Albert Gleizes
The man who brought cubism to the masses
1881-1953Alexandre Cabanel
Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge
1823-1889Alfred Sisley
Why did we forget about Alfred Sisley?
1839-1899André Breton
A psychiatrist releases his mind and invents Surrealism
1896-1966André Derain
In the shadow of brighter colors
1880-1954Anne-Louis Girodet
A phenom works himself to death
1767-1824Berthe Morisot
The soul of Impressionism
1841-1895Camille Pissarro
Peaceful anarchist, advocate of the working man
1830-1903Claude Cahun
“Under this mask, another mask”
1894-1954Claude Monet
Painting nature from a small boat
1840-1926Edgar Degas
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."
1834-1917Édouard Manet
A rebellious painter shocks the French Salon and courts his brothers wife
1832-1883Élisabeth Chaplin
A life's worth of paintings dedicated to Florence
1890-1982Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Painted for Marie Antoinette and never made a dime
1755-1842Eugène Delacroix
Drama, movement and a search for the exotic
1798-1863Félix Nadar
Photographer, caricaturist, novelist — and balloonist?
1820-1910Fernand Henri Léger
Cubism for the common man
1881-1955François Auguste René Rodin
"Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump"
1840-1917François-Thomas Germain
A disgraced silversmith, last of a dynasty
1726-1791Georges Braque
Picasso's better half
1882-1963Georges de La Tour
A Caravaggisti embraces silence
1593-1652Georges Seurat
Manipulating emotion with color
1859-1891Gustave Courbet
Status quo — what's that?
1819-1877Gustave Doré
Father of Horror, Father of Fantasy
1832-1883Gustave Moreau
A hermit explores the dreamscape
1826-1898Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Too many prostitutes and too much absinth
1864-1901Henri Matisse
100% artist
1869-1954Henri Rousseau
Painting dreams with a child's brush
1844-1910Herrad of Landsberg
A French abbess creates the first female-authored encyclopedia
1130-1195Hippolyte Bayard
The second person to invent photography
1801-1887Jacques-Louis David
Virtuoso painter, political chameleon, complete jerk
1748-1825Jean Metzinger
The third cubist
1883-1956Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Guardian of the old ways
1780-1867Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Nudes teach you everything you need to know (to paint landscapes)
1796-1875Jean-François Millet
A peasant I was born, and a peasant I will die
1814-1875Jean-Honoré Fragonard
We're all young and hot — let's make out
1732-1806Joseph Ducreux
Renaissance painter wins the internet
1735-1802Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
Visionary promoter of photography
1787-1851Louise Moillon
The original peaches-as-butts emoji
1610-1696Marcel Duchamp
Giving art a cheerful middle finger
1887-1968Marie Bracquemond
A passionate Impressionist's legacy buried by her husband
1840-1916Marie Laurencin
Cubist Feminist
1883-1956Maurice Denis
Art as prophesy
1870-1943Nicéphore Niépce
The inventor of Photography
1765-1833Odilon Redon
The faces we see in our dreams
1840-1916Paul Cézanne
A lifelong struggle to capture the intensity of life
1839-1906Paul Gauguin
In search of a lost paradise
1848-1903Pierre Bonnard
All in with color
1867-1947Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Forgotten Master
1824-1898Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A self-taught painter struggles through poverty and war
1841-1919Arc de Triomphe
1806-1836Arenas of Lutetia
100 CEBasilica of St Denis
Abbot Suger (1135 rebuild), 475 CE-1144Château de Chenonceau
1514-1522Louvre Pyramid
I.M. Pei, 1984-1989Maison Carrée
2 CEMont-Saint-Michel
William of Volpiano, 1100Notre-Dame
Pierre de Montreuil and Jean de Chelles, 1163-1345Place de la Concorde
Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1722-1830Rouen Cathedral
1030-1880Sainte-Chapelle
1238-1248