Curated category
19th-century French male artists
- Joseph-Noël SylvestreJoseph-Noël Sylvestre was born on the 24th of June 1847 in Béziers, a city in the South-West of France that would send him on a long journey toward the grand…
- Edgar DegasEdgar Degas was born on the 19th of July 1834 in Paris, under the full name Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas. He later adopted the simpler spelling himself, a…
- Paul CézannePaul Cézanne was born on the 19th of January 1839 at 28 rue de l'Opéra in Aix-en-Provence, a city he would never truly leave behind.
- Henri MatisseHenri Émile Benoît Matisse did not pick up a paintbrush until he was nineteen years old. He had been trained as a lawyer, and was working as a court…
- Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir painted the portrait of the composer Richard Wagner in just thirty-five minutes. It was the 15th of January 1882, and Wagner received…
- François BouchotFrançois Bouchot died on the 7th of February 1842 with paintbrushes in hand, mid-commission. He had been preparing murals for a new chapel at Luxembourg…
- Édouard ManetEdouard Manet was born in Paris on the 23rd of January 1832, into a household where his father was a French judge who had mapped out a clear future: law…
- Victor HugoVictor Hugo died on the 22nd of May 1885, at 50 Avenue Victor Hugo in Paris. He was 83 years old, and he died of pneumonia.
- Paul GauguinPaul Gauguin was born in Paris on the 7th of June 1848, in the middle of a year when revolutions were sweeping across Europe.
- Édouard CibotÉdouard Cibot spent the first half of his long career painting scenes from sacred history for the churches of Paris, then, around 1863, he walked away from…
- Eugène DelacroixEugène Delacroix once heard the poet and critic Baudelaire describe him this way: "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to…
- Antoine-Alphonse MontfortAntoine-Alphonse Montfort was born in Paris on the 3rd of April 1802. In his mid-twenties, he shipped out of France with an unusual assignment: to serve as…
- Gustave MoreauGustave Moreau left instructions that his death on the 18th of April 1898 was not to be announced in the press. His funeral was to be small and simple.
- Henri Félix Emmanuel PhilippoteauxHenri Felix Emmanuel Philippoteaux was born in Paris on the 3rd of April 1815, and by the time he died there on the 8th of November 1884, he had spent a…
- Édouard DetailleJean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille entered the world on the 5th of October 1848 in Paris. He grew up in Picardy within a prosperous military family.
- Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was born in Paris on the 30th of August 1748, into a world of powdered wigs, gilded ceilings, and a painting style built on prettiness.
- Jean-Baptiste DebretJean-Baptiste Debret arrived in Rio de Janeiro in March 1816 with a group of Bonapartist artists and craftsmen who had just crossed the Atlantic on an…
- Antoine-Jean GrosAntoine-Jean Gros was born in Paris on the 16th of March 1771, the son of two painters, in a city on the edge of revolution.
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres died at eighty-six on the 14th of January 1867, in his apartment on the Quai Voltaire in Paris, and his studio held more than…
- Jean-Léon GérômeJean-Léon Gérôme was born on the 11th of May 1824 in Vesoul, a small town in the Haute-Saône region of France, and by 1880 he had become arguably the most…
- Horace VernetHorace Vernet was born on the 30th of June 1789 inside the Paris Louvre itself, while his parents sheltered there during the French Revolution.
- Charles de SteubenCharles de Steuben stood before the Salon de Paris in 1812 and unveiled a canvas of Peter the Great fighting a storm on Lake Ladoga.
- Gustave DoréGustave Doré created over 10,000 illustrations across his lifetime, and at the peak of his career he kept some 40 block-cutters employed just to translate…
- Paul DelarochePaul Delaroche painted a man being led to his death while an archbishop stretched his arms from a prison window to bless him.
- Louis Carrogis CarmontelleLouis Carrogis Carmontelle was a man who could not be contained by a single art form. Born on the 15th of August 1717 in Paris, the son of a bootmaker, he…
- François GérardFrançois Pascal Simon Gérard was known across Europe by a single phrase: the painter of kings, the king of painters. Born in Rome on the 4th of May 1770, the…