Curated category
20th-century French painters
- 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.
- Edgar DegasEdgar Degas was born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas on the 19th of July 1834 in Paris, France. He entered the Lycée Louis-le-Grand at age eleven and graduated…
- Claude MonetClaude Monet was born on the 14th of November 1840, on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte in Paris, and died on the 5th of December 1926, having spent the…
- Paul CézannePaul Cézanne was born on the 19th of January 1839 at 28 rue de l'Opéra in Aix-en-Provence. His father Louis-Auguste Cézanne co-founded a banking firm called…
- Henri MatisseOn New Year's Eve in 1869, Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was born into a wealthy grain merchant family in Le Cateau-Cambrésis.
- Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, on the 25th of February 1841. His father Léonard Renoir worked as a tailor with modest means.
- Marcel DuchampHenri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was born on the 28th of July 1887 in Rouen, France. He grew up in a household where art was not merely a hobby but a family…
- Paul GauguinEugène Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris on the 7th of June 1848, amidst the revolutionary upheavals that swept across Europe.
- Marc ChagallIn 1887, Moishe Shagal was born into a Jewish family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk. The town held about 66,000 people at that time.
- Jean CocteauJean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, on the 5th of July 1889. His father Georges died by suicide when Jean was nine…
- 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.
- Wassily KandinskyIn 1889, a twenty-three-year-old law student named Wassily Kandinsky joined an ethnographic research group traveling to the Vologda region north of Moscow.
- Jean-Léon GérômeJean-Léon Gérôme was born on the 11th of May 1824 in Vesoul, a town in the Haute-Saône region of France. He received his first drawing lessons from…