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Jean Berger Documented profileCanada
Jean Berger, born near Lyon around 1681, was a French painter active in New France in the early eighteenth century. He arrived in Quebec as a soldier between 1700 and 1704. In 1706 h…
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Jean Bertholle Documented profileFrance
Jean Bertholle, a French painter born in Dijon in 1909 and who died in Paris in 1996, moved through several approaches to painting: his initially figurative work turned towards a sen…
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Jean-Bertrand Pégot-Ogier Documented profileFrance
Painter and racing cyclist, Jean-Bertrand Pégot-Ogier is also listed as Jean-Bertrand Alexis Pégot-Ogier and Jean Pégot-Ogier; in sport, he is known as Jean Pégot. He is associated w…
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Jean Carzou Documented profileFrance
Jean Carzou (1907–2000) was the professional name of Karnik Zouloumian, who was born in Aleppo. After attending the French lycée in Cairo, a scholarship from the Armenian community e…
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Jean-Charles Blais Documented profileFrance
Jean-Charles Blais came to prominence in the early 1980s with paintings made on reclaimed materials, particularly torn-down posters. Cardboard, cans, drums and newspaper pages are am…
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Jean Charles Duval Documented profileFrance
French painter, draughtsman and decorator, Jean-Charles Duval was born in Paris on 3 April 1880 and died there on 11 December 1963. The biographical entry describes him as an Orienta…
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Jean Chevolleau Documented profileFrance
Born in La Roche-sur-Yon in 1924 and died in Fontenay-le-Comte in 1996, Jean Chevolleau was a painter whose work addressed a range of subjects: portraits, nudes, horses, landscapes a…
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Jean Cluseau-Lanauve Documented profileFrance
Jean Cluseau-Lanauve (1914–1997) studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1933 to 1937, notably under André Devambez, and trained in lithography. Drawing sustained his pract…
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Jean Cocteau Documented profileFrance
Poet, painter, draughtsman, playwright and filmmaker, Jean Cocteau moved across several forms of expression throughout a career in which poetry stood alongside theatre, ballet and th…
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Jean Couty Documented profileFrance
Jean Couty, a French painter born in Saint-Rambert-l’Île-Barbe in 1907 and who died in Lyon in 1991, initially trained in architecture. In 1925, he entered the class of Sainte-Marie…
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Jean de Botton Documented profileFrance
Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Jean de Botton (1898–1978) combined his studies in painting and sculpture with an interest in fresco. He exhibited at the Salon des Indé…
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Jean Degottex Documented profileFrance
The French abstract painter Jean Degottex (1918–1988) turned to abstraction from 1948 onwards and developed a gestural form of painting. After leaving school at the age of fifteen, h…
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Jean Delville Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter Jean Delville, born in Leuven in 1867 as Jean Libert, situated his practice within Symbolism while extending it through poetry, writing and art theory. He trained…
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Jean Dewasne Documented profileFrance
Jean Dewasne (1921–1999), a French painter, lithographer and sculptor, approached abstraction as a field for technical as well as formal experimentation. Following a first exhibition…
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Jean Dubuffet Documented profileFrance
The career of Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), born in Le Havre and died in Paris, is marked by several returns to artistic practice, interspersed with periods devoted to commerce. After t…
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Jean Dufy Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jean Dufy, born in Le Havre and deceased in Boussay, pursued a career that brought painting together with the decorative arts. After working for an import house de…
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Jean Fautrier Documented profileFrance
A painter, printmaker and sculptor, Jean Fautrier works the material in thick layers in the Otages series: Spanish white, oil and glue form a precisely documented pictorial process.…
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Jean Fous Documented profileFrance
Jean Fous (1901–1971), a French naïve painter born in Paris and deceased in L’Union, near Toulouse, chose popular festivities, village weddings and, with particular attention, flea m…
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Jean-François de Troy Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris in 1679, Jean-François de Troy (1679–1752) pursues a career that takes him from his training in Italy to directing the Académie de France in Rome. He is the son of the…
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Jean-Gabriel Domergue Documented profileFrance
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889–1962), a French painter, is identified as a specialist in portraits of Parisian women. Works listed by the Art Institute of Chicago include Sensibility, d…
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Jean-Guillaume Carlier Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jean-Guillaume Carlier (1638–1675) belonged to the artistic community of seventeenth-century Liège. He trained with Bertholet Flémal, whom he accompanied to Paris in 1670, and worked…
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Jean Hugo Documented profileFrance
The French painter, designer, illustrator and writer Jean Hugo (Jean Victor-Hugo, 1894–1984) developed a practice spanning the visual arts, the stage, cinema and books. His education…
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Jean-Jacques Deyrolle Documented profileFrance
The French painter, illustrator and lithographer Jean Deyrolle is distinguished by a career marked by the transition from figuration to its abandonment: initially committed to a synt…
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Jean-Jacques Gailliard Documented profileBelgium
Jean-Jacques Gailliard (1890–1976), a Belgian artist born in Brussels, worked in painting, drawing and printmaking. His stay in Paris from 1920 to 1924 coincided with appearances at…
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Jean-Jacques Morvan Documented profileFrance
French painter Jean-Jacques Morvan, born in Paris in 1928 and deceased in 2005, also works as an actor, journalist, critic and singer-songwriter. After entering the École nationale s…
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Jean Jansem Documented profileFrance
Born in 1920 and deceased in 2013, Jean Jansem trained in Paris from 1936 under Maurice Brianchon, Raymond Legueult and Roland Oudot at the École des arts décoratifs, where he receiv…
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Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld Documented profileFrance
Born in Carpentras, near Nîmes, Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (1758–1846) is placed by the National Gallery in London in the first generation of Neoclassical landscape painters, associa…
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Jean Launois Documented profileFrance
Born in Les Sables-d’Olonne in 1898, Jean Launois was a French painter and illustrator whose work was closely connected with Algiers. He depicted, among others, the inhabitants and n…
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Jean Leppien Documented profileGermany · France
Jean Leppien’s painting turned to abstraction at an early stage: he produced his first abstract painting in 1927. The analysis of colour and the study of geometric forms form the cor…
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Jean Leyssenne Documented profileFrance
Jean Leyssenne (1921–2009), whose origins lay in the Corrèze, pursued a military career and subsequently worked as an engineer while continuing to paint from his youth. Based in Anto…
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Jean-Louis Forain Documented profileFrance
Jean-Louis Forain, a French artist born in 1852 and deceased in 1931, developed a practice in which illustration went hand in hand with printmaking. In 1876, he began supplying drawi…
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Jean Louis Marcel Cosson Documented profileFrance
Jean Louis Marcel Cosson (1878–1956), generally known as Marcel Cosson, was a French painter born in Bordeaux who died in Paris. He exhibited at the Salon des artistes français, beco…
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Jean Lurçat Documented profileFrance
Born in 1892 and died in 1966, Jean Lurçat was a French artist whose fields of work include tapestry, painting and ceramics. Among the works listed by the Art Institute of Chicago ar…
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Jean-Marc Nattier Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jean-Marc Nattier, born and died in Paris (1685–1766), is particularly known for his portraits of women, especially allegorical portraits in which court ladies tak…
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Jean Marchand Documented profileFrance
Jean Hippolyte Marchand, also known as Jean Marchand and J. H. Marchand, trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Léon Bonnat’s studio from 1902 to 1906. He is also described as a pupi…
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Jean-Marie Calmettes Documented profileFrance
Born in Wissous, Jean-Marie Calmettes (1918–2007) was a French painter and sculptor whose career accompanied the post-war developments of the School of Paris. He first became known f…
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Jean Messagier Documented profileFrance
Jean Messagier (1920–1999), a French artist, is documented here by a work offered for sale. Titled « Abstrakte Komposition », this watercolour is signed at the lower right and measur…
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Jean Metzinger Documented profileFrance
Born in Nantes in 1883 and died in Paris in 1956, Jean Metzinger moved through several artistic movements before becoming one of the artists associated with Cubism. In 1900, he studi…
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Jean-Michel Atlan Documented profileFrance
Jean-Michel Atlan, who also signs simply “Atlan”, was a painter and poet born in Constantine, Algeria, and who died in Paris. Born into a Jewish-Berber family, he arrived in Paris in…
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Jean-Michel Folon Documented profileBelgium
From ink drawings to illustrated books, television title sequences and works in bronze, stained glass or ceramics, Jean-Michel Folon worked across a range of media. His career thus b…
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Jean-Paul Jérôme Documented profileCanada
Jean-Paul Jérôme (1928–2004) contributed to the renewal of abstraction in Quebec. He studied at Montreal’s École des beaux-arts from 1945 to 1952, then learned fresco techniques with…
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Jean Philippe Sarazin Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jean-Philippe Sarazin is associated with landscape works documented in collections and auction records. The Albertina’s online collection database lists a work tit…
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Jean-Pierre Moynet Documented profileFrance
The French painter, decorator and lithographer Jean-Pierre Moynet was born in Paris in 1819 and died there in 1876. He was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. In 1858, he accompanied Alexandre…
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Jean-Pierre Pincemin Documented profileFrance
Before becoming an artist, Jean-Pierre Pincemin works as a lathe operator, particularly in the precision engineering industry. From 1967, encouraged by the gallery owner Jean Fournie…
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Jean-Pierre Yvaral Documented profileFrance
Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1934–2002), known as Yvaral, is the son of Victor Vasarely and adopts an artist’s name that helps him gain recognition in his own right. He trains in graphic ar…
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Jean Puy Documented profileFrance
French painter born and deceased in Roanne, Jean Puy takes part in the emergence of Fauvism while developing a body of work that later moves away from the avant-garde and turns towar…
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Jean Raoux Documented profileCountry to be documented
Portraits of the aristocracy and the world of entertainment, historical and religious subjects, genre scenes in the Dutch manner: Jean Raoux’s work spans a range of fields. Trained i…
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Jean Revol Documented profileFrance
Jean Revol, a French painter, printmaker, essayist and writer born in Lyon in 1929 and deceased in 2012, pursued artistic creation alongside reflection on art. He began drawing and p…
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Jean Rigaud Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jean Rigaud, born in Bordeaux in 1912 and deceased in Paris in 1999, developed a body of work devoted to landscapes and still lifes, which the biographical source…
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Jean-Robert Ango Documented profileFrance
Jean-Robert Ango, sometimes referred to as Hannibal Roberti, habitually signed his drawings “H. Roberti”, the H referring to his nickname. According to Millon, he learned to draw in…
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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