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N° 1 Nadia Benois Documented profile
Nadia Benois (1896–1975), born Nadejda Leontievna Benois in Saint Petersburg, received her artistic training there before settling in England in 1920. The daughter of the architect L…
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N° 2 Narcisse Virgilio Díaz Documented profile
Narcisse Díaz de la Peña first trained in a porcelain factory, entering an apprenticeship in 1822, then studied with the painter Souchon and by copying works in the Louvre. Accepted…
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N° 3 Norbert Bisky Documented profile
Norbert Bisky brings the visual legacy of his childhood in East Germany into dialogue with contemporary upheavals. Born in Leipzig in 1970, he studied in Berlin from 1994 to 1999, no…
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N° 4 Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem Documented profile
Alongside Jan Both and Jan Asselijn, Nicolaes Berchem is associated with the second generation of Dutch Italianate landscape painters. He created idealised landscapes in which figure…
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N° 5 Nicola De Maria Documented profile
Italian artist and painter Nicola De Maria, born in 1954 in Foglianise, lives and works in Turin. In Regno dei Fiore, dated 1983, watercolour and ink on paper — 23 × 27.5 cm — are ac…
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N° 6 Nicolaes Molenaer Documented profile
Klaes Molenaer, also known by the first names Nicolaes or Claes, was active as a painter in Haarlem from 1644 to 1676. The brother of painters Jan Miense and Bartholomeus Molenaer, h…
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N° 7 Nedko Solakov Documented profile
Nedko Solakov builds narratives with words as much as with images and objects. Born in Bulgaria in 1957 and trained in Sofia and Antwerp, he developed work critically engaging with h…
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N° 8 Nadia Léger Documented profile
Nadia Khodossievitch Léger (1904–1982) was a painter of Belarusian origin whose career crossed several centres of the European avant-garde. Trained in Smolensk in an environment shap…
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N° 9 Nam June Paik Documented profile
Associated with video art, American artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006) approaches electronic media from a background in music and through experiments in which sound, image and technica…
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N° 10 Nasser Ovissi Documented profile
Nasser Ovissi, born in Tehran in 1934, brings Persian visual traditions into dialogue with a modern pictorial language. He graduated in law and political science from the University…
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N° 11 Natalia Goncharova Documented profile
Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova (1881–1962), also known as Natalia Goncharova and Nathalie Gontcharova, pursued a path through several strands of modern Russian painting and also worke…
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N° 12 Nathalie Chabrier Documented profile
The French painter, lithographer and illustrator Nathalie Chabrier, born in Paris in 1932, initially works in stained glass, tapestry, ceramics and mural painting. This practice acro…
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N° 13 Nicolaes Maes Documented profile
Nicolas Maes’s work moves successively from religious scenes to genre scenes, then to portraiture, in which he tended to specialise from around 1660. In works from his early period,…
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N° 14 Nicolas Lancret Documented profile
Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743), born and deceased in Paris, trained in Pierre Dulin’s studio and subsequently with Claude Gillot. Following Watteau, he painted scenes of sociability and…
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N° 15 Norbert Kricke Documented profile
Norbert Kricke (1922–1984), a German sculptor, pursued a practice of drawing on paper, which the sales catalogue places throughout his life, alongside his spatial sculptures made of…
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N° 16 Nicolas de Staël Documented profile
The works listed under the name Nicolas de Staël by the Art Institute of Chicago span several fields, from abstract compositions to the nude, as well as a work associated with the po…
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N° 17 Nicolas de Largillière Documented profile
The French painter Nicolas de Largillierre (1656–1746) is also referred to in the form Nicolas de Largillierre. A self-portrait listed under the title *Self-Portrait* is dated to aro…
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N° 18 Natalia Dumitresco Documented profile
Natalia Dumitresco (Bucharest, 1915 – Chars, 1997) was a Romanian painter and sculptor. She trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest and married Alexandre Istrati in 1939. Th…
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N° 19 Nicolas Bernard Lépicié Documented profile
The French painter Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié lived from 1735 to 1784 and trained with the engraver François Bernard Lépicié and Carle van Loo. He subsequently taught artists including…
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N° 20 Nikos Kessanlis Documented profile
Nikos Kessanlis (1930–2004), born in Thessaloniki and deceased in Athens, progressively expanded the means of producing an image. He trained with Nikos Nikolaou, among others, then s…
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N° 21 Noël Dolla Documented profile
Noël Dolla, born in 1945, turns everyday materials into instruments for questioning painting. In Croix, made in 1973 and held by the Centre Pompidou, four squares of canvas painted i…
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N° 22 Naum Gabo Documented profile
Naum Gabo (1890–1977), born Naum Pevsner in the Russian Empire, was a leading figure in Constructivism. Studies in science and engineering in Munich preceded his first constructions,…
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N° 23 Neo Rauch Documented profile
Neo Rauch, born in Leipzig in 1960, studied painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst with Arno Rink and subsequently Bernhard Heisig, completing his training in 1990. He l…
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N° 24 Nicolae Vermont Documented profile
Nicolae Vermont was a Romanian artist trained by Theodor Aman in Bucharest and subsequently at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. He began contributing to the magazine Universul in 188…
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N° 25 Nicolas Toussaint Charlet Documented profile
The French painter and printmaker Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet first came to notice through the lithograph La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas, presented as one of his earliest works and a…
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N° 26 Nikolay Diulgheroff Documented profile
Born in Bulgaria, Nicolay Diulgheroff (1901–1982) developed a practice in Turin spanning painting, architecture and the applied arts. He studied in Vienna, Dresden and at the Bauhaus…
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N° 27 Naftali Bezem Documented profile
Born in Essen in 1924, Naftali Bezem moved to Palestine in 1939 with Youth Aliyah. He studied at Jerusalem's Bezalel School of Art, where he later taught, and worked in Paris between…
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N° 28 Narcisse Berchère Documented profile
Narcisse Berchère was a French painter specialising in Orientalist landscapes. A pupil of Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond at the École des beaux-arts in Paris, he made his Salon debut in…
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N° 29 Natale Schiavoni Documented profile
Natale Schiavoni (1777–1858) trained in Venice and Florence before working at the Viennese court between 1816 and 1821. Appreciated for portraits on ivory and parchment, he later stu…
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N° 30 Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm Documented profile
Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm renewed Vietnamese painting through village traditions, dance and legendary narratives. Entering the Indochina School of Fine Arts in 1941, he developed sustained in…
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N° 31 Nikifor Krynicki Documented profile
Nikifor Krynicki, also called Epifaniusz Drowniak, was a Lemko painter associated with naive art. Little recognised for much of his life, he gained wider attention only later. He wor…
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N° 32 Nino Longobardi Documented profile
Born in Naples in 1953, Nino Longobardi trained himself through contact with artists, critics and gallery owners. Exchanges with Carlo Alfano and Joseph Beuys, alongside his lasting…
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N° 33 Norbert Tadeusz Documented profile
German figurative painter Norbert Tadeusz was born in Dortmund in 1940 and died in Düsseldorf in 2011. He studied painting at the Werkkunstschule in Dortmund with Gustav Deppe from 1…
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N° 34 Narcisse Guilbert Documented profile
Narcisse Guilbert (1878–1942) was a painter associated with the Rouen School. He received his earliest instruction from Joseph Delattre and studied under Philippe Zacharie at the art…
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N° 35 Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom Documented profile
Dutch landscape painter Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom (1805–1880) is associated with a lot titled *Eisvergnügen im Morgenlicht*. It is described as an oil on wood, signed lower left a…
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N° 36 Nicolaas Warb Documented profile
Nicolaas Warb was the pseudonym of Sophie Warburg, a Dutch artist who lived from 1906 to 1957. Settling in Paris in 1929, she came into contact with Georges Vantongerloo in 1939 and…
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N° 37 Nicolas-Antoine Taunay Documented profile
Nicolas Antoine Taunay was born in Paris in 1755 and died there in 1830. Trained by Lépicié, Brenet and Casanova, he subsequently held a scholarship in Rome. His career later connect…
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N° 38 Nicolas Baudesson Documented profile
Nicolas Baudesson was a seventeenth-century French painter whose practice focused on still life and flower painting. Born in Troyes on 6 December 1611, he died in Paris on 4 Septembe…
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N° 39 Nicolas François Octave Tassaert Documented profile
Octave Tassaert painted bohemian life, social hardship and sentimental stories while also working in lithography and illustration. His small cabinet pictures were intended for a circ…
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N° 40 Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet Documented profile
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet (1715–1793) was a French painter best known for his views of Paris and the Seine. Trained by his father, he exhibited at the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1…
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N° 41 Nicolas Poussin Documented profile
Nicolas Poussin, born in Les Andelys in 1594 and deceased in Rome in 1665, was a French painter whose career unfolded mainly in Italy. Settling in Rome in 1624, he studied ancient re…
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N° 42 Noel Leaver Documented profile
Noel Harry Leaver (1889–1951) grew up in Burnley, where his family settled a few months after his birth in Yorkshire. He won several prizes while studying at the Royal College of Art…
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N° 43 Norbert Goeneutte Documented profile
Born in Paris, Norbert Gœneutte (1854–1894) entered the École des beaux-arts in 1872, studying with Isidore Pils and then Henri Lehmann. Marcellin Desboutin introduced him to etching…
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N° 44 Norman Bluhm Documented profile
Norman Bluhm was an American painter whose career connected architecture, European experience and gestural abstraction. He studied under Mies van der Rohe, but abandoned architecture…
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N° 45 Nancy Graves Documented profile
The American artist Nancy Graves (1939–1995), active in several media and also known as Nancy Stevenson Graves, developed a body of work encompassing sculptural forms as well as work…
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N° 46 Nancy Spero Documented profile
Nancy Spero’s work makes the image a site for taking a stand: it responds to the violence of war and, from 1974 onwards, devotes itself to representing women and advocating for their…
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N° 47 Napoleone Angiolini Documented profile
Napoleone Angiolini (1797–1871) was an Italian painter whose career was closely connected with Bologna. He trained at the city’s Academy of Fine Arts and received a scholarship in 18…
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N° 48 Narciso Debourg Documented profile
Narciso Debourg trained in Caracas before moving to Paris in 1949 and helping establish Los Disidentes the following year. Cubes and cylinders repeated across a support, often cut di…
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N° 49 Nathalie Schultheiss Documented profile
German painter Natalie Schultheiss is also listed as Natalie Schultheiß and Nathalie Schultheiß. The variants Natalie Schultheiss-Hampel and Natalie Hampel are also among the names a…
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N° 50 Nathan Grunsweigh Documented profile
Born in Krakow in 1880, Nathan Grunsweigh was a painter associated with the School of Paris. He settled in France before the First World War and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendan…
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N° 51 Nestor Cambier Documented profile
Portraiture links the different stages of the career of Nestor Cambier, a Belgian painter and draughtsman born in Couillet in 1879. At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he…
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N° 52 Nicaise de Keyser Documented profile
Nicaise de Keyser (1813–1887), a Belgian painter associated with Romanticism, works in history painting, portraiture and religious subjects. In The Massacre of the Innocents (1855),…
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N° 53 Niccolò Cassana Documented profile
Nicolò Cassana was a portrait painter active in the circle of Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici. His Self-Portrait at the Accademia Tadini in Lovere, dated between 1690 and 1710, te…
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N° 54 Nicholas Matthews Condy Documented profile
The British painter Nicholas Matthews Condy, born in Plymouth in 1816, died in that city on 20 May 1851. He is associated with marine painting and numerous views of the Thames. His f…
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N° 55 Niclas Lafrensen Documented profile
Niclas Lafrensen the Younger, known in France as Nicolas Lavreince or Lavrince, was a Swedish artist born and deceased in Stockholm, in 1737 and 1807. Trained by his father, the mini…
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N° 56 Nicola Carrino Documented profile
Born in Taranto in 1932, Nicola Carrino develops a sculptural practice centred on form and space; he dies in 2018. His work is presented in a first solo exhibition when he is barely…
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N° 57 Nicolas-Auguste Galimard Documented profile
Nicolas-Auguste Galimard, generally known as Auguste Galimard, was born in Paris in 1813 and died in 1880. Trained by his painter uncles and subsequently in Ingres's studio, he pursu…
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N° 58 Nicolas Colombel Documented profile
Nicolas Colombel’s career links Parisian training, Roman artistic circles and commissions from the French monarchy. Trained in Pierre Sève’s studio, he spent time in Rome, joining th…
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N° 59 Nicolas Krycevsky Documented profile
Nicolas Krycevsky’s career began with training between Kyiv and Prague: after studying at the University of Kyiv, he earned a diploma from the Prague School of Art Industry. Settling…
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N° 60 Nicolas Vleughels Documented profile
Nicolas Vleughels (1668–1737), also known as Vleugels, was a French painter born in Paris who died in Rome. The son of Flemish portraitist Philippe Vleughels, he trained with Pierre…
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N° 61 Nicolaus Berkhout Documented profile
Nicolaus Berkhout, a Dutch painter born in 1813, devoted his work to landscape and genre scenes. After working in Hilversum and Amsterdam, he continued his career in Germany, notably…
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N° 62 Nikolaus Bruno Belau Documented profile
Nikolaus Bruno Bellan, also known as Belau, was a German painter and draughtsman active during the first half of the eighteenth century. Documented works reveal different uses of dra…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026