Curated category
19th-century French male artists
- Joseph-Noël SylvestreJoseph-Noël Sylvestre arrived in the world on the 24th of June 1847. He entered life within the city of Béziers located in South-West France.
- Henri MatisseOn New Year's Eve in 1869, Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was born into a wealthy grain merchant family in Le Cateau-Cambrésis.
- François BouchotFrançois Bouchot entered the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris during a period of intense artistic competition. His primary instructors included Jean-Baptiste…
- Victor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, a city in eastern France. His father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo served as a general…
- Édouard CibotFrançois Barthélemy Michel Édouard Cibot was born in Paris during the year 1799. He studied under two specific masters named Guérin and Picot within the city…
- Eugène DelacroixEugène Delacroix was born on the 26th of April 1798 at Charenton-Saint-Maurice in Seine, near Paris. His mother Victoire Oeben was the daughter of a…
- Gustave MoreauGustave Moreau was born on the 6th of April 1826 in Paris into a cultured, upper-middle-class family. His father Louis Jean Marie Moreu worked as an…
- Henri Félix Emmanuel PhilippoteauxHenri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux entered the studio of Léon Cogniet in Paris during the early 1830s. He studied under this master while preparing for his…
- 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.
- Charles de SteubenCharles de Steuben stood at the ducal court in Weimar as a fourteen-year-old Page during the summer of 1802. He had traveled from Saint Petersburg with Grand…
- Gustave DoréOn the 6th of January 1832, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was born in Strasbourg. At age fifteen, he began working as a caricaturist for Le journal pour…
- Paul DelarochePaul Delaroche entered the world on the 17th of July 1797 in Paris. He was born into a family deeply embedded in the art trade as dealers, collectors, and…
- Louis Carrogis CarmontelleLouis Carrogis Carmontelle was born in Paris on the 15th of August 1717. His father worked as a bootmaker, placing the family in modest circumstances.