) was a French painter in the Rococo style. Producing many pictures, etchings and tapestry designs, he became perhaps the most fash...
13. Paul Cézanne Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) was a French painter. He exhibited with the Impressionists in 1874, but soon developed his own style called Post-Impressionism. Ce...
14. Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was French painter of the classical period. His paintings were mainly on historical, mythological and religious themes. They were...
15. Antoine Watteau Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter and engraver. He began his career painting military scenes, but it was his mythological painting Embarkation...
16. Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French Impressionist painter. He is best known for his portraits of women and children and also painted many fine landscapes. His...
17. Claude Monet Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Impressionist school of painting. With Renoir, he developed the "broken color"...
18. Camille Pissarro Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was one of the original and one of the leading French Impressionist painters. He exhibited his paintings in all eight of the Im...
19. Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) was a French painter who specialized in still lifes and scenes of simple, unsentimental domestic interiors. His paintings...
20. Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was a French historical painter. Originally court painter to Louis XVI, he lent his support to the French Revolution and painted...