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French male 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.
  • Pierre LescotPierre Lescot was born in Paris during the early 1500s. He did not emerge from a family of masons or builders with practical experience.
  • 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 MonetOn the 14th of November 1840, Oscar-Claude Monet was born on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte in Paris. His family moved to Le Havre four years later when…
  • 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.
  • François BouchotFrançois Bouchot entered the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris during a period of intense artistic competition. His primary instructors included Jean-Baptiste…
  • Édouard ManetÉdouard Manet was born in Paris on the 23rd of January 1832. He entered a world of privilege within an ancestral mansion on the Rue des Petits Augustins.
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was born on the 30th of August 1748 into a prosperous family in Paris. When he was about nine years old, his father died in a duel.
  • Jean-Baptiste DebretJean-Baptiste Debret was born on the 18th of April 1768 in Paris. He studied at the French Academy of Fine Arts under Jacques-Louis David, a great painter…
  • 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.
  • Jean ClouetThe year 1499 holds a document regarding the succession of Simon Marmion, a painter from Flanders. This record mentions two minor children named Janet and…
  • Antoine-Jean GrosAntoine-Jean Gros entered the world on the 16th of March 1771 in Paris. His father Jean-Antoine Gros worked as a miniature painter while his mother…
  • François ClouetFrançois Clouet arrived in the world within the walls of Tours, born to Jean Clouet. His father was a court painter native to the Southern Netherlands and…
  • Horace VernetÉmile Jean-Horace Vernet entered the world on the 30th of June 1789 inside the Paris Louvre. His parents stayed there during the French Revolution to house…
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born on the 29th of August 1780 in Montauban, France. He grew up as the first of seven children to Joseph Ingres and Anne…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • François GérardFrançois Pascal Simon Gérard entered the world on the 4th of May 1770 in Rome. His father held a post within the house of the French ambassador there.
  • 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.