Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Clearing the way for women
1749-1803
Albert Gleizes
The man who brought cubism to the masses
1881-1953
Alexandre Cabanel
Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge
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-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 Monet
Painting nature from a small boat
1840-1926
Constance Mayer
1775-1821
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
Élisabeth Chaplin
A life's worth of paintings dedicated to Florence
1890-1982
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
Félix Nadar
Photographer, novelist... balloonist?
1820-1910
Fernand Henri Léger
Cubism for the common man
1881-1955
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 absinth
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
A French abbess creates the first female-authored encyclopedia
1130-1195
Hippolyte Bayard
The second person to invent photography
1801-1887
Jacques-Louis David
Virtuoso painter, political chameleon, complete jerk
1748-1825
Jean Metzinger
The third cubist
1883-1956
Jean-Antoine Watteau
1684-1721
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Guardian of the old ways
1780-1867
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Nudes teach you everything you need to know (to paint landscapes)
1796-1875
Jean-François Millet
A peasant I was born, and a peasant I will die
1814-1875
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
We're all young and hot — let's make out
1732-1806
Jean-Léon Gérôme
A merciless teacher trains 2000 young artists
1824-1904
Joseph Ducreux
Renaissance painter wins the internet
1735-1802
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
Visionary promoter of photography
1787-1851
Louise Moillon
The original peaches-as-butts emoji
1610-1696
Madeleine Lemaire
1845-1928
Marcel Duchamp
Giving art a cheerful middle finger
1887-1968
Marguerite Gérard
1761-1837
Arc de Triomphe
1806-1836
Arenas of Lutetia
100 CE
Basilica of St Denis
Abbot Suger (1135 rebuild), 475 CE-1144
Château de Chenonceau
1514-1522
Louvre Pyramid
I.M. Pei, 1984-1989
Maison Carrée
2 CE
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