Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Clearing the way for women
1749 – 1803
Albert Gleizes
The man who brought cubism to the masses
1881 – 1953
Albert Joseph Pénot
Have you seen this bat-woman before?
1862 – 1930
Alexandre Cabanel
Creativity vs the Académie
1823 – 1889
Alfred Sisley
Why did we forget about Alfred Sisley?
1839 – 1899
André Breton
A psychiatrist releases his mind and invents Surrealism
1896 – 1966
André Derain
In the shadow of brighter colors
1880 – 1954
Anne Genevieve Greuze
1762 – 1842
Anne Vallayer-Coster
1744 – 1818
Anne-Louis Girodet
A phenom works himself to death
1767 – 1824
Berthe Morisot
The soul of Impressionism
1841 – 1895
Camille Pissarro
Peaceful anarchist, advocate of the working man
1830 – 1903
Claude Cahun
“Under this mask, another mask”
1894 – 1954
Claude Lorrain
1600 – 1682
Claude Monet
Painting nature from a small boat
1840 – 1926
Constance Mayer
1775 – 1821
Dora Maar
Fearsome interiors
1907 – 1997
Edgar Degas
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."
1834 – 1917
Édouard Manet
A rebellious painter shocks the French Salon and courts his brothers wife
1832 – 1883
Édouard Vuillard
1868 – 1940
Élisabeth Chaplin
A life's worth of paintings dedicated to Florence
1890 – 1982
Élisabeth Sophie Chéron
1648 – 1711
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Painted for Marie Antoinette and never made a dime
1755 – 1842
Émile Bernard
Losing the art-fight with Gauguin
1868 – 1941
Eugène Delacroix
Drama, movement and a search for the exotic
1798 – 1863
Eva Gonzalès
1849 – 1883
Félix Nadar
Photographer, novelist... balloonist?
1820 – 1910
Fernand Henri Léger
Cubism for the common man
1881 – 1955
Francis Picabia
1879 – 1953
François Anne David
1741 – 1824
François Auguste René Rodin
“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump”
1840 – 1917
François Boucher
1703 – 1770
François-Thomas Germain
A disgraced silversmith, last of a dynasty
1726 – 1791
Georges Braque
Picasso's better half
1882 – 1963
Georges de La Tour
A Caravaggisti embraces silence
1593 – 1652
Georges Seurat
Manipulating emotion with color
1859 – 1891
Gustave Courbet
Status quo — what's that?
1819 – 1877
Gustave Doré
Father of Horror, Father of Fantasy
1832 – 1883
Gustave Moreau
A hermit explores the dreamscape
1826 – 1898
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Too many prostitutes and too much absinthe
1864 – 1901
Henri Matisse
100% artist
1869 – 1954
Henri Rousseau
Painting dreams with a child's brush
1844 – 1910
Henriette Browne
1829 – 1901
Herrad of Landsberg
Creating the first female-authored encyclopedia
1130 – 1195
Hippolyte Bayard
The second person to invent photography
1801 – 1887
Honoré Daumier
1808 – 1879
Jacques-Louis David
Virtuoso painter, political chameleon, complete jerk
1748 – 1825
Jean Metzinger
The third cubist
1883 – 1956
Jean Poyer
1445 – 1503
Jean-Antoine Watteau
1684 – 1721
Arc de Triomphe 1806 – 1836
Arenas of Lutetia 100CE
Basilica of St Denis Abbot Suger (1135 rebuild), 475 – 1144
Château de Chenonceau 1514 – 1522
Louvre Pyramid I.M. Pei, 1984 – 1989
Maison Carrée 2CE
Mont-Saint-Michel William of Volpiano, 1100
Notre-Dame Pierre de Montreuil and Jean de Chelles, 1163 – 1345
Place de la Concorde Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1722 – 1830
Rouen Cathedral 1030 – 1880
Sainte-Chapelle 1238 – 1248
